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The MC Hammer School of English

This cute little video is from an English teacher in Taiwan who came up with a way to teach his kids English... the MC Hammer way. We wish school was this fun for us, and hopefully the clip will inspire all TEFL teachers out there. From Daryl Caesar:The... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Thu, Oct 11 2007

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