Posted by: "Margaret Orleans"
tommysibo@... ?tommysibo
Sat Oct?7,?009 8:56 am (PDT)
Thanks for sharing that, Dave. It's certainly true that the students at the women's university where I teach all seem to be aware of key phrases from his speeches, and even try to incorporate them in their essays.
--- On Fri, 10/16/09, dk <davekees1@gmail. com> wrote:
> The New York Times is reporting on a
> new phenomena in Japan, Obama, the
> English teacher in Japan.
>
>
?Yes, studying US presidential speeches seems to be popular here in China, too.?I was walking on a popular hillside the other day when I was passed by a cyclist who was listening to something on a speaker he was wearing.?It caught my ear immediately because it was in English, and the voice seemed familiar.?In a moment, I realized it was not Obama, as I had first thought, but former President Bush giving his post-911 speech!?That was an eerie moment in my normally Chinese-saturated life.?Students later told me that that speech is commonly included in English-language learning materials.
?Sally Stephenson
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