Word: speaks
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That left more than 6,000,000 illiterates (30% of the nation) to be taught, and many of them are Tarascan, Mayan, and Otomi Indians who speak only their own languages. To educate them, the government is now using a new hotly disputed technique; they are first taught to read & write in their native dialects, then are taught Spanish. Not for another year, and only after reports are in on a similar UNESCO pilot-project in Haiti, will educators decide just how good this scheme...
...Army taught thousands of G.I.s-to speak foreign languages-even "unspeakable" ones like Thai. Its secret weapon was a phonograph with made-to-order records. Old-style language teachers scoffed at the Army method, even after the Army method worked. It wasn't the records that brought results; they claimed; it was the intensive, purposeful way the G.I.s studied, and the small-size classes they studied in. But when the Army released the records for civilian use, educators were among those who scrambled to buy them...
...voice of Henry Lee Smith Jr. Gabby, chubby Smith, 33, was the top Army man in developing the records, now heads the State Department's language school in Washington. With the aid of his own records, he has on occasion taught ten foreign languages he-himself cannot speak...
...Morgan spent most of the next 23 years on the Riviera. When she returned to her native Japan in 1938, the nationalist press greeted her return with scorn. "Mme. Yuki," one paper snorted, "the Japanese who doesn't speak Japanese." Last week, however, all Japan was mooning over the tale of the little geisha who years ago had first snubbed and then snared the rich American. 0-Yuki's story had run an unprecedented 260 installments in three newspapers. The text was supported by pictorial tearjerkers, such as George and O-Yuki sleeping on Japanese-style mats...
Johnson found the door shut at New York's City College, Eisler at the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin (Marzani was also banned at Wisconsin). Howard Fast tried to speak on four campuses (Columbia, Brooklyn, City College and Hunter College) before a fifth, New York University...