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From http://hamptonroads.com/2008/12/portsmouth-program-teaches-kids-language-through-song

Portsmouth program teaches kids language through song
By Cheryl Ross
December 29, 2008

Since September, kindergartners, first- and second -graders at Douglass Park and two of the city’s other elementary schools have participated in Music Speaks, a pilot program that aims to introduce them to nine languages.

School leaders say it is probably the first time that some of Portsmouth’s younger elementary school kids are learning foreign languages, even if it’s just the basics, in a school-division -sponsored program.

Read the entire article and view accompanying video footage at http://hamptonroads.com/2008/12/portsmouth-program-teaches-kids-language-through-song .

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