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JAPAN'S ECC TO TEACH TRADITIONAL COMEDY PERFORMANCES IN ENGLISH.
TOKYO, April 1 Asia Pulse - The foreign language school ECC will begin a new course in Osaka this month on how to perform rakugo, or traditional Japanese comedy routines, in English.
Kaishi Katsura, a rakugo performer who pioneered the English-language version of the art performance, will teach the class.
The objective of the course is for students to have fun while learning English-language pronunciation, gestures and timing of speech.
"Rakugo, in which we listen with our ears and imitate with our mouths, is similar to foreign-language education," says ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, JAPAN'S ECC TO TEACH TRADITIONAL COMEDY PERFORMANCES IN ENGLISH.