How many of us had thought of this before—learning a language through sms!  The BBC World Service Trust, an international charity arm of the broadcaster is running this service in Bangladesh one of Asia’s poorest nations. Mobile phone services began in Bangladesh just over a decade ago and there are more than 50.4million users.
The service offers 250 audio and SMS lessons at different levels. Each lesson is a three-minute phone call, costing about 3 taka. Basic lessons involve listening to and repeating simple dialogue like: “What do you do?” “I work in IT, what about you?” “I’m a student.” “That’s nice.” Another is devoted to differentiating vowel sounds like those in ship and sheep or leaf and live.
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