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If Bollywood Can Do Literacy, Why Not Hollywood
Why shouldn't Hollywood teach our kids to read? Someone might as well do it! India has a very interesting twist on this, with Brij Kothari's brilliant same language subtitling. It started as an adult literacy project called Desi Lassi: since nearly everyone knows the lyrics to the Bollywood movie songs, Brij applied same-language subtitling to ...
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July 22, 2008