Mitsuya Goto can tell any aspiring student how to learn English. “You really have to want to,” he might say, and “you must use any tool available to you.”
In his case, when he was still a high-school student his family was bombed out of their home in Nagoya. “I determined that I would grab the first opportunity to go to the United States.
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