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Thursday, January 7, 2016
Shakespeare Online in English in China - the Shanghai Daily
The British Council is launching a six-week course on Shakespeare for non-native speakers who are trying to improve their language skills while learning more about the prolific author’s life and work. The course, available online on FutureLearn website, is entirely free for participants. Shakespeare Lives is supporting English language learning in China. Shakespeare’s 37 plays and 154 sonnets have added more than 3000 new words and hundreds of idioms to the English language.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sunday/technology/Free-English-course-about-Shakespeare/shdaily.shtml