May 28 2009: The English shouting class that he mentions is called Crazy English. It was invented by a man named Li Yang, who had bad grades in English at school, but learned in his own way, and improved his English a lot. Li Yang started to promote Crazy English in 1992. The idea behind Crazy English is to train the muscles in the tongue and mouth to be familiar with English pronunciation and overcome the fear of speaking English in public. But it is only one of many somewhat extreme ways some people prefer to learn English.
Here is more info in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_english
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Here is more info in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_english