It has a dedicated foreign-language school with international teachers and touts its English-language teaching skills, the foreign studies of many of its faculty members and its alliances with foreign schools.

WSJ: Parents of China Victim Get U.S. Visas

And despite years of mandatory English-language classes in secondary school, the Japanese score lowest among rich countries on English tests.

ECONOMIST: Japan as number three

In one prominent case not long ago, the director of an English-language school in Phnom Penh was charged with making pornographic videos of Cambodian girls as young as eight.

ECONOMIST: Cambodia

School-age children who speak a language other than English at home are one of the fastest-growing populations.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak

Clairsville, Ohio to start an English-language offshore medical school that would put Yife's bare-bones school to shame.

FORBES: An Uncommon Practice

Although they go to a Welsh-language school, his daughter Seren and son Ruairi speak English to each other.

BBC: Carwyn Jones

The Mr Bean star plays the title role in Quartermaine's Terms, Simon Gray's 1981 tragi-comedy about teachers at an English language school.

BBC: Rowan Atkinson wins praise for 'serious' role

Singapore's Nanyang Business School offers a Chinese-language executive MBA and from next year will have an English version.

CNN: Costs vary with length, location

We spent one afternoon with well-dressed students at Kim Il Sung University and later at a foreign language high school where very bright 16-year-olds were learning English complete with American slang.

CNN: Blitzer in North Korea: Life in a tinderbox