Immigrants Taught English at Inwood Laundry

This is the perfect place to teach immigrants English, the people are there already and don't have to take other time out of their day or evening. - - Donna Poisl

By Ben Fractenberg, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

INWOOD — Don't wash your delicates with hot water and be careful conjugating that verb.
A group of Inwood residents is mixing its dirty washing with language by learning English while they do their laundry.

Artist Hector Canonge is offering a chance for more than 20 Spanish speakers to take free English classes at the Magic Touch Laundromat on Thayer Street, near Nagle Avenue.

"[The project] is based on what happens in laundromats with new immigrants," said Canonge, who will teach the sessions over four weeks.
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