The ability to read and converse in a foreign language benefits the scholarly work of all students and is a skill that is increasingly valued in all professions.
To work at all, the nervous system needs its cells, or neurons, to connect and converse in a language of electrical impulses and chemical neurotransmitters.
As the academy's foyer buzzed on Thursday afternoon with the sound of musicians tuning up and conversing in a mix of languages – from German to Arabic and Urdu to Farsi – several of the students reflected on what being a part of the school, which started teaching last year, meant to them.
Confronting our expectations of student learning (Table 4) with student responses challenged us to think and converse in a reflective manner.
They can practise working with feedback, and conversing in an iterative loop.
Both read the Koran and visited relatives in Karachi and conversed in Urdu at home.
They seemed to inhabit a fantastical private realm ("the good ship Albion" or "the Arcadian dream") and converse in the style of a flatshare sitcom written by Galton and Simpson, with help from Pinter.
Eligibility criteria included aged 18 years or older, able to read and converse in English and being a first-time mother to at least one child aged between 6 and 12-months.
"Gilmore Girls," in which the mother and daughter get along splendidly and converse in arch, screwball comedy shorthand, is a mother's pipe dream, but all teenage shows traffick in the adult fantasy that teenagers and parents can come to an understanding in a crisis (AIDS, condoms, eating disorders, death of a grandparent).
On a circular set of red couches positioned below the anchor desk, pollsters Doug Schoen and Scott Rasmussen, the Democratic consultant Kirsten Powers, and Mr. Steele conversed, in an area Mr. Rove nicknamed the "geek pit".
