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...compulsory, and today Darias teaches it to the 164 students at Lomada School. He coordinates the work of two Silbo teachers to cover the island's 14 other schools. Students aged 7 to 14 do half an hour of whistling a week; those under 7 do 15 minutes to acquaint them with the technique. The Silbo employs ch, y, g and k sounds, plus the vowels a and i. "The sounds are approximate to spoken Spanish," says Darias. "Some words, such as catarro [a cold] and cacharro [a cooking utensil], sound much the same, as do nada [nothing] and lana...
...real thing in order to make more pedagogically sound decisions; but more work early on would just hamper them from exploring a range of different classes and choosing the ones that best suit them. Instead, professors should stick to presenting a brief overview of course material to acquaint prospective students with the content and methodology of the course. Professors should remember that as long as it’s shopping period, they haven’t sold anything...
Test runs on the press over the past week have allowed Crimson executives to play with the final version of the redesign and acquaint themselves with the newspaper’s new features...
...moment, Gray said he is working to acquaint himself with Harvard’s properties in Cambridge and beyond...
...mine for dinner at Three Aces, a pizza and sub shop on Mass. Ave. just north of the Law School. Unsurprisingly, he had never visited Three Aces before, and as we talked I discovered that, just like most of my River friends, he had also not managed to acquaint himself with anything north of Hemenway Gym. As we dined on the best steak sub north of Weld Boathouse (yes, even better than the Steak and Peppers at Noch’s) he inquisitively asked about life in Quad, given the changes announced since the beginning of the year...