![]() ![]() Dani Sanders is leading the seventh-graders in a silly song about the frustrations of this doll, her Aunt Moti… Instead, peer into Room 213 at Robert Goddard French Immersion School in Prince George’s County, where a teacher on this particular day is bouncing a rag doll named “Tyoti Moti” on her knee. To find the public school with the largest reported number of tweens learning Russian, look not in New York City, Alaska or anywhere else known for enclaves of immigrants from that country. He studied in Galway, so he speaks the same Connemara dialect I studied myself several decades ago.Ģ) From the Washington Post, Linda Davidson’s “ At French immersion school, a love for Russian“: Shevlin, a New York City sanitation man - a “fear bruscar” in Irish - who began studying the language a few years ago. “I was amazed to find there were people I could speak Irish with, while picking up their garbage,” said Mr. ![]() The route winds through the Belle Harbor section of the Rockaways, where conversations were once commonly conducted “as Gaeilge.” ![]() This exchange - roughly: “How are you?” “I’m fine.” “Ah, grand!” - was in Irish, the Gaelic language that survives only in parts of Ireland - and to a lesser extent, along the garbage route of Ed Shevlin, 51. Naturally, the woman replied, “Tá mé go maith.” “Ceart go leor,” the trash man shot back. The jolly trash man was going about his route in the Rockaways, Queens, when he spied a woman in front of her house. 1) Corey Kilgannon has a nice story in today’s NY Times that begins thus: ![]()
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