Even attorneys who speak Spanish can face a language barrier when dealing with their Spanish-speaking clients, and a new course at the University of Baltimore School of Law aims to teach students how to effectively counsel clients in their native ...

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The Cardin School has hired four new teachers. ...

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COLLEGE PARK — The Prince George’s County teacher lifted a foam object from an orange bucket in her lap and waited for someone in the kindergarten class to identify its shape. Not in English. Not even in Spanish. Instead, the ...

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Reginald F. Lewis High School is one of four Maryland schools participating in Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Learning Lab, a program where a Samsung Galaxy tablet-filled bus comes to the school once a week. This month, the school launched another partnership with Verizon Wireless: a 12-week trial of the Samsung tablets for use in Spanish classes.

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After months of tests, doctors diagnosed Amalia Ochoa’s infant daughter Vicky with brain abnormalities. Doctors said that Vicky wouldn’t walk or speak, and if Vicky’s head continued to grow at the current rate she wouldn’t live past 3. Ochoa is ...

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MIAMI — One-year-old Alice Di Giovanni asks for “banane,” not banana, when she’s in the mood for one. She’ll bid you farewell with a “ciao.” And if she wants more, she says “mas.” The Miami toddler is one of an ...

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WASHINGTON — Jose Andres is moving from small plates to big ideas. The Washington chef best known for popularizing tapas — the Spanish custom of dining on small, shared dishes — has been not so quietly refocusing, keeping one eye ...

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I’m trilingual: I speak English, Spanish, and Portuguese. As a Puerto Rican, I grew up speaking Spanish as a child. When I moved to Maryland at the age of 7, I learned English. My knowledge of Portuguese only developed in ...

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OCEAN CITY — Del Baker, a firefighter-paramedic in Ocean City, arrived at the site of a rollover car accident last summer and discovered an increasingly common problem: None of the victims spoke or understood English. Baker pulled out a new ...

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SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Minutes after a team of rescuers hoisted 33 miners to safety, President Sebastian Pinera hugged the men and gave them a thanks very much a la Chilena — one with a punchline. Pinera told the ...

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