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Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:25 p.m.

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Rimaykullayki means hello

Contributing Reporter
Published Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Alejandro Galindo immigrated to the United States from Peru in 1984 and got a job as a storeroom clerk at the former Park Plaza Hotel on Temple Street. After it closed, he worked at a factory.

Then, five years ago, his career took an unlikely twist: He was hired to teach at Yale.

Galindo is a language partner at the Directed Independent Language Study Program. In scheduled sessions twice a week, he helps Yale undergraduates communicate in Quechua, an indigenous South American language. DILS is a not-for-credit program for undergraduate, graduate and professional students...

#1 By Jerry 9:44a.m. on December 3, 2008

Thank you for the fine article. My daughter works in the program and she loves the program and the people who work in it. This type of advanced language support is something that only a progressive university that truly cares about its students could provide. It reflects well on the university.

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