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orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

This shit happened to me, but in kindergarten. I grew up in a bilingual house. I spoke English and Spanish equally. I went to the school with my mom to get assessed. She said I could read and was bilingual. The teacher didn’t believe it and made me read from one of their books.

To add insult to injury, when they had Spanish class, the fucking teacher taught us that “purple” was “porpuda” and “lizard” wad “lizardo.” Shit like that… My mom put me in another school.

I’m 48 and still laugh about lizardo. How absolutely stupid.

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WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
When I was in kindergarten, my mom got a call day 1 because I didn’t know how to count to 10 supposedly. Even though I did it multiple times. I just did it in Japanese cause they never requested I do it in English. Tbf, I’m white and not bilingual.

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- TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  why does this gat dang kid keep complaining about his itchy knee?!?
  
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  - sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    san yon go roku shichi hatchi kyu jyu!
    
    …jyu-itchi jyu-ni jyu-san…
    
    Ok I’ll stop now.
    
    Ahem, not bilingual, but I definitely have a small chunk of Japanese drilled into my head after a decade + of Karate, haha.
    
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  - WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I do have eczema, so maybe they did think that’s what I was saying.
    
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- MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Lol one of my ex girlfriends had a “karate” teacher growing up. He taught them a few “Japanese” phrases. It wasn’t until decades later she learned this dude just made it all up. I guess it was something you could get away with in early 90’s bumfuck Wisconsin. Like this dude just rolled into town, started “karate” classes, and just kinda went with it.
  
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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Thanks, now I have a plan for trolling my kid’s future kindergarten teacher.
  
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- orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Okay…
  
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TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
lol porpuda

was she trying to say púrpura?

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- orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Exactly that. Porpuda is now a joke between my girlfriend and I and we intentionally use it wrong.
  
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You had Peggy Hill as a full time Spanish teacher‽‽

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- dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Peggy makes me so mad. She’s exactly the sort of person who would correct her students incorrectly, and be smug about it too.
  
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needanke@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Was your spanish teacher called Senór Cang by chance?

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- orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  No, but he was definitely a white dude who probably smoked a joint before class.
  
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MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
El lizardo is a great name for a male strip club tho!

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WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

To add insult to injury, when they had Spanish class, the fucking teacher taught us that “purple” was “porpuda” and “lizard” wad “lizardo.”

That’s ridiculous! Everyone knows the correct world is lizarda! Spanish is a gendered language, the genders matter! /s

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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
When I went to Tenerife, the chip and pin machine said “numero secreto correcto” and I’m still not convinced Spanish is a real language.

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