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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.
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.
Was your spanish teacher called Senór Chang by chance?
No, but he was definitely a white dude who probably smoked a joint before class.
El lizardo is a great name for a male strip club tho!
You had Peggy Hill as a full time Spanish teacher‽‽ She's supposed to be a substitute!
Peggy makes me so mad. She's exactly the sort of person who would correct her students incorrectly, and be smug about it too.
That's ridiculous! Everyone knows the correct world is lizarda! Spanish is a gendered language, the genders matter! /s
lol porpuda. was she trying to say púrpura instead of morado?
y más lagarto = lagardo = lazardo = lizardo??
poor kid
Exactly that. Porpuda is now a joke between my girlfriend and I and we intentionally use it wrong.
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.
Lol my ex girlfriend 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.
Thanks, now I have a plan for trolling my kid's future kindergarten teacher.
Okay...
why does this gat dang kid keep complaining about his itchy knee?!?
I do have eczema, so maybe they did think that's what I was saying.
san yon go roku shichi hachi kyu jyu!
...jyu-ichi 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.