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[–] 123 points 1 year ago (14 children)

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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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    why does this gat dang kid keep complaining about his itchy knee?!?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year 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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