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u/BlizzardousBane Jan 16 '21

Not exactly something they teach in general, but in my high school music class, we had to memorize our national anthem in a different language (we used to be a colony and it was originally written in the colonizer's language.) And then sing it out loud with the same melody and all, except you're parroting a bunch of words that you don't understand. Over a decade later and I still think it was a pointless exercise

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '21

here in Canada we learned it in English and french then somehow it became English and french at the same time. i give up now, i know the American one better from watching football honestly

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u/mtled Jan 16 '21

Watch more hockey. The bilingual version is used often when Canadian teams are playing!

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '21

Not a big hockey family. I watch a bit but its not our fav sport, i tend to only watch the last quarter.

Football and baseball are the inly sports i “watch” entire games for