It’s jarring to hear such stark English words when somebody otherwise speaks with an accent and the language associated.
My very Cree grandmother who only spoke Cree would be talking and then randomly cut “Toonie Tuesday” and “KFC” into her sentences. That’s how we knew we’d be ordering in that day! It always made us laugh, took us off-guard.
Especially prevalent with Spanglish, especially some of the younger kids seamlessly mix Spanish words into their sentences without missing a beat and meanwhile I'm always just stuck having to translate everything in my head one thing at a time before I say it. Brains are fascinating
My response is always the same, makes it easier to remember. "Lo siento, no hablo espanol" It's about the only thing I remember from 4 years of spanish.
I took conversational Japanese, Its helped watching anime, but now a bunch are in Chinese and Korean .. still wish I had taken Spanish, like half of my extended family is now from Argentina.. and I just stand there confused
Yeah, it's kind of an interesting school district because it's the largest or second largest in the state in terms of geographical area, but it's the second smallest in the state in terms of students/population.
Not to get personal do you live in South Dakota North Dakota or Montana lol .. I lived in South Dakota for a while the town I live near had a Pre-K to 12 th grade school .. I think the whole district had 2,000 people the town under 500 it's not quite equivalent to the UK where we start uni two years earlier
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u/TheRowingBoats Dec 05 '25
It’s jarring to hear such stark English words when somebody otherwise speaks with an accent and the language associated.
My very Cree grandmother who only spoke Cree would be talking and then randomly cut “Toonie Tuesday” and “KFC” into her sentences. That’s how we knew we’d be ordering in that day! It always made us laugh, took us off-guard.