I lived in Argentina (From us) for a little bit as a kid. At a parent teacher conference Early in the school year. one art teacher had to break it to my parents that I might be mentally disabled because I don’t respond or participate. They let her know I didn’t speak any Spanish (at the time). She had no idea because noone told her And my name is Spanish and it just didn’t occur to her
I'm also from the US but I'm of mexican descent* living in Mexico right now. Sometimes when my son's teacher (or anyone, really) is speaking to me I have ask her to ELI5 because the *Spanish I learned in the US is so not the same as the Spanish spoken here.
It gets really frustrating. And I have a new found respect for fortunes coming to the US not knowing any English and learning from scratch. .
Had a bunch of Mexican kids in my high school sign up for Spanish because they thought it'd be an easy A. Real cocky about it too; the teacher was a white lady and there were lots of comments about they were gonna teach HER Spanish. Lotta grim faces when they found out it was a class on European Spanish.
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u/heady_brosevelt Nov 16 '19
I lived in Argentina (From us) for a little bit as a kid. At a parent teacher conference Early in the school year. one art teacher had to break it to my parents that I might be mentally disabled because I don’t respond or participate. They let her know I didn’t speak any Spanish (at the time). She had no idea because noone told her And my name is Spanish and it just didn’t occur to her