Excuse Me, That Translation Isn’t in My Dictionary
I started my classes last Monday. I’m taking Spanish 201 and French 101 this quarter as I plan on getting a BA in Spanish and French.
You know your previous teacher has messed you up when your teachers tell you they want you to be comfortable and it’s okay to make mistakes and that makes you nervous.
My previous Spanish teacher was amazing, but he scared the hell out of me (and everybody else) which worked; fear motivates me. The class started out with 40 people at the beginning of the quarter and ended up with 10. He was definitely good about weeding out the people who weren’t serious enough about the class.
When he said gracias what he really meant was shut the fuck up. Once he called me by my first name and I didn’t know who he was talking to–he usually just abruptly shouted my surname.
But he was hilarious and definitely overprepared us. He didn’t want us to miss out if we transferred to university because we started out at a community college.
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If teachers scare the shit out of me it works for me as well. I never took French :(
Ha, I took French in high school from teachers who didn’t really know how to speak French–so I learned nothing. ;) I can say “word to your mother”, “cake”, and “I don’t know”.