Bilingual people, when you were/if you are in school, did/do you ever talk to someone who speaks your language in that language so that the teachers won’t understand?

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I personally find it hilarious when people have conversations en español, thinking that none of the non-hispanic people in the vicinity understand them.

Están equivocados. Lo aprendí como segunda lengua cuando mi hermano se casó, y agregamos venezolanos a la familia lol.

It's adorable that someone world think that the fourth most widely-spoken language on the planet is a secret code that no one in public would possibly have a hope of comprehending

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Never did that on purpose.

In fact it wouldn't even had occurred to me to try to do that speaking spanish - The school district I went to growing up is about 60% hispanic so most of the teachers knew at least some spanish.

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no. not many people spoke my native tongue.

when i finally did move and found more people speaking the language, we would speak our language not to hide from the teacher but just because it was more comfortable

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especialmente en los estados unidos, solo hablaba español con mis amigos pq el maestro no lo entendía.

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me recuerda a alguien en chicago hablando en polaco a pesar de que muchos polacos viven allí.

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I went to an English speaking high school for a while being a native Dutch speaker. Sadly the teachers there were very aware of the Dutch students and would sternly bit politely ask to keep it in English.
Now that I’m in the real world I use Dutch as a private language quite often.

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that stinks that the teachers were aware of them

unfortunately, i speak a very common language: spanish, but i also know portuguese from my dad, which i literally don’t know anyone else in my area who speaks it.

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I fancied the opportunity, but there were no other speakers of the language at my school.

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It's adorable that someone world think that the fourth most widely-spoken language on the planet is a secret code that no one in public would possibly have a hope of comprehending

Even if someone doesn't know a language initially, they aren't secret codes! Anyone can get a language learning app on their phone and practice it until they know enough to follow a conversation.

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Yeah always be careful of that. I worked with a White guy that grew up in a Chinese family (adopted) . We were in a restaurant in the Asian part of Seattle. Well according to him they were talking bad about us the whole time. White this Black that for like the whole hour we were there. Then as we are getting the check he spoke in perfect Mandarin no accent or anything. You could have heard a pindrop and the look on their faces. It was epic.

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what’s your language?

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that makes a lot of sense, what language was it?

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I knew two girls who learned sign language just to gossip during class

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I’ve seen girls in high school do that

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portuguese. i was in the midwest as a child but moved to southern florida in the 2nd half of high school

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A good number of years ago, I took a community college sign language class with a coworker so we could chat during meetings. It was fun, and more so because some of the others in the class were medical staff at a regional youth detention facility of some sort who specifically wanted to learn some of the “spicier” words so they could know what was being said to/about them by deaf teens and understand descriptions of physical needs. Definitely vocabulary not in the usual intro curriculum.

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Me and my sibling were tired of my mom eavesdropping whenever so we learned another language to communicate between us. It would drive her crazy but she never bothered to learn to speak said language, so that's on her.

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Ja du sprichst very good Español amigo! Was idioma are wir speaking jetzt?

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It's like the kids who would learn basic sign language to talk to each other across the classroom.

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Bilingual people, when you were/if you are in school, did/do you ever talk to someone who speaks your language in that language so that the teachers won’t understand?