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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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?