@IHatePepRallies@discuss.online
In language classes, did you choose your name or get assigned one? Or use your regular name?
2026-03-01 17:40 UTC
Replies (21)
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@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-01 17:42
Most people chose their name, sometimes choosing a name similar to their real name, sometimes choosing completely different names. The only time I saw someone assigned a name was when their name conflicted with another student’s.
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@its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-01 17:54
I was Burrito in Spanish.
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@TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2026-03-01 17:53
In all language classes I’ve been a part of we just used our names lol :3
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@gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-01 17:55
We just used our regular names!
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@shark@lemmy.org 2026-03-01 18:07
We used our regular names.
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@Nemo@slrpnk.net 2026-03-01 18:24
We got to pick, pending teacher approval.
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@may_be@thelemmy.club 2026-03-01 18:26
I chose Rebeca/Bequi :)
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@isyasad@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 18:43
Spanish: pick your own name Japanese: must use the Japanese-ified version of your name, eg Smith -> Sumisu, and people will usually refer to you by last name. In retrospect, it was kinda strange to pick names in Spanish. It would be really strange / unacceptable to just pick a random Japanese name for yourself, and I’ve heard that it’s really rude to pick a name for yourself in American Sign Language. I wonder why it’s so widely accepted to do so for Spanish.
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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 21:15
Depends on the teacher. We had both kinds.
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@ShyFae@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-03-01 22:13
In my intigratuon course, we try to pronounce our names with the appropriate accent.
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@turkalino@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-01 22:46
Spanish: we got to choose, most people chose something close to their real name Mandarin: my teacher’s Taiwanese wife painstakingly came up with names for us that were close-sounding, or at the very least had the same first letters. It was very cool of her to do
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@vfreire85@lemmy.ml 2026-03-01 23:08
At least in Brazil we use our names, sometimes with the pronunciation in the language we’re studying. No need to use a foreign name.
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@monovergent@lemmy.ml 2026-03-01 23:50
We chose from a list where students with earlier birth dates got to choose first. Perhaps a consequence of small school district combined with less commonly-learned language, but after the 3rd year with the same teacher, we tended to revert to our real names, just pronounced with an accent.
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@Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 2026-03-02 01:02
Spanish speaker here, Franciscas most commonly are called Pancha instead of Paca
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@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-02 05:58
We got to pick, though most people stuck with the closest version to their real name. I did. But we could pick any name, if qe wanted, which was pretty cool
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@Waldelfe@feddit.org 2026-03-02 08:36
We never had different names in language classes and the idea is so weird to me. My name is my name, I don’t introduce myself with a different name when I go to Italy or Spain.
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@SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2026-03-02 12:32
Is this some american thing? I’ve never heard of anyone having a different name for a language class, that just seems odd to me. Your name is your name, doesn’t matter what language you’re speaking.
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@sveltecider@lemmy.ca 2026-03-02 13:04
I’ve never heard of someone getting a nickname in their language class. We used our real names (French class).
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@randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2026-03-02 13:16
Back like 7 years ago, in my German classes, we were given a list of names to choose from. Don’t exactly remember what I chose, but I think it started with an F and was 5 letters long? Liked it quite a bit. In the Japanese classes I took 2 years ago we were given the choice of picking a Japanese name, but most, including me, rolled with a transliteration of their own name.
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@Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-02 13:36
My name is French, but my initials are close to an English name (and that’s my everyday nickname as well). So it was easy to get an English nickname.
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@nikosey@lemmy.world 2026-03-02 14:17
In French class i chose “Guy” from the list because I thought it sounded cool, but then found out they pronounce it like “ghee” which didn’t sound as cool. Malheureusement.