In Spanish class, we get Spanish names and can choose what we’d like to be called from a list. I’m Francisca (or Paca) because it’s similar to Francesca, my online name.
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.
I’ve never heard of someone getting a nickname in their language class. We used our real names (French class).
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.
Steel-manning this: Names are nouns, a grammatical construct. So declinating it in a foregin language might not always be possible.
There are rules to handle foreign names in a language with declinsion. I don’t see why you can’t use those.
Besides, most inflected languages I know will handle names differently from other nouns. Definitely true in German, but also Italian. E.g. you say “Faccio una foto del duomo.” (I’m taking a picture of the dome.) but “Faccio una foto di Mike.” (I’m taking a picture of Mike.)
The only language where this doesn’t work that I know of would be Latin, which is why people in the past latinized names.
We just used our regular names!
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.
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.
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
That reminds me of my (Scottish) cousin’s marriage to his Korean wife. The place settings at the dinner had transliterated versions of our names in to Hangul. I’m sure it was largely done for the non-English speakers present but I thought it was a really nice touch.
It was really interesting to observe how some names could be approximated with a single character whilst others (including myself) had to be brute forced with 4+.
In all language classes I’ve been a part of we just used our names lol :3
I was Burrito in Spanish.
I was Bernardo for a few weeks until we got to talking about “things you like”. Well, I said “yo soy pollo”. Class errupted and I was left with dumbface not understanding why it was funny for awhile. And then I became Pollo for the rest of the year.
Spanish speaker here, Franciscas most commonly are called Pancha instead of Paca
In which country? In Spain is always Paca or Quica.
