Shannon Ford
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Podcast Appearances
And so then we went to high school, and they were like, this is... And this is absolutely no shade to the Japanese culture, but, like, Spanish... But it's not a language you need to know to live in America.
To live in America, it would be much more suitable, probably a lot more, like, helpful in the job force, career-wise, to know Spanish.
And so when we got to... You don't know Spanish?
When we got to... Not really.
When we got to high school, they were like, oh...
Like no more sensei.
Like here's your senorita.
Like, like we, so we switched to Spanish and I'll never forget.
I was in high school.
I was in like a junior year of high school taking like remedial Spanish, like very low level Spanish.
And there was like freshmen that are just come from eighth grade in my class.
Oh, they knew so much.
And so the teacher kept like skipping over something like, and obviously, oh la la la la la.
And I was like, whoa, hold on.
Well, konnichiwa, excuse me.
If we could just still know, know Japanese can count a hundred.
I know like some phrases.
No, I mean, I know like a couple of phrases and head, shoulders, knees and toes really stuck with me.
But that is so funny.