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.
We just used our regular names!
In all language classes I’ve been a part of we just used our names lol :3
We used our regular names.
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.
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 was Burrito in Spanish.
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.
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.
We got to pick, pending teacher approval.
Spanish speaker here, Franciscas most commonly are called Pancha instead of Paca
That must have been what I meant then, thanks!
In which country? In Spain is always Paca or Quica.
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In my intigratuon course, we try to pronounce our names with the appropriate accent.
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.
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.
