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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I’d assume the best of the other girls. I am learning a second language myself. Even missing one phoneme makes the whole sentence fall apart for me. Pools are noisy places, so I could see how sound issues could create the appearance of willful ignorance. Tell your daughter to be kind and let the faster girls go first. If it’s still a problem, tell her to ask the coach for help, assuming good intentions. Even if the girls are being purposely obtuse, you’ll win nothing by saying that out loud. [/quote] As someone who is multilingual and has bilingual kids, unless these kids are recent immigrants their English is fine and they are just saying that to the coaches/teachers because it suits them. It's not that uncommon--I was just reminiscing with a friend about how we did this in school and drove a teacher nuts speaking a language she didn't.[/quote]
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