Pretend to speak foreign languages day

Я сегодня написал на доске:
1. дано AB ≅ AC …
I can’t really write, but when I have an excuse to try. The second line starts with the word “given” in Russian. I was pretty proud.

2. A girl revealed her middle name in a freshman class, with a bizarrely doubled vowel. Finnish, she explained. There was some discussion of what “Finnish” might mean. I offered that I’d been there, and started to count. No recognition. I repeated the words, but in English “One, two” (don’t know further). Oh right, says she. Kitos, I say. And she translates “He said ‘thank you.'” Oohs and aahs from the students. Yeah, right. They were oblivious to my well-chosen foreign word, and strangely unupset at losing valuable mathematics instructional time.

3. I wrote a student’s name in Korean on the board. “Close!” “Close?” Yeah, I have trouble with some vowels.

4. After school (yesterday) a student transliterated other student’s names into Persian, and then Arabic. He used the same letters, but curled them more in Persian. I tried, but don’t really know the letters. (that one doesn’t really count. I’m stretching – I’m done)

So far this year, I’m having fun.