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Teaching Spanish To Engineers

May 18, 2007 By Jenny Ryan 3 Comments

Yesterday in class I taught the Spanish words for the days of the week and the months of the year. Then, in order to give the students a chance to use the new vocabulary, I did some oral drills.

Me (in Spanish): “What are the months of the summer?”

The answer I was looking for: “June, July, and August.”

The Answer I Got From An Engineer: “Well, summer doesn’t officially start until June 21st, when the month is almost over. So in order to get 3 full months included in the season you will need to apply the ANSI Standard Of Rounding Up. So the answer would be July, August, and September.”

Filed Under: CFG And Her Students, Teaching: It's Not For Wimps Tagged With: engineers are funny, teaching spanish to businesspeople

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  1. Clairebell says

    May 18, 2007 at 6:02 pm

    Gotta love them. Without them I wouldn’t have a job because of their lack of communication skills.

  2. tiggerprr says

    May 19, 2007 at 11:53 pm

    omg lol…sounds like a conversation with my hubby (who is, in fact, an engineer. LOL).

  3. crse says

    May 21, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    im guessing this includes software engineers because this is both my brother and my husband! A good example would be when my five year old overheard us discussing paris hilton and asked why she was in trouble and my husband got into a whole monologue about blood alcohol levels. Uh try, a not nice lady who drank too many grown up drinks?

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