- "There's a language called Caucasian!"
- There are language families called North Caucasian and South Caucasian. There is no one "Caucasian language."
- She showed us where Persian was on a tree of Indo-European languages. Someone asked where Farsi would be. She replied, "Oh, that'd be on a whole other branch."
- Persian and Farsi are the exact same language.
- She pointed to Western Sahara and said it was Morocco.
- (I mean technically it's under Moroccan control, but she was trying to find Morocco on the map and then pointed to the shape of Western Sahara.)
- She said that "Castilian" came from "Catalan".
- Castilian is the name for the standard Spanish that is spoken in Spain. Catalan is a related but distinct language spoken in a part of Spain called Catalonia, where she claims Castilian originated from. They are not the same.
- The Altaic language family not only exists, but includes "Turkic, Mongol, Manchu, Ugric, and Korean".
- I happen to think that the Altaic language family is ridiculous. If it does exist, Ugric is definitely not a part of it.
- "Basque isn’t related to Spanish. Spanish and Basque are like... are like French and some Gaelic language."
- Basque is a language isolate; it is not related to any other language on earth. French and Gaelic languages are part of the same language family. They are related.
- She said that Galicia is a city in Spain.
- She claimed that "better" is a verb in the sentence "He better surrender."
- I disagree but I'd like a second opinion.
- She asked us how to adopt the word "spritter" into Japanese and then gave us four wrong choices for a multiple-choice quiz.
- "supuraito"? No.
- "1,500 out of 15,000, that's like, what, 20%?"
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