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Daniel Towns suspiciously plunging his finger into a bowl of jelly
Lately at work the textbooks for the lowest level adults have a lesson about going to buy things, and the setting for this is furnature shops. I was teaching a lesson to two regular students and they were practicing giving each other information about where to shop, when one of them was like "You should try ikki-a, they're having a sale!"
I was sitting there like "what the living trout is an ikki-a? ikki-a...ikki-a?? wait....no xD" so I wrote down IKEA on a piece of paper and asked her like "is this ikki-a?" and she nodded at me all happily, and I promptly died right in her face. When I told them how we pronounce it in English they went properly mental with the "EEEHHHHHHHHHHH?!?!" and thus I have been delighting in doing this to all my other beginner students ever since.
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