That "th" sounds like the letter "f". It doesn't but I'm nearly 40 and still can't pronounce it correctly.
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Instead of touching your upper teeth with your lower lip, use the middle of your tounge to touch the upper teeth. That's all.
See you next year.
Edit: Oh, you mean actually wrong.
My middle school computer teacher once said that unwanted email was called "flame". I had never heard that term before or since used in the context of email.
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"You'll enjoy ice skating, it's easy!" - the teacher who took our class to an ice rink... 😂
The moment I'm over the ice I become the human equivalent of a scruffed cat and people started pushing me around like I was a hockey puck and I was smiling pretending I was having fun but inside I was like
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Not a Teacher, but my Boss. He advised me to clock in and out based on the system time, not GPS.
"The computer time is more accurate".
We watched an educational movie from the 1950s by Frank Capra, which my 8th grade science teacher had liked as a kid. He admitted they were somewhat dated, but still basically accurate.
In it, the scientist explained that they still don't understand how chloroplasts transform sunlight into energy. The cartoon chloroplast hid what she was doing and said something like, "The Russians don't know either."
I was pretty blown away by a scientist admitting they didn't know something, at that age, but when I looked it up, I discovered that scientists had pretty much figured it out, but it's very complicated.
Clip if you're interested: https://archive.org/details/our_mr_sun around 36:09
My 6th grade science teacher interrupted me while reading aloud after I correctly pronounced "tsunami". He goes "What's that?....tuh-soo-mee?". I said Yeah, he spends 10 seconds digesting it, and I continue reading aloud.
The next kid to read after me pronounced it tuh-soo-mee.
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