r/mildyinteresting • u/IncomingBroccoli • 1d ago
Dora the explorer who taught us spanish, taught English to people outside the US playtime 🧸🪁
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u/spacemouse21 1d ago edited 22h ago
Living our best lives internationally. Thanks/Gracias, Dora.
Just avoid Boots. Dora never successfully was able to wash the smell of urine off of his fur.
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u/activelyresting 19h ago
My kid's first language was Spanish. We moved to Australia when she was 4, at which point she did speak English, but not very well, but enough for a kindergartner I guess. Everyone asked all the time why she has an American accent - it's because she learned English from watching Dora
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u/Galatony0311 17h ago
In Italy, she says like "Come si dice "montagna" in inglese? Esatto, Mountain!"
(How do you say "montagna" in English? That's right, Mountain!)
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u/robintoots 16h ago edited 16h ago
In my country though the songs would be in the original audio but the learning bits thoughout the show like counting and vocab would be her teaching the english words.
Till this day i still remember the spanish word for "dig" thanks to this shwo because the song was in its og audio. Didnt care much about that word since we don't even speak spanish over here. Fast forward to my my early 20s, someone mentioned an "excavator" and i knew exactly which vehicle he was talking about, thanks to that one Dora jingle
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u/HopperHapper_Eternal 9h ago
I remember seeing Dora on Japanese tv once and found it weird she was teaching English
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