Asklemmy

In French class i chose "Guy" from the list because I thought it sounded cool, but then found out they pronounce it like "ghee" which didn't sound as cool. Malheureusement.

I’ve never heard of someone getting a nickname in their language class. We used our real names (French class).

Is this some american thing? I've never heard of anyone having a different name for a language class, that just seems odd to me. Your name is your name, doesn't matter what language you're speaking.

My name is French, but my initials are close to an English name (and that's my everyday nickname as well).

So it was easy to get an English nickname.

Back like 7 years ago, in my German classes, we were given a list of names to choose from. Don't exactly remember what I chose, but I think it started with an F and was 5 letters long? Liked it quite a bit.

In the Japanese classes I took 2 years ago we were given the choice of picking a Japanese name, but most, including me, rolled with a transliteration of their own name.

We never had different names in language classes and the idea is so weird to me. My name is my name, I don't introduce myself with a different name when I go to Italy or Spain.

We got to pick, though most people stuck with the closest version to their real name. I did.

But we could pick any name, if qe wanted, which was pretty cool

Spanish speaker here, Franciscas most commonly are called Pancha instead of Paca

At least in Brazil we use our names, sometimes with the pronunciation in the language we're studying. No need to use a foreign name.

Spanish: we got to choose, most people chose something close to their real name

Mandarin: my teacher’s Taiwanese wife painstakingly came up with names for us that were close-sounding, or at the very least had the same first letters. It was very cool of her to do

We just used our regular names!

In all language classes I've been a part of we just used our names lol :3

We used our regular names.

We chose from a list where students with earlier birth dates got to choose first. Perhaps a consequence of small school district combined with less commonly-learned language, but after the 3rd year with the same teacher, we tended to revert to our real names, just pronounced with an accent.

Most people chose their name, sometimes choosing a name similar to their real name, sometimes choosing completely different names. The only time I saw someone assigned a name was when their name conflicted with another student's.

I was Burrito in Spanish.

Spanish: pick your own name
Japanese: must use the Japanese-ified version of your name, eg Smith -> Sumisu, and people will usually refer to you by last name.

In retrospect, it was kinda strange to pick names in Spanish. It would be really strange / unacceptable to just pick a random Japanese name for yourself, and I've heard that it's really rude to pick a name for yourself in American Sign Language. I wonder why it's so widely accepted to do so for Spanish.

We got to pick, pending teacher approval.

In my intigratuon course, we try to pronounce our names with the appropriate accent.

Depends on the teacher. We had both kinds.

I chose Rebeca/Bequi :)