Accidentally triggered a students traumatic memory.
I'm 23F and a figure skating coach i was born and raised din Latvia and moved to the stages to coach.
Since Latvian is my native language I do occasionally accidentally slip back to Latvian.
I have this one skater who is particularly quiet. One day she asked me what languages I know the list was extremely long since I knew alot of people from all pger the world. So I asked her the same she said she spoke Greek Latvian and English. I founs it intresting that she spoke latvian but before i could tell her it was my native language she told me she never speaks latvian anymore as it brings up bad and traumatic memories. So I didn't tell her I'm from Latvia.
They other day in our lesson I accidentally slipped into Latvian and she froze she just quickly skated away without a word and walked out the iceirnk.
I felt really bad about it and i hafe a lesson with her on Saturday and I don't know what to do
Posted Jul 9, 2025, 6:03 PM UTC