Alumnos

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Como se dice alumnos en una clase de pilates ????

[poli]

alumni for a college
graduates also

[ROBINDESBOIS]

YEs but for an instructor in Pilates? Or in a gym? Or swimming? Disciples, maybe?

[ChilenoAlemanCanada]

Students?

[ROBINDESBOIS]

I don't think so, maybe who knows?

[poli]

Originally Posted by ROBINDESBOIS

I don't think so, maybe somebody knows?

Alumni is reserved for higher academics.
The best term would be graduates or exclassmates. Graduate is better
because it specifies that you completed the course.

[Rusty]

Students.

Anyone taking a pilates class, a gym class, a swimming class, etc. is a student.

The teacher can be a teacher, an instructor, a trainer, or a coach.

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Thank you Rusty, that's what I thought but since they don't study at all.

[Awaken]

Originally Posted by Rusty

Students.

Anyone taking a pilates class, a gym class, a swimming class, etc. is a student.

The teacher can be a teacher, an instructor, a trainer, or a coach.

Agreed. Rusty always knows best =)

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Originally Posted by ROBINDESBOIS

Thank you Rusty, that's what I thought but since they don't study at all.

Studying is not limited to reading, but people apply themselves to learning.

[poli]

Be aware that the Spanish word alumnos and the English word alumni
have different meanings. I did not know that until this post.

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by poli

Be aware that the Spanish word alumnos and the English word alumni
have different meanings. I did not know that until this post.

I've looked this word up in the dictionary. It says alumnus, pl. alumni, f. alumna, f.pl alumnae (graduado in Spanish). This word hasn't changed its Latin form at all, not even its plural. This link gives its etymology, which is very interesting.

[poli]

Originally Posted by irmamar

I've looked this word up in the dictionary. It says alumnus, pl. alumni, f. alumna, f.pl alumnae (graduado in Spanish). This word hasn't changed its Latin form at all, not even its plural. This link gives its etymology, which is very interesting.

So aluimno means graduate and not classmate or fellow student if the meaning is the same in English.

[vita32]

Originally Posted by ROBINDESBOIS

Thank you Rusty, that's what I thought but since they don't study at all.

@ROBINDESBOIS, I agree with Rusty. Students(people) attending gym or exercise classes may not study in the academic sense but they do study to learn the steps and be able to coordinate hand/feet/body movements and this takes learning and training the muscles to do what it should.

[irmamar]

"Alumno" in Spanish is student or pupil, but in the English word "alumnus" means "graduate". That's curious that this word in Romance languages has changed its form but not its meaning (cat. alumne, it. alunno), while in English this word has not changed its form but its meaning. I wonder why (maybe the alumnus finished his studies ).

[ookami]

Originally Posted by ChilenoAlemanCanada

Students?

Originally Posted by ROBINDESBOIS

I don't think so

Originally Posted by Rusty

Students.

Originally Posted by ROBINDESBOIS

Thank you Rusty, that's what I thought.

Curious

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by ookami

Curious

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Thank you all.

[JPablo]

That's right... one was a question "Students?" and the other a statement, "Students".

-Do you want a curriculum specially for you?
-I don't think so.
-Here is a curriculum designed specially for you.
-Thank you.