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I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"
Kia
I speak French and my sweet little sister, always trying to impress me, announced proudly that she could also speak French and spoke for the rest of the day in English but with an outrageous French accent, insisting that this was proof she was fluent.
Christina
My early childhood was spent in Latin America. We moved to the US when I was 5. There I befriended a newly arrived Chinese girl who didn't speak English yet. My parents wondered how we communicated, and I said we just spoke Spanish. I honestly thought that if you don't speak English, you speak Spanish. There's probably some poor Chinese girl out there right now that's speaking Spanish thinking its English.
When I was young and I first heard about Tina Turner, I thought her name was Tina TrØnder. A Trønder is a person who lives in the middel of Norway, and since I'm norvegian it made perfect sence to me... My brother is still mocking me for beliving in that...
Language-Alien
For a while I believed that French version of "Are you Sleeping" was a giant government conspiracy, and that they were trying to cover up secrets by singing a song in French that nobody would understand.
TK
i used to believe that american was an enitrely different language than english. I'm from wales and speak both english and welsh, and i always assumed that this was because england is right next to wales, and the language had kind of "leaked". When i was 10 (i can hear you laughing) a boy from the U.S. came to my school. Everyone thought his accent was totally cool and i said "wow, you already speak perfect english. can you teach me some american?"
bethan
i thought that (when i was little) the French used numbers instead of letters to spell things!!!!!!!!!!! CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!
The Royal Queen of England, YO!!!!!!!!!
Janine was getting ready to study abroad in France and her friend was very concerned that all Janine's e-mails would be written in French automatically.
Babette
When i was small i didn't know what french kissing was so i asked my sister. she simply responded "it's kissing a while speaking french" so i was like "o let me try!" i grabbed my doll and started to speak the lil french i knew a while kissing it. my mom walked by when i was "french kissing it"....she later told me the truth...
I used to believe that a person who blows on the french horn would suddenly say words in French out of the horn.
when i asked my parents what a foriegn word meant, and they told me the english translation, i used to be so utterly conflused as to why they didn't just say what they meant rather than creating a new "foreign" word
laurel
When I was little I always thought that when my mom made fun of the chinese language that she was actully speaking chinese. So I would talk "chinese" to her.
My dad was teaching me how to count to 10 in spanish. Well, I kept on getting confused. I would say --by the way i have no idea how to spell in spanish--"uno, dose, threse, quatro, cese(which is 6), ciete, nueve, cinco(which is 5), diese!" and I would clap for myself afterwards. I was so proud!
Leigh
I used to believe that "Pig Latin" was an actual language that was very rude--hence the name. I thought people only spoke "Pig Latin" when they wanted to insult somebody.
Maeghan Jade
When I was ten we were in NJ visiting family and my cousin taught me pig Latin. I thought it was so cool! I later told my Mom that I wished we'd never moved from NJ because they got to learn a foreign language in grade school. When I told her what that language was, she said, "Pig Latin isn't a REAL language." and started laughing hysterically. I'd been feeling very superior to my Ohio friends and was very disappointed to learn the truth.
Jennifer
i used to live in chile, south america and only spoke spanish so whenever my parents would try to talk to eachother in a way that i couldnt understand they spoke in English (which i didnt no til i was like 9) so i thought that evreyone could understand those words..i was so surprised when i moved to Washington, USA.
hersheykisses083
When I was in elementary school kids were offered an after school program to learn Spanish as a second language. But because they just said they had Spanish after school, I thought Spanish was like an extra help class to learn something like math.
when one of my friends was little, she just could not understand why people spoke different languages. she thought everyone thought in english and translated in their heads! how crazy! hee hee
raquel
When I was 4 or 5 I read or was told that Adam gave all the animals their names (elephant, monkey, etc.), way back when in the garden of Eden. Then when I realized that other people speak different languages and don't use the same words we do in English, I wondered where they got their animal names from-- since they didn't speak English, they wouldn't use the "official" names that Adam had invented!
Liz C.
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