We had an extended household. My grandmother was very tiny, about four feet, ten inches. She and her parents all spoke German, French and English. So did my father and his sister.
I was not much shorter than my grandmother. In fact, we were the shortest two people in the family. So, I believed I need only grow a few more inches to speak German :)
It seems to have worked ;P
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- I used to think it was illegal to speak German in Germany because of World War Two.— Anonymous
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison
- When people would ask me what was my background, I would tell them 1/2 German and 1/2 Brooklyn!— Randy
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon