When I first learned about French, I thought that every word in English would be the same in Freanch, except 'le' or 'la' would be in front.
Not long after my discovery, I met a girl named Larissa. I had never heard such a funny name before and assumed that it was French (it's actually Russian). That night I looked in my dictionary and found that Rissa means 'the genus Laridae'.
Genus is a species, and Laridae is the scientific name for 'gull' as in the kind of bird.
From then on I thought that my friend turned into a seagull every night and would turn back into a little girl in the morning so she could go to school.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- i used to think that french was english backwards!— ---pepsi---
- I used to believe that french kiss was something coming from France, and that only the French did it— Sasha
- I used to think that you had to be french to really taste french fries.— Not French;)
- I thought all you had to do to speak Russian was add -ski to the end of every word!— nateski
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- I used to believe there was a Russian Leader named Garbage Trough and an Arabian named Are A FatAnon