my friend thought that French was pronounced like English backwards, because we live in Canada, and English is on one side of packaging, and French on the opposite side.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- i used to think that french was english backwards!— ---pepsi---
- I used to think that Russian was just English backwards— Millie
- I used to believe that french kiss was something coming from France, and that only the French did it— Sasha
- I used to believe that if I spelled Norwegian words backwards, it would be English. I don't anymore...— Gudrun
- I used to think that you had to be french to really taste french fries.— Not French;)
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches