My mum is from Austria and she never taught me German, I'm embarrassed to say that I thought Austrian was a language and told me teacher that it's a very different language to German, I was about 10, how stupid
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- 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 it was illegal to speak German in Germany because of World War Two.— Anonymous
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori