My father's side of the family has a Portugese background, but I was never taught to speak the language. I did however, have to call women on that side of the family Tia so-and-so (Tia Norma, Tia Evelyn etc). I always wondered why I never had to call them auntie, and why they all had the same first name.. that is until my 8th grade Spanish class when I learned that Tia means aunt in Spanish, and I figured out it does in Portugese too!
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Spanish and Italian were the same language;Spanish was for boys and Italian for girlsAnon
- I used to believe that to speak Spanish all you had to do was a an "o" to the end of each word. — !!.-ariel-.!!
- I used to believe the dolphins speak in spanish.— Cristian from Colombia
- I used to believe my nieghboor jose invented the language spanish and he got rich and bought cars— Thomas
- In first grade I believed that I was from Mexico because I could count to ten in Spanish.— Lara Roy
- Until about 2nd grade, I thought they spoke Spanish in China.Anon