I'm Russian. When I was 5 my family moved to Germany cause my father worked at the embassy there and I had to learn to speak German at the kindergarden. So when we came back to Russia and went to the seaside in the South on holiday I assumed that whenever you travel somewhere you have to learn the language they speak there. So naturally I decided to start with the basics and asked my father what the 'southern' for 'thank you' was.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to think it was illegal to speak German in Germany because of World War Two.— Anonymous
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt
- 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 I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori