In the third grade (age eight) I began French classes at my elementary school. Every season we got some vocabulary to study and some worksheets to do (example: Easter we learned 'lapin', 'eouf', and 'printemps') from our teacher Mme Luc. We also did oral exercises to help us with pronounciation.
By Hallowe'en (still near the beginning of the term), I was terrible at pronounciation. When we did the oral exercise, we were given simple Frech sentences to read ('the flower and the cat', 'In my house', etc.).
Mine was 'Mme Luc et le bougie' which means: Miss Luc and the candle. I said,
"Madame Luc eats bogeys"
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- I used to believe that there was a shop in switzerland that sold bags of bogeys with sugar for eating— laura
- I used to think that the wax statues at Madame Tussauds were made of recycled candles and crayons.Anon