When i was about 7, i went on holiday to France with my family. After an overnight stay in a hotel, we were saying goodbye to the receptionist. My parents had been teaching me bits of the language on the journey over (because i thought one holiday would result in fluency. heh) so as we left i said "au revoir", and the French lady laughed. I was so embarrassed, under the impression that i had done something terribly wrong, that i refused to speak French again until i had to at secondary school. It was only about 2 years ago that i realised she was laughing because i was a 7 year old English kid trying to speak a foreign language. bless.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- 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
- 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 anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I thought french fries were really invented in France (they are Belgian for those who don't know)— Quarm
- I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.— Even more stupid