When I was young, my father convinced me that kids in France were smarter than American kids because they learned French.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I used to think that I was smarter than adults. Now I know kids are smarter than adults in many ways— Marshall M
- I used to believe that french kiss was something coming from France, and that only the French did it— Sasha
- I thought french fries were really invented in France (they are Belgian for those who don't know)— Quarm
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- I thought that a "sugar daddy" was a father who let his kids eat all the sugar they wanted.Anon
- When I was young I thought that police had soft skin, because this is how it sounds in French " Peau lisse "
— amine