Once I told the teacher "I'm almost done!" Thinking I had just let her know I was as finished as I can be, I was quite confused to hear her say" Well go and finish it up then, Suzie." I learned quickly what "almost" meant. This was in kindergarten, I was still kind of new to English--even though strangely teachers had no idea it was my 2nd language--I heard a kid using the word "almsot" and I liked it.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "elemeno P" was a certain kind of "P" found only in the English language. Anon
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren