I did French Immersion (half day English, half day French) all through elementary school, and remember thinking that French was pretty much like English except with a different pronunciation. So art was art, science was science, musique was music, hygiene was health (it was just a more flowery term.) It took me awhile to accept that I was just learning plain old spelling and not the ancient and revered discipline of orthography.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- i used to think that french was english backwards!— ---pepsi---
- I used to believe that french kiss was something coming from France, and that only the French did it— Sasha
- I used to think that you had to be french to really taste french fries.— Not French;)
- I used to believe that french fries were made of bread.— tendersoul
- I use to beleive that because oui (which sounds exactly like wee) mean yes in french, that poo meant no.— Toby
- I used to believe that French people where green-like the Statue of Liberty!— Joey