When I came to the States, I was learning English in ESL English as a Second language) Program, and all the other students in the class were from different countries too. I couldn't hear the difference in pronounciation and spelling of the words 'shit' and 'sheet', 'ship' and 'sheep', and the worst of all 'skank' and 'skunk'!!! So I was using this words very wrongly among other students. Since they didn't know better, I kept on missusing the words until I asked my teacher a "shit" of paper in order to write the story of how I ran over a skank w/my car!
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that foreigners' ears translated English words to their own languageAnon
- I used to believe that if I spelled Norwegian words backwards, it would be English. I don't anymore...— Gudrun
- i believed that michelle gayle's sweetness song contained the lyrics shade in sheep shit!— andrew
- The Chinese language just had three words: ching, chang, and chong.— MD Caruso
- I was shocked when I found out that dogs in foreign countries didn't know English commands.Anon
- I used to believe that all languages were just jiberish and I asked my mom why they didn't use real words.Anon