As a child I learned some Spanish (at school) and Greek (from my Greek family), and once my Dad told me he had tried to learn Chinese but thought it was hard. So whenever I heard a language I didn't recognize, I thought it must be Chinese, and that English, Spanish, Greek, and Chinese were the only languages in the world!
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- i used to believe all foriegn languages were greek if you learned greek you could speak them all
— pappy 6 27 35 - For a while I thought Anon was a name of an ancient philosopher. Probably Greek.— zeforeigner
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- The Chinese language just had three words: ching, chang, and chong.— MD Caruso
- I used to believe that the red thing in the middle of a Greek olive was the pit.— Liz
- I used to believe that Spanish and Italian were the same language;Spanish was for boys and Italian for girlsAnon