I'm Chinese American and when I was a kid, I lived in the USA, in a small town with no other Chinese people except an elderly lady and her son who spoke a different Chinese dialect we didn't understand so we just spoke to them in English. No one else knew a word of Chinese. I used to believe that 1. Chinese is a rare language. 2. Each Chinese family spoke a different dialect of Chinese.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- The Chinese language just had three words: ching, chang, and chong.— MD Caruso
- I used to believe that if you touched Chinese people, they would break.— Christian
- i used to believe that euthanasia has something to do with young chinese people— CW
- I used to think the person who delivered Chinese food came all the way from China to do it.— Savana
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- I used to think that only chinese fat guys can Sum wrestle and that it was illegal if he wasnt asian.— sumo