Invisible wrote:
>>> For me, the most baffling thing was hearing little kids uttering 
>>> complex-sounding French sentences. Now, logically, this isn't 
>>> surprising. They're probably from France! What else would they be 
>>> speaking? And yet, it still amazed and astonished me every time... 
>>> French words seem to have such a complicated structure. And yet these 
>>> kids toss it around as if it's *easy*. Which, when you're a French 
>>> person, it probably is.
>>
>> That's completely normal. I used to think the same seeing little kids 
>> speaking English.
> 
> I think the little kids speaking German amaze me more though...
> 
> [Not many of those where I was - but I saw one in the Science Museum in 
> London one time...]

In his essay _The Awful German Language_, Mark Twain mentions that a 
museum curator he met in Germany was interested in making Twain's manner 
of speaking German an exhibit in the museum.

Regards,
John

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