05/27/2025
I LEARNED A SECOND LANGUAGE TO SPITE MY GRANDMA – INSTEAD, IT REVEALED HER DIRTY LIE.
My grandma is French, and whenever I visited her, she always told me I didn't have the "ability to learn a language like French" and that "Americans just CAN'T do it properly." So, I spent a few years learning it just to prove her wrong.
I signed up for a French class in middle school and continued to take it. Now, I've finally reached native speaker fluency.
So, last week, I visited her with our family. I never told her I'd been learning the language, so she freely spoke French with her sister.
And then my hair stood on end. My stomach sank. I whispered in French, "What did you just say?! You did that?"
Her: "What? You understand?" she and her sister turned pale while her voice cracked under the weight of her exposed secret.
Me: DAD!! She was the one who ⬇️
