Something I realized when I started learning languages is that different languages have different ways to start and end children’s stories. In English, people usually start with “Once upon a time…” and end with “…and they lived happily ever after”.
In Mexico for example, we usually start stories with “Erase una vez…” (there was once) and end them with “…y colorín colorado, este cuento se ha acabado” (and colorful redhead, this story has ended). Obviously it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it rhymes, which makes it a nice phrase to end the stories.
How do people usually start children’s stories in your language? And how do they usually finish them?
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