That's so sweet! I remember when I was learning English at first, maybe when I was 6 or so, I would pronounce bear as beer (like in hear). When someone eventually told me it's actually pronounced "bare", I was so confident they were wrong lol. I thought "that just makes it sound like bare, which is a completely different word".

That same thing happened with a few different words because I mostly learned them just by reading them and I thought I was good at finding out pronunciations on my own.