i like this story

from "Questions Christians Ask the Rabbi," by Rabbi Ron Isaacs:
 
"Hebrew is the holy tongue of the Jewish people. As the language of the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, it is the preferred language [for prayer]. However, according to Jewish law, prayers need not be said in Hebrew, but in any language one understands. A Hasidic tale illustrates the spirit of this ruling:
A boy from a rural village where there were few Jews and no synagogue once went into town with his father to do some shopping. Finding the town synagogue, he entered it and wanted to pray. But he did not know how. His father had taught him the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, but no more than that. So a thought occurred to him. He began to recite the Hebrew alphabet over and over again.  And then he said: "O God, You know what it is that I want to say. You put the letters together so they make the right words."
That too was a Jewish prayer."