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one day me and my big sister were trying to act all superior to my little sister. we told her "well WE know english and you dont!" my younger sister replied "yeah i do! ludigong lsuivnd ghusd hfhfu ljkdg. see?"
cheech
When I was at kindergarten age I used to believe that my native language (Bulgarian) was the chief one from all, because expressions from any other language could be translated in my motherly. That was patriotic... :)
Hristina
When i was little i thought that people could laugh in different languages
Lauren
When I was about 3-4 years old, my dad got a job in USA (we're from Pakistan)and moved there. And after he had been there for about 7-8 months, we were going to US too. So I was really worried that when I met my dad after so long I wouldn't be able to talk to him because he would've forgotten our language by then :)
Deeba
When I was little, we moved a lot. The first move I remember, I was scared. You see, I was sure that Indiana spoke a different language (all the states had thier own as far as I was concerned), and I was terrified that I wouldn't be able to learn Indianain, and I'd forget the language I already knew.
When I was about 8 I had never heard a foriegn language before so I thought that when it finally did happen the sounds of their language just wouldn't register so all I would hear is buzzing.
When I first learned about French, I thought that every word in English would be the same in Freanch, except 'le' or 'la' would be in front.
Not long after my discovery, I met a girl named Larissa. I had never heard such a funny name before and assumed that it was French (it's actually Russian). That night I looked in my dictionary and found that Rissa means 'the genus Laridae'.
Genus is a species, and Laridae is the scientific name for 'gull' as in the kind of bird.
From then on I thought that my friend turned into a seagull every night and would turn back into a little girl in the morning so she could go to school.
Marshmello Da Strawberry Cow
I used to belive that english was the "default" language and that all other languages were made up for fun. I used to think people with British accents were speaking a new funny language!
Jessica of the USA
I always thought that since babies could not talk proper English, they talked Japanese and babies from Japan talked English.
Person
When I was young I thought that 100 years ago everybody spoke the same language, and the languages we speak now were invented for wars to protect our secrets against other nations.
HermanTheGerman
Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.
When I was little, I used to think that Latin was wriiten because it wasn't a spoken language!!!
Stupid Gal
I was obsessed with people that spoke another language when I was a kid. I would drag my mother toward them (much to her embarassment) telling her "Mommy, look! Those are language people!" I wanted to talk to them, to find out what they were speaking, where they were from, what their culture was like. This was when I was three or four. Is it a small wonder that I'm now a translator?
Leopard Lady
Being Canadian, I assumed that every country had two official languages; I deduced that the official languages of the USA must be English and Spanish. I'm not sure when I was disabused of this notion.
Matt
When I was in elementary school, I would spend my summers in Korea with my grandmother. However, my Korean wasn't that great so I often confused the word "shijang" (the market)with "shijip" (married). Needless to say, I got some odd responses when I told callers that my grandmother couldn't answer the phone because she went to get married.
Wonbanana
Petit, je croyais qu'en Irlande on parlait et chantait en français !
Garçon Français
i used to believe in order to speak spanish, all you had to do was add an "o" at the end of every word
froggirl
when i was 13 i believed for a year that Australian was a language after seeing the commercials and being convinced by my brother
I used to think, that children in different countries laugh in different way, just because they spoke different languages.
Joanna
The Chinese language just had three words: ching, chang, and chong.
MD Caruso
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