i used to think that when people sang in foreign languages they were just singing pretend words that they made up as they went along. i wasn't pleased, i thought i'd invented that game.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- I used to think that birds sang in different languages depending on the country they were in!— Sarah
- I used to believe that all languages were just jiberish and I asked my mom why they didn't use real words.Anon
- When Madonna sang "let the choir sing" in "Like a Prayer", I thought she was singing "love by proxy"— Kristen
- When i was in kindergarten, i used to think that i invented the words million and billion— Comonsnadama