When I was a little girl, all of the older members of my family spoke the language of their home country. I used to think that when you got old, you automatically knew how to speak Yiddish.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.Anon
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to belive that african was the language they spoke in all of africa— quark
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish