Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to think Yiddish was pronounced to rhyme with Swedish.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 people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole