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.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I thought that people who spoke a different languages were aliens.— Phoebe
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- For the longest time I thought Pig Latin was an actual language that they spoke in a part of Europe.Anon