When I was young I used to be amazed when I watched news programmes where someone was being interviewed and you could see dozens of microphones shoved in their face. I thought that each microphone automatically translated the speakers words into a different language so that everyone in the world would be able to understand it!
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that foreigners' ears translated English words to their own languageAnon
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I use to believe that I could understand what my cat was thinking/saying. So I translated for about 2 years.— Cat Speaker
- The Chinese language just had three words: ching, chang, and chong.— MD Caruso
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon