I used to believe that language was genetic: If you took a baby born to German parents and gave it to English parents, the child would grow up speaking German. I thought the child would have to wait until high school to take english classes.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that "elemeno P" was a certain kind of "P" found only in the English language. Anon