When I was 7 our family decided to move to Dubai for afew years. I thought that I'd completely stop speaking English and I'd start speaking Arabic and Arabic would take over English and I mae my friends swear to teach me English again when I got back
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 think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe
- Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.Anon
- I used to believe that everybody thought in English but it just came out differant.— Emily
- When I was little, I used to think that cats and dogs thought in English???— Isabella