When my husband applied for his first job when he was around 15 or so...
The application asked if he spoke a foreign language he put Enlgish. He got the job, I'm assuming because he made the interviewer laugh so hard when he read over the app. I asked him why he would put that. He said well I of course speak Amerian because I live in America & I took English in high-school so at the time it made sense. He also trys to play it off that he was nervous as it was his first job interview. Now when he mumbles something & I can't understand him...I'll ask him to let me know if he's speaking American or English so I can translate it as I am not bilingual.LOL!
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 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
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon