When I was little, I just couldn't get my mind around the concept of people from other countries speaking anything other than English. Yet I knew it had to be true because I personally knew people who spoke Czech, Italian & German. My solution to this dilema? I was firmly convinced people spoke other laguages, but thought in English!
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- I used to believe that everybody spoke English in the worldAnon
- I know my dog, Palmer, spoke English, he was just really quiet.
— Klayne P. - I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon