I used to think Japanese people had funny ears, and that when we said something in Japanese they heard it in English...I also thought their mouths were deformed or something, so that when they spoke Japanese they were actually trying to speak English.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that i am american.
i am japanese . — mayumi - I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- My older brother made me believe that wristwatches were powered by tiny Japanese men inside them.— Outsider
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- I used to believe that everybody spoke English in the worldAnon