I thought that kids who lived in other countries thought in English like we did and had to learn to speak their other language fluently by the time they were five or they'd be sent out of the country. I used to think how amazingly smart they must be to be translating their thoughts from English into a different language every time they said something.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- 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 believe that "elemeno P" was a certain kind of "P" found only in the English language. Anon