It was only at the age of 5-6 that I understood that to translate a verse into a foreign language you have to reconstruct it completely and it's impossible to translate word for word
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- When I was eight, I thought my dad could translate what the birds were saying. I have no idea why.Anon
- I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.— Even more stupid
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen