When I was little (about 5) my parents were friends with a spanish speaking woman and a german speaking man (married couple) I only understood German and English so I use to think if I spoke in any gibberish sounding words (that didn't make sense to me) that the woman would understand because anything I made up just had to be spanish since it wasn't English or German.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- When people would ask me what was my background, I would tell them 1/2 German and 1/2 Brooklyn!— Randy
- I used to think it was illegal to speak German in Germany because of World War Two.— Anonymous
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon