when I was little, I thought that each foreign language was just a 'code', + you could learn it by finding out which letters represented which. The only foreign word I knew was 'oui', so I had a starting point for learning French:
Y=O
E=U
S=I
I was dying to find something writen in French so I could crack more of the code...
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.— Even more stupid
- 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
- I used to believe that french kiss was something coming from France, and that only the French did it— Sasha