Coming to the states when I was four, I thought English was jibberish. So people always talked "jibbierish" so I joined in. Man I must have looked dumb.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- I used to gag when I ate english muffins because the holes in the bread looked like nostrils.Anon
- I used to believe that when people talked about 4x4 trucks, I thought it meant all the wheels turned.
— tracy - When people talked about serial killers, I thought that they put poison in your cerealAnon
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon