my parents use to talk in chinese (my 2nd language) and subsequently hakka and teochew (their dilects) when they didnt want me or my sister to know what they were talking about. i use to think that i was a code they made up in the middle of the night and that it wasnt a real language at all.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon
- The Chinese language just had three words: ching, chang, and chong.— MD Caruso
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to think that my aniamls were going to talk to me but i still think that they have their own language.— Jane Rom
- I used to believe gibberish was a real language from a country from gibberland — Kelly Bulanek