When I was a toddler, I had lots of toddler friends who were non-English speakers, but I had no concept of different languages and just thought that they had their own words for things. We all just spoke our own language and listened in eachother's languages. I understood "pass the red crayon" in three languages and had no idea I had language skills.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- I thought that people who spoke a different languages were aliens.— Phoebe
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- I used to believe that all languages were just jiberish and I asked my mom why they didn't use real words.Anon
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon