When I was maybe four, I believed that English was THE real language, and people who didnt speak it were just speaking some secondary language.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly