I used to think that saying "I can't speak Spanish" meant that you literally couldn't make the words come out of your mouth (something like how Jim Carrey couldn't lie in the movie Liar Liar.) I pictured people like grabbing their throats and trying to choke the words out.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- that Newport power station was where clouds were made. My dad is a known liar.— Lydia
- My mom used to say that if I said bad words, poop would appear in my mouth— Nina
- I thought being mentally challenged meant you couldn't do any challenges with peopleAnon
- I used to believe that to speak Spanish all you had to do was a an "o" to the end of each word. — !!.-ariel-.!!
- I used to believe the dolphins speak in spanish.— Cristian from Colombia
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon