i used to believe that you could learn foreign languages by subsituting foreign letters with english letters. For example bonjour = good day, so ... b=g, o=o, j=d ...
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- I used to believe that all Christians were English and all other religious people were foreign.Anon
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I was shocked when I found out that dogs in foreign countries didn't know English commands.Anon
- I used to believe that clouds were foreign countries.— Ade
- I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.— Even more stupid