i thought i could speak my own language because when i spoke in this language to my friend he wud talk bak the same i thought id invented a language until i tried speaking to my dad like that and he didnt replay.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- 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 translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- For the longest time I thought Pig Latin was an actual language that they spoke in a part of Europe.Anon
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon