When I was 7 we moved to Malaysia. Before we left my mum told me that they speak a different language over there. I just assumed that meant that they spoke in opposites.
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 the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to belive that african was the language they spoke in all of africa— quark
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon