I thought only English had strange grammar structure and all other languages has the same grammar, only English was different.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that everybody thought in English but it just came out differant.— Emily
- When I was little, I used to think that cats and dogs thought in English???— Isabella
- When I was about 5, I thought that English was the reverse reading of Turkish.— sel