I used to be afraid that when I have a kid I won't be able to teach it how to speak English and it would just grow up never knowing how to speak.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I would one day have a dog, and I would teach him to speak, read, and even write!— Gretchen
- I used to believe that my dog could speak English, but he just didn't feel like it.— Mariah
- I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- when i was a kid i used to believe the monkey could speak— killian
- I used to believe that people on the T.V got into the T.V set to speak— Altair