I used to believe that, being American, all the people in the world who did not speak English actually understood the language, and just took the extra time to 'convert' it into their own language so that we could not understand what they were saying. I thought this up through first grade, while we occasionally learned Spanish during that time so that we could also disguise our conversations as well
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- I used to believe that Spanish and Italian were the same language;Spanish was for boys and Italian for girlsAnon
- I used to believe my nieghboor jose invented the language spanish and he got rich and bought cars— Thomas
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly