I grew up speaking French and English equally. At first, I didn't even realize they were different languages! But when I figured it out, I decided everybody must know one or the other.
At a restaurant one night, I decided to tell the people at the next table about my stuffed bunny rabbit, who was very smart, and had figured out how the desserts were made. (I think it involved bicycle pumps for the meringues.) But they didn't understand me, so I tried it all again in the other language, which only confused them even more! My mom came to get me, rescuing the poor Germans from the weird kid babbling at them in English and French.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- i used to think that french was english backwards!— ---pepsi---
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- I used to believe that people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe