In kindergarden, my friend told me American was a seperate language from English. He started claiming that he was bilingual because he could speak both.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to believe that my dog could speak English, but he just didn't feel like it.— Mariah
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon