I grew up in a city where immigrants settled decades before. As a child I thought that to grow old meant that you would lose your ability to speak English, as all the elderly people around only spoke Italian.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- I used to think that Italian was just English with O and A at the end!— Rochelle Peachey
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- I used to believe that everybody spoke English in the worldAnon