I'm from Finland, so my mother language isn't English. In Finnish we pronounce actually the same way we write (for example we pronounce Finland's capital Helsinki like Hell-sin-key and kiikari (binocular) little bit like key-car-e). I only knew that in English you write differently than you pronounce, but i thought that it works like A is E, T is V, B is D and so on. so i thought that people who speak english just change letters in their head and then pronounce it like people in finland. I'm not sure when I figured out how it really works but at least at school when I started to study English. I hope you understand my explanation :)
A childhood belief about foreign languages
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- I thought that exclamation marks were actually "explanation marks", since they explain how you pronounce it.— superoid
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- 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 anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
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