My friend Alex went on exchange to America (from England where we live), and upon arrival in the US, he was asked by one of the students, who knew where he was from, "Do you speak English?"
Hmm.. English... England... no connection there?! Obviously not.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- 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 my dog could speak English, but he just didn't feel like it.— Mariah
- I thought the England was EDGE-land but england was ENG-landAnon
- I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that England was in the Moon.
I am from Brazil!Anon