When I was small I would watch adults talk, and they would often use their hands to make gestures while they were talking. I thought those gestures were like a second language that adults used simultaneously while speaking. I kept wondering when they were going to teach us that language in school.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish
- I used to believe that I HAD to make up my own language and teach it to everyone. I was soo weird.— one day maybe!
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I used to think that my aniamls were going to talk to me but i still think that they have their own language.— Jane Rom