Never could understand, as a kid, why learning foreign languages was such a big deal. All you had to do was to work out how other people arranged their alphabets.
For instance ABC in English might be UMJ in Italian. So an English 'cab' was an Italian 'jum'. Simple!
Neil
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to think that Italian was just English with O and A at the end!— Rochelle Peachey
- I used to believe that Spanish and Italian were the same language;Spanish was for boys and Italian for girlsAnon
- I used to believe that all Christians were English and all other religious people were foreign.Anon
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that people who don’t understand English can’t talk.— American
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen