When I was little, I remember asking my dad why people that spoke other languages didn't just "learn how to speak normal" like we did. I thought English was the regular way to speak and other languages were just made up nonsense.
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
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- I thought that people who spoke a different languages were aliens.— Phoebe
- i used to believe all foriegn languages were greek if you learned greek you could speak them all
— pappy 6 27 35 - I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon
- I used to believe that my dog could speak English, but he just didn't feel like it.— Mariah