When I was little, I thought people who speak foreign languages think in English, they just use different words when they spoke. I couldn't figure out why everyone didn't just speak English since everybody thought in English
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 think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that my dog could speak English, but he just didn't feel like it.— Mariah
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon