I used to think we spoke german at home because it was our own made-up language. In school we spoke english, the normal language, and other families had different languages that they had invented.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- I used to belive that african was the language they spoke in all of africa— quark