I used to believe that people who spoke foreign languages all translated to English in their head before speaking. It wasn't until I took a French in secondary school that I figured it out.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I used to believe that people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe
- 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 think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that all Christians were English and all other religious people were foreign.Anon