My first language is English, and when I was little I thought that everybody in the world could automatically speak and understand English, even though they could speak their own language as well.
I used to complain about only knowing English, that everybody else in other countries could speak it to and how boring it is having a language that everyone in the world could speak.
Then my sister finally explained the concept of languages... hahaha
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 believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly
- I used to believe that my dog could speak English, but he just didn't feel like it.— Mariah
- I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon