Sometimes i would hear my mom speak German while talking on the phone with someone, since she is of German ancestry. The only languages I knew were English and Spanish(my dad is Mexican), so I thought she was just speaking in a made-up "secret code language", because she was talking about something secret that she didn't want me to know about.
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 it was illegal to speak German in Germany because of World War Two.— Anonymous
- When I was young,I thought the lyrics "Secret Agent man" were actually "Secret Asian Man".— M.M.B.
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole