I used to think that when you got a foreign language option for something, like if a list of instructions were written in English, French, Polish, and German, for instance, then the foreign ones besides English were just there randomly, rather than being languages that people would be speaking if they were using the product!
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 all Christians were English and all other religious people were foreign.Anon
- I was shocked when I found out that dogs in foreign countries didn't know English commands.Anon
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.— Even more stupid
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej