I used to think that foreign languages were only spoken by people of that nationality and everyone else just had to speak English.
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 all Christians were English and all other religious people were foreign.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 heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen