I once believed that soap and soup were the same thing, due to the pronunciation of “soup” in my native language as “soap-uh”.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg
- i used to believe i was native american because i was a native of america!!!— rachel
- Because of Pocahontas, I grew up believing Native Americans noises sounded like English to Native Americans.Anon
- I believed that burglars ate soap & lipstick— Karen
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae