I believed that my father and I shared a secret language called English as my mother could not speak it (we are portuguese). When I went to primary school - I got the shock of my life - every one spoke English :( I was extremely upset that people found out our secret
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish
- I used to believe that "elemeno P" was a certain kind of "P" found only in the English language. Anon
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda