I am russian and I moved to US not a very long time ago. But when I was little my parents tryied to teach me how to speak english and I didn't understand why they did that. I couldn't understand how someone can't speak russian because it was so easy. I thougth that people had to translate their thougth from russian to english before they spoke.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I thought all you had to do to speak Russian was add -ski to the end of every word!— nateski
- I used to think that Russian was just English backwards— Millie
- I used to believe that my dog could speak English, but he just didn't feel like it.— Mariah
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe there was a Russian Leader named Garbage Trough and an Arabian named Are A FatAnon