When I was about 3 years old or so, I believed with unbreakable conviction that every single person on this planet spoke Swedish (which is my mother tounge). When my brother broke the news to me that there are a lot of different languages being spoken all over the world, I just couldn't accept it.
I remember being extremely mad and yelling at him; "THEY ALL SPEAK SWEDISH! You're lying! I hate you!" =)
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to think Yiddish was pronounced to rhyme with Swedish.Anon
- I am from Norway, and when i was a kid I used to believe thet gay people talked swedish!— Norway-Girl
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- When I was 6 or 7 years old, I absolutely believed that if a thermometer broke--the world would end. — Suzi
- I thought that people who spoke a different languages were aliens.— Phoebe