language: foreign languages

When I was young, I used to think that there was a universal language for soccer.

Ten years ago, my dad was watching a soccer match and I was watching it too.I didn't understand everythings but it was fun.A player was talking to a referee and I knew that not everyone where speaking French or English, so , I wondered witch language they were speaking.I guessed that they had a universal language for soccer.Then I asked to my dad and he looked at me with a curious look and he told me that they were speaking English and I was very suprised and I said to my dad that one day I will speak English too.

When I was younger I believed people from other countries actually speak the same language as I, but it just sounds different because they are in a different country and my ears were not used to their version of the language.

Up until I was like 14 or so, I thought that everyone thought in English, even if they spoke other languages. I just couldn't wrap my mind around the idea of thinking in another language.

I used to think that when gangsters on TV said stuff like "bada bing" and "fuggeddaboudid", I thought they were speaking a foreign language.

Because of Pocahontas, I grew up believing Native Americans noises sounded like English to Native Americans.

I used to think that foreign languages were only spoken by people of that nationality and everyone else just had to speak English.

I used to believe went I was a kid that everyone spoke all the same language.but when I grew up I understood that each country has Its own language.

I used to believe that people who don’t understand English can’t talk.

Assuming that the word fraud has German origins, I used to get it confused with Freud, and wondered how it made a connection together. Maybe a scientific bank crime, to be imaginative?

I used to think that when you got a foreign language option for something, like if a list of instructions were written in English, French, Polish, and German, for instance, then the foreign ones besides English were just there randomly, rather than being languages that people would be speaking if they were using the product!

I thought that Japanese and Chinese both had Kawaii....

BONUS: I thought that Japanese and Chinese languages were just symbols!

This is sad because I have Scottish ancestry from my paternal grandfather’s side. I used to believe Scottish was a language. I didn’t think British, Kiwi, Aussie or Canadian English were languages though.

I used to think Russians had surnames ending with ski because of the skiing they do in Siberia.

This is a rather stupid one lol, but I used to think that foreign schoolkids, like ones from Kosovo or somewhere like that, would have to have 'special lessons' with speaking English. You get the idea.

I used to believe that "foofa" was the F-word in Spanish.

When I was little I believed that people who spoke a foreign language were translating to and from English in their minds.