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When i was little i thought that people could laugh in different languages
Lauren
When I was about 3-4 years old, my dad got a job in USA (we're from Pakistan)and moved there. And after he had been there for about 7-8 months, we were going to US too. So I was really worried that when I met my dad after so long I wouldn't be able to talk to him because he would've forgotten our language by then :)
Deeba
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When I was little, we moved a lot. The first move I remember, I was scared. You see, I was sure that Indiana spoke a different language (all the states had thier own as far as I was concerned), and I was terrified that I wouldn't be able to learn Indianain, and I'd forget the language I already knew.
When I was about 8 I had never heard a foriegn language before so I thought that when it finally did happen the sounds of their language just wouldn't register so all I would hear is buzzing.
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When I first learned about French, I thought that every word in English would be the same in Freanch, except 'le' or 'la' would be in front.
Not long after my discovery, I met a girl named Larissa. I had never heard such a funny name before and assumed that it was French (it's actually Russian). That night I looked in my dictionary and found that Rissa means 'the genus Laridae'.
Genus is a species, and Laridae is the scientific name for 'gull' as in the kind of bird.
From then on I thought that my friend turned into a seagull every night and would turn back into a little girl in the morning so she could go to school.
Marshmello Da Strawberry Cow
I used to belive that english was the "default" language and that all other languages were made up for fun. I used to think people with British accents were speaking a new funny language!
Jessica of the USA
I always thought that since babies could not talk proper English, they talked Japanese and babies from Japan talked English.
Person
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When I was young I thought that 100 years ago everybody spoke the same language, and the languages we speak now were invented for wars to protect our secrets against other nations.
HermanTheGerman
Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.
When I was little, I used to think that Latin was wriiten because it wasn't a spoken language!!!
Stupid Gal
I was obsessed with people that spoke another language when I was a kid. I would drag my mother toward them (much to her embarassment) telling her "Mommy, look! Those are language people!" I wanted to talk to them, to find out what they were speaking, where they were from, what their culture was like. This was when I was three or four. Is it a small wonder that I'm now a translator?
Leopard Lady
Being Canadian, I assumed that every country had two official languages; I deduced that the official languages of the USA must be English and Spanish. I'm not sure when I was disabused of this notion.
Matt
When I was in elementary school, I would spend my summers in Korea with my grandmother. However, my Korean wasn't that great so I often confused the word "shijang" (the market)with "shijip" (married). Needless to say, I got some odd responses when I told callers that my grandmother couldn't answer the phone because she went to get married.
Wonbanana
Petit, je croyais qu'en Irlande on parlait et chantait en français !
Garçon Français
i used to believe in order to speak spanish, all you had to do was add an "o" at the end of every word
froggirl
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when i was 13 i believed for a year that Australian was a language after seeing the commercials and being convinced by my brother
I used to think, that children in different countries laugh in different way, just because they spoke different languages.
Joanna
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The Chinese language just had three words: ching, chang, and chong.
MD Caruso
My sister and her friend used to go around and speak jibberish. They told me they were speaking Chinese, so I argued non-stop with them. In the end I believed that they could really speak Chinese.
Bashful Britni
I used to think that people who didnt speak english translated what they spoke or heard from other people into english in their head!
Sammi
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