foreign languages

i was about 8 when i was at a party with family friends. While listening to my dad talking to other adults i overheard him talking about eating a "carnero" (we were all spanish-speaking).
I thought hard about this unknown animal and came to my conclusion.
"Dad? what kind of bird is a carnero?" i asked.
He burst out laughing and explained that a carnero was a lamb
whoops!

Abigail

i used to think "Es Cahr Gho" (or howevery you spell it) Meant The Car Goes.... Since I had heard my siblings learning spanish, some of the words sounded like ours... so putting two and two together ... ah whatever you know what i mean

uh

When i was 10 i believed door mats that said welcome, meant i will eat you in latin , So iwould run away in fright the end.

Jen Compton

i used to believe that people who spoke different languages (like spanish) had different numbers..i believed this till i was 13!

Anon

When I was little I used to think that everyone spoke english and no other languages

Anon

When i was little i used to think that English was the only language that made any sense and that everyone else just
babbled i always wondered how they understood each other.

Anon

This one is not me,but someone else who was not at all literate in the French language.He went to a city where French was spoken.He was trying to inquire about ownership of certain fixed assets.But the answer he got from passers by was always,"je ne sais pas" (I don't know).
He concluded that Mr. "je ne sais pas" must be the wealthiest man ever.He owned everything from cars to hotels to to every home he saw.
He really used to believe that.

epimeno01

When I was learning Spanish in school, I would always remember that Buenos Dias was in the Morning, and then that Buenos Tardes was in the afternoon. At school, the teachers always explained to us that "Buenos Noches is after supper," so that's what I'd remember. To this day, especially during the summer, I get looked at funny when I say Buenos Noches if I'm out somewhere after suppertime and it's still light! I guess I thought that you said "Buenos Noches" only during the hours following supper. Not when it gets dark!

Hilary The Baker

When i was a little girl i had a tea set that i always kept in it's box on my bookshelves. The box was all written in another language but i didn't understand this and so i always got incredibly frustrated when i couldn't read it. It got to the point that my dad had to put the box at the top of my wardrobe because i couldn't sleep.

Anon

When I was little, I thought people who speak foreign languages think in English, they just use different words when they spoke. I couldn't figure out why everyone didn't just speak English since everybody thought in English

Anon

i thought i could speak my own language because when i spoke in this language to my friend he wud talk bak the same i thought id invented a language until i tried speaking to my dad like that and he didnt replay.

poiuytrewqlkjhgfdsa

I used to believe that to people that spoke a different language, they still heard it in English. My philosophy was that their ears translated their foreign language into English, and my ears didn't have that, so I couldn't understand them.

Anon

I used to think that in a sentence in French, no word or beginning of a word can be capitalized. So if i would say, I like Bob. in french, i thought it would be j'aime bob. instead of J'aime Bob. Turns out it was only for dates that capitalising months and days was not allowed.

sarah

When I was a kid I used to believe that when people spoke in languages other than english, their brains somehow converted the sounds INTO english, so that they would hear it in english and could therefore understand it.

drfish

I honestly used to believe that English was the world's official language, and all other languages were secondary.

Hola Kitty

my best friend and i would sit in the front lawn with a fold out table and read from the phone book trying to speak spanish but we didn't know how so we just talked giberish and it was are own klanuage and when people wal;ked by we would say like hello but hello was wekatakkimomo or something

tori

Up until I took a 3rd year of spanish i thought everyone thought in english. I figured out it was wrong when i started thinking in spanish

Anon

I used to think that people from Australia spoke Australian and that people from Austria spoke Austrian

Anon

When i as young i used to believe that the French spoke a lot of gibbirish like this: uehjdh fhdjh urifmnas dfhj vhfdhfdfhj jjfj pe0we0wesif

Quako

I thought that Korean and Japanese sounded the same.

Anon