I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I also thought that people in different countries coughed, sneezed, laughed, or cried in their own language!— Mini
- when i was little i used to beleive that if i coughed, sneezed and farted at the same time i would blow up— fart
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen