I also thought that people in different countries coughed, sneezed, laughed, or cried in their own language!
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.— Even more stupid
- when i was little i used to beleive that if i coughed, sneezed and farted at the same time i would blow up— fart
- When I was a young boy I thought when we cried or when we laughed we won or we lost one minute of our life. — loulou83
- when i was younger (8 or 9) and i farted my dad used to tell me not to worry, that my bum just coughed.— james
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- When I was a kid I thought that when tornado/twisters were what happened when God sneezed.— Not In Kansas Anymore