My friend convinced me he was American and i used to bug him every day - "Go on, say something in American" and he'd make up some random gibberish and I really thought he was speaking American. We're both English. I believed all the cop shows like Kojak were set in London and those were London accents.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- I thought that all black people were African-AmericanAnon
- I thought that on the show "American Chopper" they built helicopters.— Alex319
- i used to believe that i am american.
i am japanese . — mayumi - I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah
- I used to believe that people who were african american were dark because they drank to much hot cocoa.Anon