The Chinese language just had three words: ching, chang, and chong.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that foreigners' ears translated English words to their own languageAnon
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to believe that if you touched Chinese people, they would break.— Christian
- i used to believe that euthanasia has something to do with young chinese people— CW
- I used to think the person who delivered Chinese food came all the way from China to do it.— Savana