I'm Irish when I was little I used to think I was living in England because everyone spoke English and that we had to learn Irish in school because Ireland had taken over the world, oh what a fool I was.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I used to think all people with green eyes were IrishAnon
- I used to believe that everybody spoke English in the worldAnon
- When i heard about Irish Bombers on the news during the 70s i used to think that planes were dropping bombs.— Moose
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- Until I was well along in years I always thought our family was Irish because my dads birthday was March 17th— Gladys
- I thought Marco Polo was Irish.
Mark O'Polo.— Claire Sparkes