I used to think that when everyone was born they spoke english and had to be taught the other language by their parents.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to belive that african was the language they spoke in all of africa— quark