I grew up in the South of Germany, so we watched a lot of Austrian TV. Most of the time the reception was very bad, and I figured out that the different accent of the TV speakers was not due to their Austrian dialect but some result of the bad TV reception.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I once believed that one could run around the south pole in order to travel backwards and forwards in time.— kaibutsu
- That germs came from Germany.— Alicia
- I used to believe Germany was in Asia somewhere near Russia.— It's in Europe!
- I used to believe that if you spoke into the speakers that they would hear it at the radio station. — natalie
- My friend was in Germany, and she thougth that "ausfart" was a city.— Tone
- I used do believe beer was only produced in Germany and then exported to all other contries.— Stefan, Munich