I used to believe, when I was younger, that people who would speak in different languages were speaking English but only backwards...-__-
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- i used to think that french was english backwards!— ---pepsi---
- I used to think that Russian was just English backwards— Millie
- I used to believe that if I spelled Norwegian words backwards, it would be English. I don't anymore...— Gudrun
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen