As a child I knew that in Israel the language spoken was Hebrew. Since my exposure to Hebrew was limited to the chanting I heard at Synagogue, I assumed that in Israel people went around chanting to each other all day.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to believe that URDU is the most spoken language in the world Anon
- When I was little, I used to think that Latin was wriiten because it wasn't a spoken language!!!— Stupid Gal
- That "Twim Peaks" and Northern Exposure were the same show.— LongLiveRock
- As a child I used to think that everybody speaks the same language, mine.— Eva
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS