I used to believe that all languages were just jiberish and I asked my mom why they didn't use real words.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- When I was little I used to believe that people laughed in different languages...— Jessica Louise
- When i was little i thought that people could laugh in different languages— Lauren
- i used to ask my mom how people laughed in diferent languages!Anon
- I used to think that birds sang in different languages depending on the country they were in!— Sarah
- I thought that people who spoke a different languages were aliens.— Phoebe