I really used to believe that languages had barriers,physical barriers and you were prevented from crossing from one language to the other unless you had some kind of a permit or visa
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to think that a Visa credit card was what one needed to be admitted to countries that "require a visa".— Stephanie
- I used to believe that "elemeno P" was a certain kind of "P" found only in the English language. Anon
- I thought that a travel visa was a special credit card which was used for travellingAnon
- I thought that a "student visa" meant to use a credit card while travelling.Anon
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae