As a child i grew up in england but spoke portguese at home. I didn't know anyone outside of my family who could speak it, therefore i believed that portuguese was a language invented by my family and used only by my family
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob
- Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.Anon
- I used to think that in the song"Family Affair, they were saying "It's a family of bears!"— Wayne Huffman
- When I was a child I used to believe that if some shoe was upside down, someone in my family could die.— Camila C.
- I used to believe that our family was the only family that farted.— Teri
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully