I used to think that Russian was just English backwards
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- i used to think that french was english backwards!— ---pepsi---
- I used to believe that if I spelled Norwegian words backwards, it would be English. I don't anymore...— Gudrun
- I thought all you had to do to speak Russian was add -ski to the end of every word!— nateski
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe there was a Russian Leader named Garbage Trough and an Arabian named Are A FatAnon