Estoy curiosa, do you forget que lengua you are using?

Question

I'm just wondering if anyone else has the same problem I do and if they have any funny stories. For example, I went to the bank and told the teller, "Tengo una problema." She gave me the strangest look and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't understand what you said." Again, I repeated (and this time a little louder, because apparently she couldn't hear me), "Tengo una..." when, suddenly, I realized I was speaking in Spanish! Do other people do this, or am I just a bit more blonde than I care to admit?

• Nice Question! It has indeed happened to me. But did you mean "que lengua", "which tongue/language"? ;-) - chaparrito Nov 5, 2009
• Muchas gracias! I've just stared using the Spanish I learned almost 20 years ago recently and, well, we'll just say I don't remember everything as correctly as I wish I did. - aloshek Nov 5, 2009
• Haha- esto es muy graciosa!!!! - April-Sarah Nov 5, 2009
• This is great! You are obviously comfortable speaking Spanish. Wonderful! - Alicia-53 Nov 5, 2009
• I started to speak Spanish in a Thai restaurant. Kind of embarrassing... - 005457e3 Nov 9, 2009
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Answer 1

A few weeks a go I was absent-mindedly staring into space and I saw a packet which said "Pescado" on the front. It wasn't until a few minutes later until I snapped out of it and realised that the packet actually said "Fish"!!! Weird but true, all that Spanish must be starting to pay off