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Embarrassing Spanish-speaking accidents!

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So in class today my class was presenting their Spanish projects.

This one boy was presenting and he was trying to say, "When I was four years old...". He didn't pronounce the "ñ" in "años" so he said "Cuando tenía cuatro anos...". Which means "When I had four anuses..."

The class bursted into laughter and he turned red but he laughed it off so it's all good smile

Have you guys ever had any embarrassing Spanish-speaking accidents??

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updated Mar 7, 2011
posted by dirtyoreo
My word of the day...anos = anus, thank you for starting this thread, its funny. It put a smile on my face :) - HotChickCD, Dec 8, 2010
Great thread! I would love to see who all participates...this could be quite entertaining! - malcriada, Dec 8, 2010
muchas gracias! :) - dirtyoreo, Dec 8, 2010
The class burst into laughter - samdie, Dec 9, 2010

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My husband was trying to order eggs for breakfast using the diminutive but instead of asking for "huevitos" de asked for "huevitas". In Colombia "huevas" can be testicles, so he asked for "little testicles". The lady's face was priceless.

updated Dec 9, 2010
posted by LuisaGomezBartle
Lol!!! I could only image. To bad he was not in some exotic place where they do it testicles or else they might have brought pig testicles for him :D - HotChickCD, Dec 8, 2010
haha this has to be the best one so far! - dirtyoreo, Dec 8, 2010
My family still mentions it every time we are there :) - LuisaGomezBartle, Dec 9, 2010
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I heard a guy trying to tell some other guys "to load", but instead of using the verb "cargar", he used the verb "cagar". That extra "r" is kind of important.

updated Dec 9, 2010
posted by Beatrice-Codder
Lmao, I didn't know the word 'Cagar' until I just checked that and it made me burst out laughing with that story. xD - RommpinCrab, Dec 8, 2010
Lol. - HotChickCD, Dec 8, 2010
Even if you know about the 'r', many Americans pronounce it too softly and it almost sounds the same to us :) - bill1111, Dec 9, 2010
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Yeah.... red face I've done that one, also instead of saying i was embaressed, I said i was pregnant. Which was pretty embaressing! downer

updated Jun 7, 2011
posted by kiersten11
hahahaha oh no!! - dirtyoreo, Dec 8, 2010
Awwww....but at least you are female...imagine if I guy said he was pregnant, lol. - HotChickCD, Dec 8, 2010
Haha, this one's classic. :) - RommpinCrab, Dec 8, 2010
The irony is that 'embarazado' means 'pregnant', but you can say in Spanish that a situation (not a person!) is 'embarazoso/a' to say that it is embarrassing. - bill1111, Dec 9, 2010
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The word "preservative" in Spanish is translated "aditivo". In Spanish, the word "preservativo" is "condom".

So, this girl went to a cafeteria and asked:

"zumo de naranja, sin preservativos, por favor".

( an orange juice with no condoms, please!! )

updated Dec 12, 2010
posted by sv2qp
Yep, this has happened to me, as well. I asked the chemist whether there was "preservativo" in the saline solution. She blinked, swallowed, and said, "No, sin conservante, señor." - Pibosan, Dec 9, 2010
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Estábamos tomando unas cervezas.

Con nosotros estaba un chico que estaba aprendiendo español.

De pronto mi amiga María se quitó la chaqueta porque tenía calor.(she had heat) ¿Qué dice entonces nuestro amigo americano?

“María… ¡veo que esta noche estás muy caliente!”(= you has very sexual appetite!)

Media cerveza salió disparada por mis narices.

Unforgettable.Ja,ja,ja.

updated Dec 9, 2010
posted by lukaaxx
I take it mean "I see that you are really hot tonight' :S - HotChickCD, Dec 8, 2010
ur very hot tonight., hotchickcd. - yomynameis______, Dec 8, 2010
you have. - BellaMargarita, Dec 9, 2010
tener calor to be hot. - BellaMargarita, Dec 9, 2010
I did that in German, too. I said "Ich bin sehr warm" rather than "Mir ist sehr warm". Oh, how they laughed ...!! - Pibosan, Dec 9, 2010
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We have a bilingual church. Our sermons, prayers, and songs are in both languages.

One Sunday, the preacher was ending his sermon in Spanish and asked, rhetorically, "Does anyone here like to sin?", using the word "pecador" for sin.

One deacon visiting from another church mistook the word for "pescador". He was sitting down front and, since he liked to fish, he raised his hand.

updated Dec 9, 2010
posted by 0066c384
That's hilarious! :) - LiveUnsheathed, Dec 9, 2010
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i was so embarrassed this one time i was in florida and then i went on a boat right? so this huge ocean wave came up and hit the boat i said,"- ohh wait and there was this boy on the boat that puked all over my brand new sneakers i got them at target and i saw another pair but they were to expensive then i went home and read a book and had a taco so anyways back in florida right? So we got off the boat and went climbing up this hill and we see some goats and they were so ugly but then there was a little baby goat and he hurt his foot so my friend carried him down the hill while i distracted the bull- i mean goat isn't it so funny when u try to say one animal then say something else? which reminds me i went to the zoo the other day with my nephew and he went down the water slide like 13 times but on the last time he hit his head so i had to help him off the slide so back to the island we were trying to find gold and we went into this cave right? and we saw this old creepy looking man and he told us to leave so we left when all the sudden we spied a gold coin and we turned around and the old man had disappeared! so we went back in and saw a skeleton hanging by the neck from the ceiling and we ran off then we were hungry so went back to the ship and ordered burritos then took a nap and went home....so when i got home i played this game called "rainbow magic kitties on a lost creepy scary island" and i ate some chili cheese fritos and went to the luu next i had a friend over and we play this game called go-go-go fish we play a round of go-fish and then run out side in opposite directions and try to get back inside first and lock the door after i won we went to our other friends house and egged it with eggs! later we had this firework that we put into a mail box that shot straight into a cranky old man's garage and exploded! sick awsomeness any ways the word i said was él instead of el LOL LMAO ROFL wink

updated Dec 9, 2010
edited by yomynameis______
posted by yomynameis______
lol vote this guy up! haha great answer - yomynameis______, Dec 8, 2010
O.o; - LiveUnsheathed, Dec 9, 2010
lmaoooooooooooooo best story ever!!!!!!!!! - dirtyoreo, Dec 9, 2010
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Ok, since we are on this subject,

I once was working in a very busy environment (surrounded by quite a few customers) and when my co-worker ( who is from Boston and has a particular bostonian accent) returned from lunch, I asked him what he had for lunch. I couln't believe my ears when he replied "****had a pink burga**". Everyone who knew Spanish immediately started to laugh. The poor guy blushed (más rojo que su pink burga)but couldn't comprehend what the heck he'd said that had almost everyone in laughter.

updated Mar 7, 2011
edited by Myneg
posted by Myneg
sorry efrain, I'm not certain what he was saying in English? pink burga? Instead of hamburger? - galsally, Dec 9, 2010
I don't get it. @_@ - LiveUnsheathed, Dec 9, 2010
When a person from Boston (and other parts of the Eastern US) says "burger," it comes out like "burga." But "burga" in Spanish means "hot spring." - bailey2014, Mar 7, 2011