Funniest mistake in your own language?

[Jamie (K)]

What is the funniest mistake you've ever heard an English-speaker make in your own language? I'm especially interested in pronunciation mistakes, but other ones might be fun too.

[Nicole]

Hi Jamie, I once had a friend from Wisconsin, her ancestors are Germans and so she wanted to learn some phrases in German. She asked me what My name is in German means and she pronounced it like Ischscheize which of course sounds very funny because it sounds like something completely different...
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[Conchita]

I can’t think of a really funny mistake right now, but I guess one of the most common errors for English-speakers when first tackling, say, Spanish or French, is to mix up noun genders, which can only rarely be confusing or lead to comical situations. However it’s not half as odd as when, in the contrary situation, learners of English say ‘she’ or ‘he’ for things: imagine hearing ‘I can’t touch her, she is hot’ meaning the frying pan, for instance.

The so-called false friends can be tricky, too. Here are some of the funny ones:

In Spanish if you are ‘embarazada’, it means you are ‘pregnant’,
‘constipado’, that you have caught a cold,
‘carpeta’ has nothing to do with a carpet and means ‘folder’,
‘?xito’ means success, ‘colegio’ = primary school, ‘tuna’ = a musical group at university, ‘ropa’ = clothes, ‘libreria’ = bookshop.

I find the English accent lovely and have always liked the way native English-speakers usually pronounce the l’s, r’s, h’s and w’s and turn most vowels into diphthongs. In my opinion, these are some of the characteristics that make English an ideal language to sing in.

[Jamie (K)]

[Conchita]

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