funny language mistakes
 

hello everyone! I am doing a school project and I wanted to know if anyone has any funny language mistakes, when trying to talk the native language in foreign countries. Thanks!

See http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...&tid=37981 for 149 examples previously posted.

Best wishes,

Rex

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perfect! thanks so much Rex :)

Here's a collection of Japanese attempts at English.

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Hi RTF,

That reminds me of a conference I attended. The speakers were setting up their slides and a Japanese Prof got angry at his grad student when he saw that a slide had the word "Poryester".

"You fool", he exclaimed, "It's not 'Poryester', it's 'PoRyester'.

Hi - a few weeks ago we were touring around in Provence when our car broke down. We called the rental car emergency line and I instructed my husband to say that the car is not working after checking our well-used phrase book("ne marche pas"). However, in the rush it came out ne mange pas (not eating). The service guy seemed to appreciate this!

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