By SpanishInFrenchClass - 06/12/2012 05:35 - United States

Today, I had a presentation in French class. I was so nervous, the first thing I said when I got up there was, "Hola." FML
I agree, your life sucks 29 773
You deserved it 5 437

Same thing different taste

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the_enigma1019 1

Everybody makes mistakes, what matters is your ability to play it off as a joke or make it work to your advantage.

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87 - Il faut vraiment etre debile et etroit d'espite pour balancer des generalités comme ça ? Serieux quoi, c'est bien le dernier endroit ou je m'attendais à voir ce genre de commentaire...

Oh wow. I took Spanish for 4 year and then went to take French..... Lets just say I pronounce everything in a Spanish accent an if I don't know a word, I said the Spanish word in an attempted French accent.

That's understandable. If you start French later, then you get a lot of kids who have taken Spanish and either didn't like it or just wanted to take another language. I started French in tenth grade after 3 years of Spanish and saw a lot of the kids from my Spanish class. The entire first couple weeks consisted of our French teacher trying to get us to stop accidentally getting stuff mixed up with Spanish. It's not a big a deal; don't beat yourself up over it :)

It was a Catherine Tate reference. In reality, "oui", "non", and blank stares are far more common. :P

stop pleonasm! i dont know scandinavian!

knoxxx 22

Next time, OP, just say, "Je blague!" and move on with your presentation.

dbt88 15

Yep, I remember my first day in an upper-level college French class. The teacher asked "comment allez-vous?" and I replied with my name... Der.

Don't worry, it happens. I did the reverse: when I was looking at colleges, I sat in on a Spanish class and said "très" instead of "muy" when asked a question. This is a phenomenon known as proactive interference: in the case of languages, when you learn one new language and start learning another, the first will (at least initially) interfere. It's a perfectly normal brain function.