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
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I gave a presentation to a group of international clients. Wanting to impress them, I tried to say "Thank you" in their language, which I thought was Portuguese. Turns out, I was speaking Spanish to a room full of French Canadians. Their confused faces were priceless. FML
Today, it was my first day at school in the United States. Being from France, my French accent is really strong. After being made fun of all day, I met someone from Montreal. I was so excited and said, "Parlez-vous Français?" And his response? "HUH?!" FML
Today, we had a speaking assessment in Spanish class. When it was my turn, I yawned in the middle of a sentence, said, "Excuse me" and finished my sentence. She took points off because I hesitated and I spoke in English, not Spanish. FML
Today, my French teacher set up a role-play scenario to act out in front of the class. During one of my lines, I mispronounced a phrase and called my teacher sexy. FML
Today, I had a presentation for my university class. The bus was 5 minutes late, and I ended up getting to class right on time. As I took a seat, my group was asked to present. I panicked and totally bombed my presentation. FML
Today, I had to give presentation at work, for which I'd extensively prepared. However, as soon as I started speaking, I had a sudden panic attack and forgot everything I'd rehearsed. I stumbled through the presentation, feeling the embarrassment steadily grow in front of my colleagues. I almost passed out. FML
Today, I was giving a presentation to my college class. I've had a natural stutter my whole life, so I stuttered through the whole thing. My professor tried to hold in her laughter for 15 minutes. FML
Today, I had a big presentation at work and I was feeling really confident. I'd practiced it over and over and I knew it inside out. But when I got up to speak, I realized I had left my notes at home. I ended up winging it and it was a disaster. FML
Today, at university, I worked up the courage to speak up in a lecture hall of 200 people. I raised my hand, made my point, and felt pretty good until the professor said, “That’s exactly what I said like five minutes ago.” Half the room turned to look at me like I'd just woken up from a nap mid-class. Which I had. FML
Today, I gave a presentation in class. I felt pretty good about it, until afterwards when I was told I lost points for communication because I'd been chewing gum. I wasn't, I just have a speech impediment. FML
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CaptainSaveAHoe 11
Extra credit points for being trilingual?
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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breathemein 10
My first day of Spanish class we had to introduce ourself to the whole class and I said "Bonjour". Lol
perdix 31
#36, so between you and the OP, the universe is back in balance.
Lionesse 15
That's not so bad, confusing the languages under pressure. French and Spanish are actually relatively similar. At least you didn't ask a German teacher for the hall pass in spanish as I did. I got several "What the ****" stares. It happens
Pyapi 20
Yeah. At least it was two languages from the same continent though. My mom one day spoke to me in French and for some reason I answered in Japanese... You can imagine how much of an idiot I felt!
ICastillo 25
Here let me try, every body else is speaking French "Bonjour, Como esta?" Ahh yeah and I don't even speak French.
RedPillSucks 33
I'm multi-lingual also. I can not speak in several languages.
lelo007 11
Que?
ICastillo 25
Ahh #74 I see you speak a little French yourself.
xrudeboyrock 29
Ha! I actually did the exact same thing on Tuesday in my French class. Just shrug it off or laugh about it.
lapetitefrenchy 1
I didn't know you guys are learning our language... You must have a cute accent :-)
Hiphuray4peas 27
Je suis désolé. La fois prochain dit bonjour!
cassie13091 10
Everybody's commenting in French and I'm just like 0.o no comprendo!
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 23
Il va falloir apprendre alors :) * You should start learning then :)
cassie13091 10
52-I'm fluent in Spanish, I never really thought I'd need to learn French.
TalkCrazy47 7
Since you are fluent in Spanish it will be easier for you to learn French. It would be easier because both languages are Latin based
cassie13091 10
I know this, and some things I can figure out what they're saying since its similar. I've just never really been interested in French. I have wanted to learn Italian though. Maybe one of these days. :)
Lionesse 15
Actually, if you know Spanish well enough, French shouldn't be extremely difficult. I only took 2 years of French but I can read it very well due to the fact that a lot of the words in French are very similar to Spanish. The only word in French that I never understood where the hell they came up with it but it's fun to say is Pamplemousse. It means Grapefruit. It's one of those... WTF words but anyway, you get my drift :)
tj4234 36
that's actually really common when you are learning a language. It means that you understand how the languages relate to each other and your brain is just choosing the easiest word to say. Embarrassing when it happens though lol.
gc327072 31
But... Spanish is so much more useful in America....
kut17 11
Not in upstate New York.
RedPillSucks 33
That's all passe. Now-adays, you've got to say something in Arabic (or Persian, for the purists), or Mandarin.