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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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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Comments (129)
Poppipuff 14
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...
SquishFish 15
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.
greatfirstdate 18
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 :)
saksxalmo 20
It was a Catherine Tate reference. In reality, "oui", "non", and blank stares are far more common. :P
dabob 2
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.
Paradoxx5 8
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.
awkwardpenguin1 3
No I just think that is awesome
callie123amy 4
That was funny!