Today, I learned that "Je suis excité" does not mean "I'm excited" in French. It means "I'm sexually excited"... more or less. I've been doing a lot of exciting things and using it a lot the past two weeks. With my French friends, people I meet, and especially with my host family. 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'm in Spain, and told the kids with whom I will be working that I was excited to be working with them. Only the form of excitement I used apparently refers to sexual excitement. Basically, I told the kids I was sexually aroused to be working with them. FML
Today, I am a Frenchie who's been in England for two months. While wanting to say to my technician that my manager made me groan during our meeting, I said that he made me moan. Now he keeps looking at me with a grin on his face. FML
Today, I tried to impress a French student by saying “Bonjour!” but instead said “Bordel!” which means “Brothel.” She laughed, and so did every one of the french students around us. My cultural street cred is officially dead. FML
Today, I realized that in French, my name means "penis." This wouldn't be so bad if my dad wasn't fluent in French. FML
Today, I realised the only preparation I've done for my final French exam has been wanking off to French porn. FML
Today, my girlfriend, who recently started French classes, and I were having sex. Knowing how whispering in my ear turns me on, she whispered something in French, and I came. Later I found out it meant something like, "You should lose a lot of weight." FML
Today, whilst reading all 15 pages of this site, my French girlfriend asked me over my shoulder for translations, such as "What is buttsex?", "What is wanking?", and "What means farted?" 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 spent my first night with my English boyfriend. I'm French, and when we woke up, I said in my most sexy voice, "Oh, I'm so dirty!" It's only when he left that I finally understood the look on his face; I wanted to have a glass of water. I was thirsty, not dirty. FML
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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Gwyddhien 0
Don't worry... I'm a native French speaker, and "je suis excité" isn't that bad and can be used with non-sexual things as well
sooper 0
Hahaha, they must think you have some great fun ;D
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catatonicsleep 17
i think i've seen one like this before.... if you had made a really big mistake i'm sure they would have told you early on, not let you say it to everyone if it was really bad.
arienh4 0
Yeah, #38, you have, I believe it was Italian though. Exact same FML otherwise.
Paysan_Canuck 0
It's a pretty standard mistake. Just make sure you don't say something or other has aucun préservatif - preservatif is condom in French, conservateur is preservative. :) You in Lyon or thereabouts? PM me!
MDX_fml 0
Je suis française du nord, et chez nous c'est tout à fait normal d'employer "exciter" pour dire que nous sommes excités par quelque chose sans connotation sexuelle. For some people "je suis excité" means both "i am excited" and "i am sexually excited" it depends on the context.
chellinha93 0
The same thing happens in Portuguese and Spanish... but it's not that bad
Chfanfiction 0
This sounds a lot like the eccitato- emocionanzo one.
541 0
I'm sure they understand.
LauraGarinois 0
I'm French, from Paris and it doens't mean that unless you say "Tu m'exites" (You excite me) etc. Otherwise its pretty normal.
wingedspiritus 0
Agreed. I'm not french, but I took French classes (focusing on France's) and there's nothing wrong with that. o_o; I usually used heureux instead though.
SimpleSimon 0
I love languages... I used to climb with a guy called Danni Köntz... 'I have a reservation at the guest house' 'Name?' '*****' Priceless!
nerdking21 10
I don't know whether to laugh or be upset at you. You would look like a fool though if the person you were talking to knew what you were talking about.
hilsonshipper 0
Wow, this particular translation was not passed down through my French teacher. But in all seriousness, be careful with your words. As in, "preservatif" does NOT mean preservative, but rather "condom." So don't go around saying American bread has "preservatifs" in them or else you might get some REALLY funny looks. (As did a friend of my French I teacher.)