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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thedish51 0
Haha the same thing happened to me, only i learned that je suis excite means your sexually excited while i was in french class giving a presentation!! hahaha
movies12 0
I swear i take French and "Je suis excite" means I am excited I am like 100% sure. Yah maybe it means that 2, but it does mean I am excited. So don't worry.
memory_loss_fml 0
It does mean that. But it's not obvious-obvious... if it was something like 'ça m'excite', I would've said FYL, but if you're a less-than-perfect French speaker, "je suis excitée" should be alright ^^ (this is native French-from-France. The funny part of this FML is how none of the natives seem to agree on the meaning XP)
Higurashidb 0
Don't worry, I'm a native french speaker, I would understand what you mean. They all know you was NOT a native speaker and of course you were likely to make this kind of mistakes... And like others people have said... If you don't say something like : Tu m'excites, ou ''ça m'excite'' it's still good. And don't worry. On ''viedemerde'' (vdm) which is the french version of fmylife, we have a lot of vdm about that. For instance a person who have said to a salewoman who asked : ''So, What do you think (about somes clothes)'' ? He answered : ''I'm touching myself''' (yeah, yeah, he SAID it... !!!). Just because in french we have an expression ''Je me tâte'' and it actually means :''I don't know yet'' or I'm hesitating... and he tried to translate this expression literraly. So I think I can assume this case is not much of a concern because your host family knew you were not a native speaker... Not the salewoman. Well, of course, it's always something you don't like to find out... ;)
marie_gal98 0
je me tâte, j'adorre cette expression très normande. ptête ben quoui, ptête ben qunon.
XRiseToFallAgain 0
I can't wait for Disneyworld next week! Can you? Of course not! I'M SEXUALLY EXCITED! :)
DieterDerBlau 0
Sounds accurate. Disney loves child molestors. Think I'm lying???
emy_du 0
it actually means both..
alwaysalady 0
Ah, language mistakes. Check out engrish.com, or thingspeoplesaid.com, and then you will feel much better about your... faux pas
BurnednBurn 0
Hahaha you're apart of Katimavik aren't you?
xFaust_fml 12
Don't worry OP. If an English speaking personne tells us that they were really "excité", we get that they translates litteraly from "excited". We're not dumb you know...
maggiewalters 17
HAHAHA op, thats actually the meaning in most languages (i'm sexually aroused, that is). and english is an exception