Hello whopper
I was in the very early stages of learning Spanish and was walking down a street in Valencia when a local man passed me and said hola guapa. I gave him a look of contempt, ignored him and carried on walking. I thought guapa was a Spanish word for 'fat', because it sounded a bit like 'whopper'. Only a year later did I realise he actually said 'hello beautiful'. So whoever he was - ¡lo siento!
Sent by: Sam
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Many years ago, with limited Spanish, I walked into a bakers to ask for a cake. Not knowing the word for cake, I mistakenly used the French word gateau. The baker looked at me strangely before explaining that in fact I had just ordered a cat (gato)! The problem was I made it worse by saying Lo siento, estoy muy embarazada (thinking I had said sorry, I am so embarrassed). I found out later that embarazada means pregnant - so goodness knows what he thought of me!
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