Another one, sorry
Was when I was doing my GCSE French oral exam. We had to talk about what we did last weekend.

I was really, really pissed off because I was the last person to go and I'd spent the last hour staring at a bit of paper. I just wanted it over and done with.

So, I got cocky. When asked, I was going to say, 'last weekend, I slept'.

So I did: 'la weekend dernier, j'ai coucher'.
Though what I should have said was 'j'ai dormir'.

My French teacher (a French national) smirked and carried on.

Just before I left the school for good, she pulled me up and informed me that I had told her that on that fateful weekend, I had slept around.

I didn't study French after that.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 1:23, 4 replies)

By satan's hairy bum grapes...

did I ever suck at French.

During my French Aural (I think it's Aural, not 'Oral'), I was asked (In french):

"What do you like to drink when you are at school?"

My answer translated as:

"My Friend, who's name is Andrew"

The teacher had to breakthe rules of the exam and stop the tape as she was laughing so much...

Happy, mentally scarring days
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 5 Feb 2009, 8:52, closed)

Nah,
It's "oral", 'cos you're being marked on your spoken answers.
( Cawl, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 9:43, closed)

whenever I have to speak french nowdays
I do stuff like this, but on purpose.

I say 'je suis chaud' if it's a hot day. Now, I think you can all guess what this basically means, but the french people just think "aww, the cute english boy has a cute grasp of our language", when in reality I know exactly what I'm doing and use it as an excuse to go round France telling everyone I'm horny.
(Frozen_Banana Shaved against the grain; thoroughly unrewarding., Thu 5 Feb 2009, 12:08, closed)

I speak near fluent French and I make this mistake all the time
recently in a hotel reception where it turned out they didnt have a double room for m'ladyfriend and I, I exclaimed, thinking I was dead nice, "not to worry, (ne vous inquietez pas) we'll push them together (nous les pousserons ensemble) so as we can (afin de) shag (se coucher ensemble).

Took me a minute to figure out why the receptionist balked.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 12:16, closed)