Thread: How badly have you mangled other languages?

There was recently a thread on here asking people what languages they speak. It turns out that many of us are bi-lingual or even tri-lingual.

So with all this learning languages some of us must have embarrassingly mangled another language.

I'll start things off. Two days after I was married my mother in-law (two out of the three) and some of the family flew out from Bangkok to stay with my wife and I for a few days.

One night my mothers in-law and sister in-law were in my kitchen cooking. I wanted to make it known that I liked to cook and this was my kitchen and not my wife's kitchen.

So I said in Thai "This is my kitchen." But I stuffed it up. My wife had been teaching me to talk dirty in Thai and I got confused. What I said was closer to "This is my p&n!s." When they didn't seem to understand I just repeated myself, but louder. It wasn't until one of my mothers in-law was rolling on the floor laughing I realised I had made a mistake.

Now my Thai is a lot better but I still occasionally embarrass myself.

So, how have you embarrassingly mangled another language?