Hi everyone, so in this video I thought I'd talk about some of the most
embarrassing mistakes that I've made in Spanish because we all need a little bit
of a laugh right now and I need some free therapy and talking to you guys on
camera is like therapy for me because I'm just then faced with judgment in the
comments and I'm fine with that. So of course, there are some really common typical
mistakes that people make when they speak Spanish and when they're learning
Spanish, for example ser and estar they're just one verb in English to be
so that's like confusing por and para, that's also a headache. But these
kinds of mistakes are really, really, really bad ones, really embarrassing ones
that when I tell them I do feel my face like getting redder. I think I'm probably,
I'm gonna have to really like colour edit this video I think because I'm just
gonna be going bright red a lot of the time during this video so I'm gonna tell
you some stories of some really bad really embarrassing mistakes I've made
unfortunately I still makes all these mistakes because clearly I just love
embarrassing myself I love torturing myself and I clearly
hate myself so this is me sharing these things with you to hopefully make you
feel better about yourself. Let's just wait for the ambulance... that was quick
wow it must have been driving really fast. Makes sense with them being an ambulance
the first story I want to tell is of the time when I was living in Tarragona just
a little back story I used to live in Tarragona I was there for one year
because I was studying abroad there in the second year of my university degree
so I chose to go to Tarragona because they had a programme there that sounded
really interesting blah blah blah blah not important but I was there during the
holidays and some friends from the UK came to visit me they didn't speak any
Spanish I was the only one that could speak some Spanish at the time so I was
the translator a lot of the time when we went to restaurants and things I was the one
that had to order, put it that way, so this is
what happened on this one occasion in this one restaurant that I have never
come back to. I go back to Tarragona quite a lot and I've never been back to
this restaurant it's just way too embarrassing.
I was sitting in this restaurant with my three friends who couldn't speak any Spanish
and everyone told me what they wanted from the menu and I was the one who was
elected to order and my friend wanted a chicken paella, right? If you're a Spanish
speaker you can probably predict what's coming up. I said to the waiter "una paella
de polla" and then I realised that the waiter had gone bright red and was
laughing away, just chuckling away to himself, writing I assume "paella de polla" on his
notepad. It took me a second but I realised "oh my god I just asked for a dick paella
I didn't ask for a chicken paella, I asked for a dick one. And I turned to the waiter and I just said
"no una paella de pollo, de pollo", quickly changing quickly correcting
but the damage was done it was too late my face went bright red it was
embarrassing the waiter was laughing at me and it's a good thing that I am the
kind of person to take these things as a joke because I can imagine if someone
was very sensitive about situation they probably would have been very offended
that the waiter laughed at them but thank God I'm not that kind of person
and I laughed at myself it was so embarrassing. The problem was is that the three
friends I was with because they didn't speak Spanish they had no idea what was
going on and they asked "Emma, why are you and the waiter bright red and laughing?
What's going on?" and I had to explain to them "I didn't order a chicken paella I
ordered a dick paella" then those three were laughing at me so everyone was laughing
at Emma and that's that's fine that's great but it was quite funny and the waiter
was laughing so much that he actually had to change with another
waiter. Every time he arrived to bring us drinks, refills, whatever, he just kept
laughing and then after some time he changed with another waiter and we had
another waiter instead. That's the first embarrassing...
first embarrassing story I should say, ugh now I can't even speak English. If you
thought that one was bad this one gets better. I used to live with
a family it was only for a few weeks I used to look at this family in Tenerife
and they were very nice family very sweet and I had to take care of the kid
basically speak English to their child they had one son who was very sweet and
most of the time one of the parents would be working and I would have to
look after them or we would go on day trips like me and the mum and the boy or
me and the dad and the boy and so on and on this one particular day there was me the
dad and they young boy, we'd all gone on this little road trip around Tenerife
together and I can still remember it was a very very hot day now bear in mind I'm
English anything over 12 degrees is summer to me, right? So it was really hot
for me I remember that. I was like sweating, it was really hot and I turned to the dad and I said
"wuf! Estoy cliente" and even as they say that I feel myself
going bright red but I can still remember I looked over at the dad and
he looked at me like "why you telling me this?" and I realise "oh my god I've literally
just translated I am hot" I wanted to say I was hot but what I actually said
in Spanish is "I am horny" and this poor dad of this family looked at me like "what are
you trying to say?" and I realised very very quickly "no no no that's not what I meant"
and I quickly corrected myself so if
you're learning Spanish and you're wondering what the correct thing to say
in the situation is, you should say "I have heat"so in Spanish you would say
"tengo calor" not "estoy caliente" that means you're horny. Alright, so this
next one is very similar to the last one. This one was in a different context
thank God it wasn't with the dad of that family it was with some friends at the
time some Spanish friends of mine who were talking about like some kind of
festival or some event that was going on and I wanted to say "I'm excited" like I'm
really excited to go like "oh how exciting"
and I said "estoy excitado". Now if you're a Spanish speaker
you know that excitado and excited, yes they look and sound very similar, but
they do not mean the same thing. Excited in English is "I really want to go. I feel
happy about going", right? Excitado means you are sexually
excited, you are horny... again. I clearly just love announcing that I am horny
to my friends and to other people. Really, what I should have
said was "estoy emocionada" I should have said that but in my English brain
at that time when I was first learning I basically used a false friend so excited
and excitada or excitado if you're a male using it, okay? To me they looked the
same they sounded the same I thought it was safe to use this and it wasn't it
wasn't but now I've learned my lesson but I do catch myself sometimes when I
want to say I'm excited about something I do find that I start to say "estoy ex.." aghh "emocionada"
I do quickly change. That's the problem with false friends is that
sometimes they can get you in a lot of trouble like this one.
Luckily it was just with some friends so I really wasn't in that much trouble but
they laughed at me and it was embarrassing. Now this, this one, this one
is the worst one this one is one that I don't think I've told many people
because it really really is embarrassing and this highlights
why pronunciation is so important because.. well, you'll see you'll see
you'll see why I think presentation is so important and it's part of the reason
why I started my channel. My bad experiences of getting into situations like this I
don't want anyone else to fall in a situation like this because it really
was embarrassing. I was talking to my landlord, this is when I was living in
Spain and rent in Spain, and I wanted to say to my landlord that I can
pay for the rent but I didn't say that the word pay is pagar
okay? So I wanted to say "puedo pagar for the rent" I can pay for the rent but
I didn't say pagar, for some reason I confused the pronunciation and I said
"puedo pajar for the rent" now pajar is very similar to pajarse which means to
masturbate (or "wank", British English) I still remember I was looking at my landlord very seriously
and you know I was telling him you know I can pay for the rent etc and trying to
use my limited Spanish at the time I was trying to use gestures to help. Oh it's so cringy is
this story I feel myself going red already. I was using gestures at the same time and
I think what I was trying to do was do like a money thing like this like do a
money gesture but I was also doing this at the same time. Put two and two together
and you get a situation like "puedo pajar for the for the rent,
yeah?" My landlord his eyes he was this old guy his eyes lit up. I can't even tell this
story. He looked at me and he said "puedes pagar for the rent?"
and I realised ok yeah I confused the pronunciation I confused the pronunciation
that's ok but I didn't know what pajar or pajarse meant at that time so
I was telling a friend about the situation and I said to
her, you know, "oh I was talking to my landlord and tried to tell him that I can pajar for the rent"
and she's like "Emma that's really not good"
so yeah "pajar is like pajarse da da da" explained it to me and now
I can see why my landlord's eyes opened extremely wide at me saying this but it was
just an important lesson that pronunciation is so important, okay?
Pagar. I've learnt that now I've never made that mistake again. Now the last one
is a really common one actually but still nevertheless quite embarrassing it
was around New Year's like New Year's Eve, New Year's Day kind of time and I
had messaged like just sent a WhatsApp message to lots of different
spanish-speaking friends, families that I used to live with, an au pair with, and so
on. I told them all "feliz ano" ano not ano but
"feliz ano nuevo". Now, I didn't have the ñ (eñe) on my keyboard so I couldn't
write año but the thing is is that I didn't know that ano meant something
else, which, it means anus if you don't speak Spanish. So I was wishing people a happy
new anus. And I had no idea. I'd of course sent this message to like families I worked for
and everything and some friends actually go back to me and where like "Emma you really
really really need you the eñe because you just wished loads of people
happy new anus". So that is the end of this video that is my tragic life I hope
it has given you some laughter, some joy, some entertainment during this time
because you know we're all inside and we may as well laugh at Emma's life because who
doesn't love a little bit of self-deprecation. This is so embarrassing
it really is when I think about it all. I don't even know why I'm making this... no I tell you
why I'm making this video because I want show people that if these situations
happen and you do make a mistake you will live after these mistakes you will
survive, okay? You will be very embarrassed and very ashamed in those
situations but you will survive from them you're not going to die by making
these mistakes I just wanted to share mine because I don't want people to feel
embarrassed about their mistakes because mine are really bad and if you make a
grammatical mistake it cannot be any worse than me saying
any of the things that I've just managed to do this video it really can't. So I
really want to give people that confidence to make mistakes because you
will learn from them. Yes, my mistakes were very embarrassing, yes I was very
embarrassed at the time, but one I learnt something new from them. Two I, well, I was
gonna say I never repeat those mistakes but from time to time I do
repeat mistakes but I've learnt from them. The last one thirdly, I've got some
funny stories to share with you now so make mistakes like these so you can tell
your friends, tell your family, tell other people, about your funny experiences and
funny mistakes and we could just laugh together and realise that this... this is okay
it is okay to make mistakes because you get some amazing stories out of it at the
end I bet a lot of you watched this and thought you know what Emma these stories
are so funny and that's great but at the time when they happened they were not
funny they were not funny at all for me it just shows that... ugh now my hair's a
mess, ugh. It just shows that we can laugh together and that's what we need
to do more. Laugh at our mistakes and embrace them because we could learn
something new from them and that's really good. Anyway, please to make me
feel better share your embarrassing stories in the
comments, share the most embarrassing one because I feel I need to hear other
people's experiences to make myself feel a bit better
after sharing this I mean this has been like therapy for me I feel like
by sharing these stories I'm opening up and I do feel a little bit better about
some of them I will be honest some of them I feel I will never get over the
trauma of experiencing but other ones I feel I'm at peace with them now and now
they're just funny stories. So yeah, please share your fun experiences down in the
comments I'm sure lots of you have these funny stories, please share them let's
laugh together, let's have some fun because language is all about that, it's
all about having fun in my opinion anyway, some people may treat it very seriously
and they may be absolutely disgusted at this video but you know I don't care.
I hope you all have a fantastic week I hope you've enjoyed this video as well
of course do give it a thumbs up if you have enjoyed it and you've liked it and
don't forget to share your experiences in the comments too. The most embarrassing
ones are always the best ones, so share those, don't be ashamed. I've shared my
most embarrassing ones with you so it's only fair you share your most
embarrassing ones with me. Have a fantastic week, guys, and I will see you very soon.
Bye bye.
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