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I wanted my class of Spanish children to make a board game and I wrongly asked them to bring un dedo (a finger) from home instead of un dado (a dice). Yes, they laughed and luckily none of them brought a finger.
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I have had a few since I got here. The Spanish R can cause problems. I wanted to say to my girlfriend that 'The computer is loading slowly'. Loading is 'cargando' but if you neglect to pronounce the rolled R, it sounds like 'cagando', an activity more suited to the bathroom than the study. Another one was due to -o vs -a. A friend of mine wanted to order a chicken sandwich in Spanish, and ran his lines by me beforehand. Chicken is 'pollo'. If you mix the o with an a, it becomes a rather more vulgar word.
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