i wanna tell a story about it but in it the false use of words is not my guilt at all :D im a turk and i went to germany for holiday.when i was there a funny thing happened :D i and a friend of mine went out and then we came back to home.when i was near our house door my friend told me-im going to stadt again-and when he was going, i shouted at him GİTME GEL-dont go,come here- at the same time a german woman walking on the pavement gave me money pehh i didnt understand what she was doing :D but later my penny droped. :D this GİTME GEL-dont go ,come here-pronunces in german like -GIB MIR GELD- (it means give me money) :D do u wonder what happened after the woman gave me money :D nothing at all :D i just gave it back to her :D :D :D

Just yesterday I was speaking with a Russian woman on Skype. My son needed my help with something, so I said to her in Russian, "I have to leave now. I need to help my son." I must have used the wrong ending in one or more of the words, for she said to me, "Oh, I didn't know you had a cow!"

If you can appreciate the humor in some mistranslations, I suggest you check out Engrish.com. It's a website dedicated towards humorous mistranslations of signs and advertisements and such. It's focused mostly on Japan, but there are quite a bit from China, and Korea, and various other places, although I think the entirety is focused on the eastern world. If you're very sensitive towards this sort of thing it may not be for you, but if you have a good sense of humor I'm sure you can appreciate it! ^^

my husband is german. In the early days he talked a lot with the word 'dammit' in conversation. I asked him why are you always swearing, saying 'damn it'!! Dammit in german means with that..therefore... or so...

ok this was when i was young... maybe when i was 8, this was when i was in second grade. my mom and papa would work when i was done with school so they would always ask my grandma to look after me. she was a nice women, but the olny problem with her is that she olny spoke lao. (that's my second language. my first language was english) at that time my lao was really poor. every time i said something it would mean like another thing because in the lao language they use tones, so there could be high tones, low tones, and normal tones. ok i tried to say this : "" what time do my parent comes home"" i didnt know how to say this and i also remember the first time i used a phone was like when i was 10. so i looked it up in a dictionary i had. i found the words: what, time, do, comes and home. i couldnt find one for ''my'' because there was like a billon listed anyways i know for parents i could just say mommy and papa. i just had to find ''my''. i remembered my dad would always say ''gu'' when he was infering to his stuff, so i thought that was my so i put my whole sentence together: jak moong ma gaap pa cong gu see maa ?? when i said this to my grandma she just got shocked and kinda stood there for a while... then she started yelling at me... i was totally clueless of what she said, i remember hearing crazy and that was the olny word i could deciper. when my parents came home i asked them what ''gu'' meant, they told me it was bad word refering to i and my and me. then they were like why did you learn it... i said i heard it from my dad. then my mom and dad started laughing... my mom said '' honey, you can olny use ''gu'' when you talk to bestfriends, if you use it for old people like grandpa and grandma they get mad. i was like ''???????????????????????????????'' after that.... ok i think i wrote a lot down... i think im just going to leave it at this... : ]