We thought we were doing great. But sometimes we would get strange looks. Apparently, as we later figured out, Zack was saying something that sounded more like “I hate Zack.”
Literally, a tire hotel. It’s also where you can buy tires. But basically, you pay to store them and to have them changed out twice a year.
So we’re there, waiting on the guy who’s doing the paperwork. Another guy walks up to me and asks if he could help me.
Here’s the thing I’ve mentioned before: you typically rehearse dialogue before completing a task. Well, we’d already used all of that dialogue with the other guy, so I’d kind of filed it away.
And in my haste to answer him, instead of saying I’m here about tire storage, I tell him that “I am a tire hotel.”
We were visiting with friends, but it was time to leave. Zack was excited to speak in Norwegian as he told his friend he needed to go and hang molding (trim) on the walls. Only he didn’t say that.
No, Zack was going home to hang lust on the walls.
Life Lesson: learn to laugh at yourself!
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Learning a new language is challenging. It’s even harder if you don’t learn to laugh at yourself.
In the spirit of laughing at ourselves, I thought it would be fun to periodically share some of our language mix-ups. Times when we thought we totally had it together, but were so very wrong.
So be on the look-out for more on this soon!