{"id":920,"date":"2010-10-30T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2010-10-27T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T22:05:09","slug":"british-holidaymakers-foreign-language-gaffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/british-holidaymakers-foreign-language-gaffes\/","title":{"rendered":"British holidaymakers&#8217; foreign language gaffes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Foreign-language.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Foreign-language.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Foreign language\" width=\"211\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-921\" \/><\/a>A new study has revealed the most common mistakes made by British holidaymakers when they attempt to speak a foreign language. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Greek word for \u201cgood morning\u201d \u2013 \u201ckalimera\u201d \u2013 bears a resemblance to \u201ccalimari\u201d, while \u201cJe suis plein\u201d means \u201cI am full\u201d in French, but when mispronounced as \u201cpleine\u201d, translates as \u201cI am pregnant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Other mistakes include one holidaymaker who asked for her \u201chead baked Al Forno\u201d when trying to obtain a hairdryer. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/weird-wide-world\/8087500\/Study-reveals-common-gaffes-when-using-a-foreign-language.html\">Telegraph<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The study was carried out by a self-catering operator and also included the interesting information that 95% of Britons would attempt to speak the local language whilst abroad. I wonder how they got this statistic though \u2013 most holidaymakers would probably say they try and speak the language, but I can\u2019t imagine that many really do. And what constitutes an \u2018attempt\u2019 \u2013 saying hola to the hotel receptionist every day? Or something more complex like asking for directions? More information please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has revealed the most common mistakes made by British holidaymakers when they attempt to speak a foreign language. The Greek word for \u201cgood morning\u201d \u2013 \u201ckalimera\u201d \u2013 bears a resemblance to \u201ccalimari\u201d, while \u201cJe suis plein\u201d means \u201cI am full\u201d in French, but when mispronounced as \u201cpleine\u201d, translates as \u201cI am pregnant\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[892,123,891,888,889,890],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","tag-holiday-language","tag-language-learning","tag-languages-abroad","tag-local-language","tag-speaking-language","tag-spoken-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}