So before I had written on here some funny moments where Russian just wins (most moments), but here's some more recent ones for your reading pleasure.
Chicken/Cinnamon/Smoking
Chicken (курица) and Cinnamon (корица) sound similar. However, there's a big difference between ordering bread with cinnamon and bread with chicken. It's also never fun to order chicken in your coffee by mistake and have everyone laugh at you. Nobody likes that. Then when you add in the verb infinitive 'to smoke' (курить) it gets really crazy. All I'm saying is that sometimes my food orders get a little crazy...
Danger is my middle name
So I've been having problems with the word late (поздно). Sometimes I'm right- 'Valya, I'm going to be home late', or 'Sorry- I'm late'. Other times, I get it confused with опасно (dangerous). This changes 'I'm late' to 'I'm dangerous', and 'I'm coming home late' to 'I'm coming home dangerously'.
Chicken/Cinnamon/Smoking
Chicken (курица) and Cinnamon (корица) sound similar. However, there's a big difference between ordering bread with cinnamon and bread with chicken. It's also never fun to order chicken in your coffee by mistake and have everyone laugh at you. Nobody likes that. Then when you add in the verb infinitive 'to smoke' (курить) it gets really crazy. All I'm saying is that sometimes my food orders get a little crazy...
Danger is my middle name
So I've been having problems with the word late (поздно). Sometimes I'm right- 'Valya, I'm going to be home late', or 'Sorry- I'm late'. Other times, I get it confused with опасно (dangerous). This changes 'I'm late' to 'I'm dangerous', and 'I'm coming home late' to 'I'm coming home dangerously'.
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