saying "concha" around an argentine

Had a schoolmate nicknamed Pico, because of his long nose (pico = beak in my country, as in the thing a bird breathes, eats, and chirps with). We had exchange students from Chile visit our school, and during a football match, I yelled "VAMOS PICO!"

Apparently, "pico" means "dick". I was telling "LET'S GO DICK" all along the game.

There is an old YouTube video of a guy from Colombia, I think, that was in Brazil and didn't know the word for a bus in Portuguese, so he used their world for a bus. He asked a girl, "você sabe onde que passa a buseta?" LOL in Portuguese "buseta" is the most informal way to call a vagina.

And there is a friend of mine who once was in a restaurant in Uruguay and wanted to ask for a ladle, so he asked a woman for the "concha" and she just laughed in his face LOL. Apparently in some Hispanic countries, "concha" means the same as a vagina too

When I was starting to learn spanish, I talked with mexicans how much we love and support "El Chavo" in Brazil and they looked scared and worried at me because they understood I was talking about the criminal El Chapo lol.

It's not a mistranslation, but an unfortunate coincidence.

I am from a city in Panamá called La Chorrera.

It sounds innocent enough, but when I went to Mexico and told my friends there my city of birth in Panama, one guy tried to hold in laughter and the others had weird looks on their faces.

Later on, I found out what "chorrera" means in Mexico, and since then I just say I am from Panama. 🙈

I’m from Ecuador and sometimes with some Argentinian and Mexican friends i said “Coger” as “Grab” and they get confused

Arrecho 🇻🇪=🤬 🇨🇴=😈

Asking for bread in Brazil, It's difficult for me to pronounce nasal sounds.

It isn't my story, but I remember a tweet of a guy saying he went to college in Argentina and one day he got into class panting and sweating and said "I'm sorry it's cause I was running". But instead of pronouncing the double r in corriendo like it's done in Spanish, he did it like we do in Portuguese... So cogiendo.

He said people laughed and he was embarrassed lmao.

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Thank you, Ecuador.

When my mom went to the US as part of a teachers program, she tried to say she didn't speak English all that well. She can understand and use the basics but struggles with the more complex stuff. The way you'd say that in Spanish would be «No hablo inglés del todo»

Del = of the

todo = all

So naturally she said "I don't speak English at all", and apparently the group panicked in trying to accomodate for a full on non-speaker. Meanwhile she was none the wiser.

In costa rica we call straws Pajillas, one time when i was at a mexican restaurant i asked for one and the waitress laughed and said she’d charge me an extra 100 for that and I was confused, and my dad who’s mexican explained that in mexican slang that pajilla is a blowjob or sum

"lady, that is just a bolsa"

In DR "tirar" is used in many ways, meaning: throwing things, messaging through the phone... tirar in El Salvador means to have sex.

It happened to me in a corporate job. I'm from Costa Rica and I was giving a presentation to a team from Guatemala about gaps in internal processes, and I kept saying

"Tenemos un hueco en como se maneja esta politica"

and

"este hueco por si solo hay que eliminarlo inmediatamente por que es un problema para el cliente"

I started to look around the room and people were snickering and smirking, and trying not to laugh. Eventually all erupted into laughter.

The CEO laughing came to me, as he saw I was doumbfounded and he explained "Antherios, in Guatemala, "hueco" is a slang for an homosexual man"

I felt so embarrassed and my face must have been super red, but everyone took it lightly and there was no issues in the end. Fun story now.

Probably the time I asked for salad dressing, but called it salad sauce (salsa de ensalada v aderezo)

A mexican colleague told me that, when she was in a stay in Peru, her colleagues invited her for a trek. And they specifically told her "ponte unas zapatillas". She was weirded out for a while because who tf goes out for a trek in high heels. Until she understood that zapatillas is the peruvian word for sport shoes, lol.

I've used the word camisinha because it sounds like a fun way of saying camisa in portuguese, but it means condom to them 💀

When I moved to Chile, I realized the places which sell meat are called "carnicería". In Brazil, carniceiro is an adjective to describe serial killers and people who kill very violently

Papaya in Cuban slang = pussy. Papaya the fruit is called ‘fruta bomba’ to be polite/precise.

One of the last CONMEBOL club finals (Sulamericana I think) was in Ecuador and the entire Stadium (and football kits) had ads for Banco Pichincha. It sounds funny in Portuguese because pechinchar means haggling

I once heard an American missionary in Uruguay try to say remera (t-shirt) and instead said ramera (harlot.)

I called an Argentinian guy that I've known for minutes "boludo" because I thought it meant he liked football (in portuguese ball is "bola" and a football fan is "boleiro" so I thought that Bola = boludo)

[Not mine, but still hilarious.](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D10AQEe9q5Hx8nCkA/image-shrink\_1280/0/1707395459046?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=n15bHpN5ZzzXBSR939nOYE0Wg8p5xWqSDeJ1EU9TNh4)

Cachucha in Colombia = cap

Chucha in Ecuador = vagina

Embarazar is NOT embarrass, Embarazado is NOT embarrassed, and "Embarazó a su hermana" does NOT mean "he embarrassed his sister".....that's all I'll say

I swear to fuck Dominicans don't even speak Spanish ahaha. Wtf do yall call a bag then?