Conversations at Casa López – Part 5

Here we go – my family’s most recent “bilingual moments” and funny conversations. (Be sure to share your recent funny conversations in comments!)

Carlos: (singing) Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, happy all the day…
Tracy: That’s not how it goes.

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Carlos: He stirred the soup, right?
Older son: What?
Tracy: He means stirred the pot.

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Tracy: Hey, I just thought of something. How do you say wrinkle in Spanish?
Carlos: Arruga.
Tracy: That’s what I thought. Do you think they called caterpillars the same name because they’re wrinkly?
Carlos: What?

(Me mixing up arruga and oruga and thinking they were the same word.)

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Younger son: I’m going to take Spanish class next year.
Tracy: Por eso tenemos que hablar más español, para que estes listo.
Younger son: Vaya pues.

(This was just funny because he answered in such a Salvadoran way, which is obviously not what they’ll teach him in class. In class he’ll probably learn a more standard response like “Está bien.”)

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Carlos: What’s the weather for tomorrow?
Older son: I’m not sure.
Carlos: Where’s your phone? Ask Sirius.
Tracy: You mean Siri.
Carlos: (trying to save face) Sirius is the male version.