Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

[ellebee]

In spanish, "sopa" means soup. But a lot of people think it means "soap" and honestly, it sounds like the word soap. I've been caught accidentally saying "wash your hands with sopa" (pronounced like soap-a) instead of soap lots of times. I dont mean to tell people to wash their hands with soup I swear :,)

[☽isa☾]

Same with the close and turn off! In Mandarin chinese the word for “turn off” is “close.”

I always catch myself saying “close the light” haha!

same same same!!

[la .balrynoltrus.]

Doesn't count as a mix-up per se, but I always find myself saying Lojban "si" to try and erase the last word I said...in French.

[jinsoul]

i'm a fluent speaker of english and thai. one thing i'd always gotten mixed up is the phrase something along the lines of "it's on netflix. in thai the "on" preposition isn't very fitting as it implies it's on top of netflix. so the correct preposition to use for this phrase in thai is "in" instead of "on". I always forget this though and my thai friends tease me for it haha

[LunaClaw]

Same with the close and turn off! In Mandarin chinese the word for “turn off” is “close.”

I always catch myself saying “close the light” haha!

same same same!!

Same here!

[Amyloid]

I am a native Mandarin chinese speaker, but I can also speak fluent english. I can also speak french, german, and some spanish (although those I am still learning)
for some reason I always forget how to say September in english. Last time it turned out to be really embarrassing when I forgot how to say it, so I keep saying September in chinese ( which is 九月，by the way) and hoped that they understand chinese. They didn't. Instead they looked at me as if I'm crazy.

[FatalCollapse]

"Hello" in Siksiká is 'Oki' (Oh-kee), and with my accent we tend to carry our vowels, which in turn keeps making me confuse it for the English "Okay" (Oh-kay). The double 'ee' can sound like a 'ay' in my accent so it's a bit confusing.

[Argalis]

I'm an English-Russian mix, and sometimes I sound very English when speaking Russian. And then the more languages I pick up (see signature) the more I confuse myself. Right now it's mostly English phrases in German, I don't even want to know how much I'm screwing up the language.
Once I was really confused about a sign outside a house in Russia, because I couldn't tell if they were selling chocolate (it said СНОС which means demolition and reads as snos in Russian)

[crowfood]

I speak Swedish, English, Spanish and a teeny tiny bit Japanese, and sometimes I’ll mean to say thank you in Spanish and end up saying Arigato instead.

[Ley]

In English letter and card are interchangeable, in Spanish Letter translates to “letra” only meaning letter as in the letters in the alphabet, and card translates to “carta”, even though Spanish is my first language I have said “Te escribí una letra” (I wrote a letter (from the alphabet) for you) several times