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Hello, my name is Preah, and I am from Belize. My question is, what was your most embarrassing moment? So when I was 18 years old, I decided that I wanted to move to Mexico. I was an adult, and I felt like I could do anything I wanted. I also thought that I knew Spanish, but I quickly learned that I didn’t know as much as I thought. So I was at this mall and there was this man. He was doing a play, and he wanted to invite me on stage as a part of his play. And I kept telling him in Spanish, “Soy embarazado. Soy embarazado.” And I thought that I was saying, “I’m embarrassed” because “embarazado - embarrassed” I thought they meant the same thing. And he kept telling me, “congratulations, congratulations.” And I was like, “no, soy embarazado.” And he kept saying, “congratulations, boy or girl?” And I was like, “I am a girl,” I told him. It wasn’t until afterwards I realized, or I learned that “embarazado” or “embarazada” meant pregnant and embarrassed, what I actually wanted to say, meant “avergonzado,” right? So that was pretty embarrassing because everyone thought that I was pregnant, but I actually wanted to say that I was embarrassed.
Comprehension
1) How old was she when she went to Mexico?
2) What did she say by mistake?
3) What was she trying to say?
Vocabulary quiz
1) What does "embarrassing" mean?
2) What does "mistake" mean?
3) What does "congratulations" mean?
Audio: ELLLO.org (CC)