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Contain your excitement (French/English)

I spent last year working as a language assistant in France and, being naturally a very cheerful person and wishing to impress my French colleagues with my enthusiasm for teaching (and everything, in fact!) I regularly expressed this by saying Je suis excitée! or Je suis si excitée! It was only after four months that a kind soul pointed out the sexual connotations of this phrase, literally meaning 'I am sexually aroused'. So that's four months of being hit on by French men that I could possibly have avoided!

Sent by: Jenny

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Suzie, Cuers France 2011-03-14

Thank you for pointing this one out. I now understand why I get "that look" when I arrive at a party. Time to go and cringe

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Paul, Manchester UK 2009-12-07

And yet when one puts that phrase through a google translator,it clearly comes out with the phrase 'I'm excited or I'm so excited. So we could all trip up with this one. But not necessarily get results! of course.

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