German classes...

Me: Guten tag! Ich bin Juan.
Friend: Guten tag! Mein Name ist Jamal. Wie geht es Ihnen?
Me: Es geht. Und ihnen?
Friend: Danke, gut!

Translated...

Me: Good Day! I am Juan.
Friend: Good Day! My name is Jamal. How are you?
Me: So-so. And you?

Friend: Good, thanks!

And so, I’ve started taking weekly German classes. Sigh… it’s so difficult! Some people breeze through learning a new language, but it’s clearly not my forte :P Get this, if this is the range of numbers from one to five…

1) eins
2) zwei
3) drei
4) vier
5) funf

To make the number 34, it’s vierunddreizig. Basically, we direct translate to four and thirty… so it’s kind of upside down. Ehheheheh… as tough as the language is, I have to admit that there are their fun moments.

Scenario:
We’ve decorated our cubicles with some Christmas stuff. On my desk, there’s soft toy in a form of a cow that we’ve name him, “Moo Moo”.

*German colleague walks past and starts playing with Moo Moo*
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Chinese female colleague: Stop playing with my Moo Moo!!!
German male colleague: *stunned*
German female colleague: *laughs non-stop* You better explain what she said.
German male colleague: *laughs and looks a bit shy*

Chinese female colleague: It’s okay… I don't want to know.

Apparently, moo moo (apologies, cause I don’t really know how to spell it in German) is “female private part” in German.
*LOL*