Lover, be quiet!
In 2003 I spent a year teaching English at a secondary school in Galicia, Spain. As I had only been learning Spanish for 2 years at University in Scotland, I hadn't quite got my tongue round the lingo. Thus when faced by a sea of little Spanish faces with lots of odd sounding names, I occassionally got a little confused. On one such occassion, in a burst of teacherly frustration I yelled at one particularly noisy boy called Amador: ¡Amante - callate!. The rest of the class burst out laughing as I had just yelled 'Lover - be quiet!' to a 12 year old in the back row.
Sent by: Jenny
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At a bar in the Sierra Nevada, my husband ordered cuatro servicios. He didn't want four toilets; he wanted four beers!
To say beer you say cerveza. Servicio is service or, as you said, toilets. Servicio and cerveza are pronounced very similarly.
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