30 Times Language Barriers Made Traveling An Unexpectedly Comical Experience

When I was about seven years old, my brother and I went to the clinic my father worked at to sing Christmas carols to his colleagues and spread some holiday spirit. And one of the songs on our roster was the beloved classic Feliz Navidad

. Unfortunately, however, I didn’t know very much Spanish at the time, so I ended up singing “próspero baño y felicidad” instead of año . (In other words, I wished them a prosperous bathroom instead of year.)