The best English mistake I’ve come across so far: the nightbox.
Sample usage:
Vincent: “So, class, what did you do this weekend?”
Student: “Zees weekend, I go to zee nightbox. I have drink lot.”
Nightbox is simply a too-literal (yet somehow wonderful) translation of la boîte de nuit (nightclub).
Since, according to their accounts, my students’ lives are primarily occupied by two activities — (1) drinking and (2) sleeping — if I can get them to talk correctly about those things, I’ll have to consider it a success.
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is the step I tell them is the most important. Liquid nitrogen,
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causing it to freeze. Avoid tight fitting collars or necklines and choose clothing that are made of cotton
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