When I was visiting my mother's family in Germany, I would say what i thought was "good night" and it came out "good naked." What a laugh I got and many good lessons.
My DD went to Germany as a teen, and tried to do her best. My aunt offered her some more soup, and when she thought she was saying "I've had enough" she said "It's sludge."
trisinger, I was the bane of my German teacher's life. I could not figure out how to pronounce umlauts. And since she had an umlaut in her name (Mueller), well, I was in deep doo-doo the entire semester. Fortunately, they only required one semester for the foreign language requirement, and I escaped before she did me in (or vice versa).
When I went to Germany to meet family with my mom just before my mom passed on, she was so sick that when she had a little bit too much dark beer, she would only speak German. One night, she asked only for a small glass, a shot glass of beer because she didn't want to get tired. Well, we counted something like 27 shot glasses of dark beer. She would translate for me the conversation. Around nine at night, she translated what was just said in the best and slowest German that she could. Everyone had a good laugh, even her after we explained what she had done, and we told her it was time for her to go home to bed.
Aren't we all on a Schlitterbahn? Might as well have a few laughs while we slip. Gute nacht alle. (Joan, that just means, good night.) Sorry. All done in fun.