Language Barrier, Part 3

Katie and her Spanish teacher, for some reason, were talking about my maturing age. On mentioning that I had turned 30, her teacher reacted rather strongly: "Oo, a difficult age. In Argentina we say that is the age when they start to go a little crazy... "

Ignoring the obvious reply ("How would you tell?"), Katie replied that in the UK we talk about the mid-life crisis as starting in the forties.

"Si", Katie dijo, "En los cuarentas los hombres a veces quieren sentir mas joven... (In their forties men like to feel a little younger) Y entonces ellos hacen relaciones con sus secretarias (So they have relations with their sectaries), o ellos compran una Porsche. (Or they buy a Porsche)"
"Por que, una pollo", dijo la profesora confuso.

Amazing, the word 'pollo' ('ll' pronounced 'sch') and 'Por-sche' (pronounced correctly) sound similar enough to be confused. Cue hilarity.

"Si", Katie goes on. "They think that by going around with a chicken/Porsche it makes them look younger."
"But... why?"
"Well, you know, they think it will makes girls like them..."
"Verdad? A chicken?"

You can tell from the above that Katie's Spanish is pretty good, give or take the pronounciation of chicken. My language, as yet, lacks such depth.

I though I might relate this hilarious tale with Mercedes, my teacher. It was not a very good rendition of the story as I lacked most of the nouns and almost all of the verbs, and consequently descended into a rather embarrassing series of non statements.

D: "Cuanto los hermanos es viaje... mas o menas cuarenta anos..." (When the brothers is old... more or less 40 years)
M: (Confuso) "Si?"
D: "El paga por un pollo." (He pays for a chicken)
M: "Por que?"
D: "Pollo. Es un palabras similar que Porshe, el coche." (Chicken! It's a word similar to Porsche, the car)
M: Si. Er... classe termina.