This is an episode of my new show Spanish Quiki, and it comes with a surprise at the end.

Let's.

Hello, Quiki lover!

Welcome to a new episode of Spanish Quiki, short, fun and slightly cheeky Spanish lessons for beginners.

My name Marco Fierro, your professor Latino de Spanish, and in this episode I'll help you avoid a mistake many Spanish beginners make, the use of the word excitado.

Are you excited about this episode?

Sure.

Let's go.

I was chatting with a student about her upcoming trip and she said,

I'm very excited.

Ah, aye, aye.

If she only knew.

Since I speak English, I knew she meant excited.

But a Latino who doesn't speak English might hear something very different.

Excitado in Spanish is used in a more intimate, spicy context.

You don't want to say,

I'm excited when meeting someone,

because in Spanish,

excitado means sexually aroused, horny.

But it doesn't mean excited.

This is what we call a false friend, a false amigo, words that sounds similar in English and Spanish, but mean different things.

So, what could you use instead?

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