You know you have foreign languages on your brain when…

[pne]

…you see someone on Facebook using the pseudonymous family name Chaoszicke and your first impulse is not to read it [ˈkaːɔsˌt͡sɪkə] but rather as [xaoˈʂit͡ske], as if it were Polish.

(I blame the ch and sz in close proximity. And having met someone from Poland called Choroszucha which also has ch-sz-.)

Comments

[pauamma]

My first impulse is to pronounce mein in "chow mein" as [maɪn], not [meɪn]. (And I was told that the first time I came across it as a kid, someone corrected me and I replied that "well, I ordered it, so it's mine now", but I'm not sure whether that was me misreading "mein" as "mine", or attempted justification after the fact.)

[green_knight]

Worryingly, I also tried to parse it as a slavic word, rather than a German one, even though I'm familiar with it.