Practise recovering from a Spanish slip, with an AI that grades you

A medium-level scenario that starts right after the classic mistake: you told the host you were pregnant. Now explain, laugh it off and learn what you meant.

Every learner makes a metida de pata (literally "putting your foot in it") sooner or later, and the most famous one is estoy embarazada, said by someone who meant they were embarrassed. It means "I'm pregnant", and in Mexico it will get you hugs and congratulations before anyone realises what happened. The useful skill is not avoiding every slip, it is recovering from one: stopping the conversation, saying what you meant (quise decir…), laughing at yourself and moving on.

Juntos rates "La metida de pata" medium: the AI plays Paty, who is hosting a party in Mexico City and has just heard you announce estoy embarazada. She congratulates you, asks how many months along you are and calls her friends over until you explain clearly. Once you do, she laughs and teaches you the words you were looking for: me da pena and qué vergüenza. It is a good scenario for the past tense (quise decir, me equivoqué) and for the other false friends that catch English speakers.

10 phrases you'll need

Spanish	English
¡No, no! Perdón, me equivoqué de palabra.	No, no! Sorry, I used the wrong word.
No estoy embarazada. Quise decir que me da mucha pena.	I'm not pregnant. I meant that I'm really embarrassed.
¡Qué vergüenza! Ya entendí mi error.	How embarrassing! Now I get my mistake.
En inglés, "embarrassed" suena casi igual.	In English, "embarrassed" sounds almost the same.
Me da pena hablar delante de tanta gente.	I get embarrassed speaking in front of so many people.
¡Qué oso! Ahora todos creen que voy a tener un bebé.	How embarrassing! Now everyone thinks I'm having a baby.
¿Qué otras palabras me pueden meter en problemas?	What other words could get me into trouble?
Gracias por explicármelo con tanta paciencia.	Thanks for explaining it to me so patiently.
Bueno, por lo menos ya nunca se me va a olvidar.	Well, at least I'll never forget it now.
¿Brindamos por mi primer gran error en español?	Shall we toast to my first big mistake in Spanish?

How the AI session works

You open the La metida de pata scenario (you just said "embarazada". explain, laugh, recover) and the AI takes the other role. In the app this scenario is rated medium, which sets the vocabulary, sentence length and pace the AI starts with. You can also choose easy, medium or hard for any scenario, so the same conversation grows with you from A2 to B2.

Every message you send is scored 0–100 for grammar, vocabulary, fit with your level and how quickly you replied. Tap the score and you see one clear piece of feedback and the specific corrections: what you wrote, what a native speaker would have written, and why. Mistakes that keep recurring are filed into your Error Bank and come back in spaced-repetition reviews.

Prefer to speak? AI Call mode runs the same scenario by voice: tap the mic, say your line, and the AI transcribes it, replies out loud in Latin American Spanish and grades your spoken turn. For a situation like this one, doing it by ear is the closest thing to the real conversation.

3 mistakes learners make here

Estoy embarazada. → Me da pena. / Qué vergüenza. Embarazada means pregnant. In Mexico embarrassment is pena; vergüenza works everywhere.
Realicé mi error. → Me di cuenta de mi error. Realizar means to carry out (realizar un proyecto); "to realise" is darse cuenta de.
Hice un error. → Cometí un error. / Me equivoqué. In Spanish you cometes a mistake rather than hacer one, and me equivoqué is the everyday way to own it.

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Questions people ask

Does embarazada mean embarrassed in Spanish?

No, it means pregnant. To say you are embarrassed in Mexico, use me da pena or qué pena; qué vergüenza is understood everywhere. In Spain, qué pena usually means "what a shame" instead.

How do I correct a mistake I made in Spanish?

Say it plainly and laugh: perdón, me equivoqué, quise decir que me da pena (sorry, I got it wrong, I meant I'm embarrassed). Quise decir (I meant) is the phrase that rescues most slips.