Mistakes in my current language, that has many similar sounding words and letters to a non native. Some of these sounds are like some sounds in English where "e" is pronounced differently either like an "e" or sometimes quite hard by some natives as "a' or somewhere in between. Also the extra letter I that looks like a CAPITAL i causes English learners severe problems for a long time.

Mistakes

I called the parents of someone when being introduced babies instead of mother and father.

I said please fart (break wind) at the table instead of sit at the table. They sound similar to a new learner fart and

sit.

I have made many more but these two were embarrassing.

Yes we learn from our mistakes and if we laugh at them we recover better and never<s> forgo</s>t forget, if we brood on the mistakes and get anxious; the mistakes get worse.

You know, I'd prefer that my teacher doesn't laugh at my mistakes. I often can realize what exacltly I said without any laugh from the person I talk to. I know it may be funny when you say something unexpected and similar to a different word with another meaning but laugh gets me more unconfident than before in such situations. If I said something funny accidentally but it wasn't a joke from my side, I'd prefer a smile (not laugh) and an explanation what I said in a wrong way.

laugh is ok, criticism is ok, but don't judge and say something sarcastic

Congratulations.

I can see that your English is improving with every sentence you write.

I'm glad that you support the notion that mistakes are no more than part of the learning process.

Thank you for contributing to the discussion.

Thank you for sharing your language learning experience.

Your Italian mistake is very funny, so we should laugh.

Saying that men or women are responsible for all the problems in the world is quite humourous.

I'm glad that the word "problem" is a neutral word in English, so no one is to blame... :)

Thank you for your good comments.

I agree.

A teacher should never laugh at a student's mistake.

I hope you know that my discussion was not referring to a teacher-student interaction.

I was talking about laughing at ourselves.

I was talking about me laughing at the silly mistakes I make when I speak another language.

I was also suggesting that we all laugh at our mistakes because some of the mistakes are funny and making mistakes is always part of the learning process.