When I hear "cette semaine" my brain sometimes decides that it's spelled "sept semaines" the first meaning this week, the latter meaning seven weeks.
"On fête" is another thing I think I'm hearing. If this was actually the case there would be sooo many parties going on since it means "We Party"...if they even use party as a verb...I highly doubt it. What is really being said is "En fait", which is super confusing because "fait"(the conjugation of the verb faire-to do-for il/elle he/she) is typically pronounced "fay". So it's real meaning is "in fact". This is why I always want to know how things are spelled.
Another fun thing I keep discovering is that, besides the grammar structure rules I've learned in school there are many other crazy rules about word order. In English, we have much more freedom with our sentence structure. The simplest example I recently learned is that you would never say "Ou suis je?" which for us would be "Where am I?" You can't put "suis" before "je".
Another good example of easy mix-ups are the words ver, vers, vert, verre which mean worm, towards, green, glass in that order.
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