Multilingual Puns

In Urdu, the word for "peas" is "mattar." So, now that you know that, here's a joke that only bilingual Urdu speakers would understand.

How do peas talk? They mutter.

I got a million of them.

Puns was one of the unexpected topics that we ended up convering in our FIRST RADIO WORKSHOP on Tuesday night. Listen in to the latest podcast episode to hear some potential Japanese puns.

What other multilingual puns do you know?

Leave a message, leave a comment. Tell us the words we need to know first, and then make us laugh. If we get good ones we'll post to the podcast.

Answered! Give up / Give in

For the first interactive audio Q&A feature, an English language learner asked, "What's the difference between give up and give in?


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Here's a nice, 1-minute mashup (with music) of what RadioLingual listeners had to say.


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