Archive for August 2008

Turkish Humor

Aug 29th, 2008 | By Secil | Category: English

The people of the eastern Black Sea region in Turkey are called Laz. They speak a dialect of Turkish called “Lazca”. Laz people have often been the targets or mockery for the Turkish people. They are actually known to be clever, but sometimes they make major mistakes which become the subject of many jokes.



Proverbes anglais

Aug 28th, 2008 | By Ben | Category: Français

Il y à quantité d’expressions en français et en anglais, qui peuvent être utilisées pour illustrer à peu près n’importe quelle idée… Voici une liste des expressions, qui, selon moi, sont les plus intéressantes. Elles sont accompagnées de l’expression anglais qui leur correspond, ainsi que de leur traduction littérale



Símbolo del humor en español

Aug 28th, 2008 | By Maribel | Category: Español

El humor es una parte indispensable en cada idioma que se manifiesta, por supuesto, de formas diferentes, pues está relacionado con innumerables factores propios de cada cultura. Así mismo, las bromas van cambiando poco a poco con la introducción de nuevas palabras al vocablo.



Spanish Humor

Aug 28th, 2008 | By Maribel | Category: English

Due to the many factors that belong to a specific culture, humor, as an essential part in each language, can be shown in different ways. Likewise jokes change from time to time with the new words constantly included in the vocabulary.



Gli italiani e l’inglese

Aug 27th, 2008 | By Giulia | Category: Italiano

Gira voce che gli italiani non siano bravissimi a parlare inglese, e spesso il mondo intero si diverte a scherzare al riguardo, a volte anche in maniera un po’ offensiva, come avviene nel video sull’italiano a Malta (anche se bisogna ammettere che è davvero divertente… )



Polish Humor

Aug 27th, 2008 | By Asia | Category: English

About dumb blondes, Russians, Germans and policemen – a (non)-scientific approach to Polish humor



Feature Week: Humor

Aug 26th, 2008 | By Ben | Category: English

Throughout this week we will be posting an article every day, illustrating humor from the different countries which are featured on our website.
This is a new concept, which we call feature week… As always we welcome your comments on the matter… Throw us a line to tell us what you think, or tell us about [...]



Russian Humor

Aug 26th, 2008 | By Sevara | Category: English

The Russian are famous for their humor. Sometimes it gets a bit rude, sometimes a bit straightforward, but in general, the Russians are considered to have a good sense of humor.
Jokes are the most popular form of Russian humor. They are usually short fictional stories with a punch line. Russian jokes have a series of [...]



Modismos en español

Aug 25th, 2008 | By Maribel | Category: Español

¿Quieres aprender modismos en español? Los modismos, también conocidos como costumbres lingüísticas hacen parte imprecindible en todos los idiomas porque estan llenos de tradiciones y de cultura lingüística. Como bien sabes, el idioma español es bastante amplio y por lo tanto, los modismos son numerosos y varían de país a país.



Italians speaking English

Aug 25th, 2008 | By Giulia | Category: English

I found this video in YouTube and my first impression was: “Wow, it’s so funny!” Thinking about it I realized that it is also kind of offensive for all the Italians who make their best effort to learn English, and who try to improve (and I am actually one of them…).

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=m1TnzCiUSI0
Jokes about Italians speaking [...]