Easy Languages: Stories of Language Learning

1: Funny Idioms, and Why You Should Not Translate Word for Word

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Hi, it's Rita and Raffaele! In this first episode of the Easy Languages Podcast, we introduce ourselves (and our accents) and discuss why we love languages. We are both part of the Easy Languages network and just recently met in Barcelona, where we produced videos about funny idioms, among other things. As our week's tip, we explain why you should stop translating individual words in your head.

Show Notes
  • Videos on idioms:
    • Foreigners Trying To Guess The Meaning of Weird French Expressions (Easy French)
    • Foreigners Try To Guess the Meanings of Weird Turkish Idioms (Easy Turkish)
    • Foreigners Guess 9 Weird German Idioms (Easy German)
    • Foreigners Guess What 7 Weird Greek Idioms Mean (Easy Greek)
    • It's all Greek to me (Omniglot)
    • Easy Spanish Podcast 61: Curiosidades de la LL, Y y X en español
      • ...more
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