jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5035 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese
| Message 49 of 76 07 August 2011 at 5:18am | IP Logged |
My favorite kids joke:
Q: What did the Mexican fireman name his twin sons?
A: Jose and Hose B
I also love this Eddie Izzard skit that starts in English and ends in French:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1sQkEfAdfY
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Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5064 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish
| Message 50 of 76 07 August 2011 at 6:05am | IP Logged |
Some jokes in Spanish where the answers are supposed to be in Mandarin.
1. What do you call someone who's poor?
Chin chun chentavo.
(Spanish: Sin un centavo. {Without a cent.})
2. What do call a single woman?
Chin chun macho.
(Spanish: Sin un macho. {Without a male.})
- Kat
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7016 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 51 of 76 07 August 2011 at 1:13pm | IP Logged |
Continuing the Spanish-Mandarin theme in a non-pc way:
What do you call three homeless people?
Shin Lu, Shin Awa & Sin Na
[Sin Luz, Sin Agua, Sin Nada]
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lingvisten Tetraglot Newbie Hong Kong Joined 5200 days ago 16 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English, Cantonese*, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 52 of 76 13 August 2011 at 8:34pm | IP Logged |
Here's a trilingual one on youtube.
The three hunters (English-Hakka-
Hokkien)
Englishmen: You look!
Hakka: yu lok? (There's a deer?)
(Hakka shot the deer)
Hokkien: m3-si7! (No it isn't!)
Hakka: m si? (Not dead yet?) hoi do long chong! (I'll fire two more shots)
(Hakka shot again)
They approached the 'deer' and it was actually a woman
(The Hakka hunter thought the other two hunters were speaking Hakka. "You look" sounds
like 「有鹿」"There's a deer", and 「唔是」"m3-si7" in Hokkien sounds very much like 「唔
死」"It isn't dead")
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cmellor Newbie United States practicalzen.blogspo Joined 6039 days ago 27 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 53 of 76 16 August 2011 at 6:00pm | IP Logged |
Surprised no one posted this one yet! One of my all time favorites and I saw it years before I ever took an interest in learning Spanish.
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JeremyTaylorUK Triglot Newbie Czech Republic jeremytaylor.eu Joined 4362 days ago 2 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English*, German, French
| Message 54 of 76 22 December 2012 at 12:28pm | IP Logged |
A French boy studying English fancied his teacher. He asked her in his best English: Hey,
teacher, you want 'ave some 'anky panky wiz me?
The teacher replied: Wiz you? Never!
The boy replied. Tres bien. Mais peut-etre never et demi?
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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 55 of 76 22 December 2012 at 2:02pm | IP Logged |
This one is done with a thick Argentinian accent:
I like the way those pants fit you. They make jordache stick out.
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hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe
| Message 56 of 76 22 December 2012 at 2:14pm | IP Logged |
Phantom Kat wrote:
Some jokes in Spanish where the answers are supposed to be in
Mandarin.
1. What do you call someone who's poor?
Chin chun chentavo.
(Spanish: Sin un centavo. {Without a cent.})
2. What do call a single woman?
Chin chun macho.
(Spanish: Sin un macho. {Without a male.})
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"Chiquilladas", a popular program in Mexico in the 80s, was chock full of jokes like
this.
Also, La India Maria used to have all sorts of pronunciation gags with her Spanish. I
*loved* her sense of humor.
R.
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