Language Learners Gifts

'Now he'll learn to spealie Bill Gates.'

'I invested in a completely new economic system for the country, but the instructions are in japanese.'

'I invested in a completely new economic system for the country, but the instructions are in japanese.'

Brussels is harmonising the food chain.

"At some point, there's only so high you can raise the volume before you admit you're never gonna understand what British detectives are saying."

'Writing a French test to keep my boring middle management government job? ...Not!'

'Because we can't afford to subscribe to the Spanish Channel!'

"Omnipotent?! I thought you said impotent. And you're out of wished, too."

"Tia Carmen, there are Spanish knock-knock jokes! But you're supposed to say 'toc-toc.'"

Subtitles are often used in film productions

A Puppet Named Juan

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

Unable to raise enough money for a trip to Paris, the Bartlesville High French Club had to settle for three days in Tulsa.

Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'

"Waitress, have you smoked salmon..?"

Campaign for Plain English

Pirate boy reciting the alphabet

"You haven't got dyslexia- the instructions are in polish."

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

I will study my speling words...

Clown teaches how to speak Jibberish

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

'Mr. Dawson, about when I said 'don't pull any punches'...'

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Punctuation Police

"You and your, 'why bother to learn another language. Everyone in the known universe speaks, Zarconian'!"

Someone who knows apostrophes

Kid in class corrects teachers spelling.

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

"Damn - another letter to the editor."