Aprender ingles with Reza and Craig · Craig Wealand
Funny idioms from around the world
June 15, 2025·45 min·4 clips
Reza explains the Russian idiom 'to hang noodles on someone's ears' and shares a key language learning tip about visualizing funny images.
As heard by us
A light tour of idioms that shows how the same meaning can sound very different across languages.
Reza and Craig spend the episode on idioms that travel cleanly across languages and on the ones that do not, moving through English, Spanish, French, and Hungarian examples without losing the thread.
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Learn why some idioms translate cleanly and others turn strange.
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