Some humour is more visual, such as with Mr. Bean and Charlie Chaplin, which transcends language. However, when we speak different languages, we often find it difficult to say witty things that might roll off our tongue in our native languages. A lot of funny expressions, jokes and puns are only funny in one language and just cannot be translated to another. Please prepare in advance for this talk by bringing in some of your favourite untranslatable jokes, puns and funny expressions in any of these languages: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. The talk will take place in fourteen languages where we will learn jokes and puns in different languages from one another.

This video was recorded at the Polyglot Gathering in Bratislava 2017 (www.polyglotbratislava.com).

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