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#135: Luis Von Ahn on Learning Languages, Building Companies, and Changing the World

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How to Make Funnier in a Foreign Language

In foreign languages, i will go out of my way in the beginning to learn a few expressions that locals find funny. Once you get them laughing, you feel less inhibited, because the entire inner action is less serious. And od and anotherw another way you can make funnier as if you have a weird regional expression. A very easy way to do that is to find some funny proverbs. Like sarumokicatoc monkeys also fall from trees. That's a japanese expression. Even the devil eats flies, which is a funny one, which islie, desperate times call for desperate measures. When you hear the word successful, who is the first person who comes to

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