Language Cartoons

"Now c'mon Darryl. Japanese grammatical order is subject-object-verb. Not smile-point-shrug."

"I'd ask for directions in German, but I don't know how to form a question into the shape of an apology."

"Honey, please! Be patient! How's anyone going to know what's wrong unless I find the Russian word for 'alligator?"

(Adult Ed. Conversational Hebrew) "My wife and I are taking the course together. I figure I only have to learn half as much, since she finishes all of my sentences anyway."

"Obviously you're pronouncing the phrase 'Throw us a ...' correctly in French, but the word for 'lifesaver' just isn't coming out right."

"I'm not sure what he's yelling about. It's all in French. But I think he's calling you a monster."

"You mean, 'wo', 'ta', 'baba', and 'mama' are all words in the Mandarin dialect? My gosh, Alice, our baby's been speaking Chinese the last few weeks!"

"I've lived among them my entire life, and I can tell you, 'fetch,' 'roll over,' 'sit,' 'stay,' and 'bad dog,' is the extent of their vocabulary."