Language Cartoons

"I have to remember that Arabic is read the way it's written - right to left. I once read an Arabic recipe left to right and made a cup of rice, a pound of ground lamb, and a jar of greens out of a plate of stuffed grape leaves."

"I'm not sure if I'm stressing the right syllable in the wrong word, or stressing the wrong syllable in the right word, but it's starting to stress me out."

"Here's something. It's a language school that will teach you to speak French for $500, or for $200 they'll just give you an accent."

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

"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!"

"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."

"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."