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Podcasts – Themes – Languages Introduction Download This support pack contains the following materials: • the article that you can listen to in the podcast • an optional comprehension activity based on the article Read the article The Meaning of Tingo by Chris Rose I recently found a book by the writer Adam Jacot Japanese, for example, may have given us de Boinod called The Meaning Of Tingo. As a manga to describe a particular style of comic native speaker of English, I was a bit confused. I book, but the English have not yet adopted the had never heard of this word “tingo”, and was useful expression katahara itai - laughing so curious about the title of the book. much that your stomach hurts. The Japanese, it As I soon found out, even if you are not a native seems, have many such useful words – another speaker, then going to your dictionary and one for example, is bakku-shan - a girl who looking up the word “tingo” will not help. In fact, appears pretty from behind but not from the front. you probably won’t find the word “tingo” there at Have you ever wanted to say that in merely one all, and not least because of the fact that “tingo” word? Now you can. is not an English word. “Tingo”, it seems, is one As well as Japanese, it seems that German is of very many words which cannot be translated also a useful language. German often makes into English – or at least one of those words “compound words” – one or more wo