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LANGUAGE HUMOR AT ITS FINEST

Making yourself more proficient in English need not be a drag. You can actually speed up the learning process and make it fun by generously lacing it with humor—but preferably the best that the English language can offer.

In this new section, apart from giving a fixed slot to our weekly “In a Lighter Vein” pop-out humor piece in the Forum homepage, we have put together the finest of those weekly humor pop-ups since the Forum started. The best of them—collected from various sources on the web and sent in by friends—are all here, posted in the Forum under the following headings: Wordplay, On the Job, Student and School Life, and Miscellany.

So if you missed any of the best of the Forum’s weekly humor pop-ups, you can enjoy and savor them again and again here—and better still, share them with your friends!

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How to say “Happy New Year” in any country

Language                          Happy New Year
Afrikaans                            Gelukkige nuwe jaar
Arabic    Sana                    Sa-eeda
Bengali                 Shuvo Nabo Barsho
Cambodian                         Soursdey Chhnam Tmei
Catalan                 Feliç Any Nou
Chinese (Mandarin)            Xin Nian Kuai Le  謹 賀 新 年
Croatian               Sretna Nova godina
Danish                                Godt Nytår
Dutch                                 Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
Eskimo                 Felican Novan Jaron
Finnish                  Onnellista Uutta Vuotta
French                                Bonne Année
Gaelic                                 Bliadhna mhath ur
German                Prosit Neujahr
Greek                                 Kenourios Chronos
Hawaiian                            Hauoli Makahiki Hou
Hebrew                L’Shannah Tovah
Hindi                                  Naye Varsha Ki Shubhkamanyen
Hong Kong                        Sun Leen Fai Lok
Hungarian                           Boldog Ooy Ayvet
Indonesian                          Selamat Tahun Baru
Iranian                                Saleh now mobarak
Iraqi                                   Sanah Jadidah
Irish                                    Bliain nua fe mhaise dhuit
Italian                                 Felice anno nuovo
Icelandic               Farsælt komandi ár
Japanese                            Akimashite Omedetto Gozaimasu
Korean   Saehae Bock Mani ba deu sei yo
Kurdish                Newroz Pirozbe
Latvian                 Laimīgo Jauno Gadu!
Lithuanian                           Laimingu Naujuju Metu
Maltese                Is Senat Tajba
Nepal                                 Nawa Barsha ko Shuvakamana
Norwegian                         Godt Nyttår
Papua New Guinea             Nupela yia i go long yu
Persian                               Saleh now ra tabrik migouyam
Philippines                          Manigong Bagong Taon
Polish                                Szczesliwego Nowego Roku
Portuguese                         Feliz Ano Novo
Punjabi                 Nave sal di mubarak
Romanian                           An Nou Fericit
Russian                 С Новым Годом (S Novim Godom)
Samoa                                Manuia le Tausaga Fou
Serbo-Croatian    Sretna nova godina
Slovak                                A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovenian                            Sreèno novo leto
Somali                                Iyo Sanad Cusub Oo Fiican
Spanish                Féliz Año Nuevo
Swahili                 Heri Za Mwaka Mpyaº
Swedish               Gott nytt år!
Sudanese                            Warsa Enggal
Tamil                                  Eniya Puthandu Nalvazhthukkal
Thai                                    Sawadee Pee Mai
Turkish                 Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian                            С Новым Годом Z novym rokom
Urdu                                  Naya Saal Mubbarak Ho
Vietnamese                         Chuc Mung Tan Nien
Welsh                                 Blwyddyn Newydd Dda

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