The Long Vowel

Season 2: Outside8 episodes

One word that will not translate, in under three minutes.

In each episode a guest brings a word from their own language and tells us where it lives, what it does and what gets lost on the way into English.

Hosted by Odile Marchetti and Teodor Halvorsen.

Latest episodeSeason 2Episode 61:57

Jugaad: the fix that should not work

Kavya Ranade runs a repair café in Pune. Jugaad is the clever fix made with what you have, and also the shortcut that is not always correct.

0:00 / 1:57The word

With Kavya Ranade · Repair café organiser, Pune

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