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Last time we dealt with culturally specific concepts that do not easily translate, because they are missing their counterparts in other languages. This time our two hosts find a bunch of peculiar things in the American school system, that don\'t exist in Germany and - to some extent - are also foreign to Brits.

When Peter arrives late for the recording of this episode he has a very good excuse: He was looking for a word. A word that doesn\'t exist. You wonder how that\'s possible and why Peter still made it for the recording? Well, Roger saves him some of the trouble. Listen in now...

We are back with David Erent and English as a lingua franca. David and Peter are going to look at how the use of English outside of its native territories affects other languages and speaker communities such as the French, the Finns, and the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland.