https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/e9c0788f-80e0-4f29-88c7-92e5c8054b17 Technology offers new ways to translate between languages. Is this translation accurate? How does it work? Learn some new vocabulary with Sam and Rob as they discuss the relationship between translation, technology and the human brain. This week's question: Braniff, an American airline, famously made a translation error in one of their adverts. How did they mistranslate the phrase "fly in leather"? a) fly in lava b) fly on a cow c) fly naked Watch the video to find out the answer! Vocabulary metaphor way of describing a person or thing by comparing it to something else, often found in poetry and literature It's raining cats and dogs! (idiom) It is raining heavily! chunk a large part of something rote learnt by memory in order to be repeated rather than properly understood automated done by machines instead of humans flummox confuse someone so much that they don't know what to do You can find a quiz and more on our website! https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2022 [Cover: Getty Images] More 6 Minute English episodes: Going through the menopause https://youtu.be/z2JsYmGmF8E Bitcoin's energy cost https://youtu.be/DD9IbPnCxMM The benefits of boredom https://youtu.be/8XOA3-XwTaQ 'I love my language!' https://youtu.be/2z6A62BO2zc Making sense of the census https://youtu.be/u6GOoQnJicg How can we make the web a better place? https://youtu.be/wMQjmpVgor8 🤩🤩🤩 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more English videos and podcast English to help you improve your English 👉 http://tinyurl.com/ps3hplv ✔️ Visit our website 👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish ✔️ Follow us on Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/bbclearningenglish ✔️ Find us on Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/bbclearningenglish.multimedia ✔️ Join us on TikTok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@bbclearningenglish We like receiving and reading your comments - please use English when you comment 😊​​​​ #bbclearningenglish #learnenglish #translation #translate Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:45:54 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.pavel-english.ru https://video.pavel-english.ru/client/assets/images/icons/icon-96x96.png https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/e9c0788f-80e0-4f29-88c7-92e5c8054b17 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.pavel-english.ru/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.