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Yo soy Anabel y tengo muchas ganas de traerte tres chistes que pondrán a prueba tu español. I have chosen three jokes that will test your Spanish, but that will also teach you something interesting about the language. Si te interesa, no te vayas muy lejos, que empezamos. El primer chiste es una conversación y dice así. Hola, tienen libros para el cansancio? Sí, pero están agotados. Did you get this one? Let's look at it in more detail. It starts with hola, tienen libros para el cansancio. Hello, do you have books about tiredness? I'm declaring answers. Sí, pero están agotados. Yes, we do, but they are agotados. And here is where the joke comes from. Agotado has two meanings in Spanish. Exhausted and out of stock. So the customer is looking for books about tiredness, but the books are exhausted or out of stock, or maybe both. Now, just for extra knowledge, let's see agotado in a different context. Can you guess if we are using agotado meaning exhausted or out of stock? El ejemplo es no pude comprar la camisa que quería porque estaba agotada. The translation is I couldn't buy the shirt I wanted because there was no stock or because it was out of stock. So here agotada, which agrees with camisa, then is used as out of stock. Genial, buen trabajo. Ahora vamos a ver nuestro siguiente chiste. And we level up a bit and for the next joke we need some very basic knowledge of chemistry, but nothing too fancy, don't worry. And what I like about this joke is that now we don't have a play on words, but the funny bit is in the pronunciation. So listen carefully. ¿Cómo se despiden los químicos? How do chemists say goodbye? Well, the pun is ácido un placer. Ácido means acid, a substance that may dissolve other materials. However, ácido also sounds close to ácido. As in ácido un placer. It has been a pleasure. Now, if my accent would have been different and I would have pronounced the thú sound as sú, this joke will also work. Ácido un placer. So what I really like about this joke is that it proves that native speakers are going to understand you whether or not you pronounce the sound thú. Es genial, no crees? Now here comes the last joke and it is very nice because it uses a very interesting grammar point that might be a bit tricky for some learners, but it is very, very useful. El chiste dice así. Doctor, dígame la verdad. ¿Tengo problemas de memoria? Que sí. The translation is something like, doctor, tell me the truth. Do I have memory problems? And the doctor says, yes you do. What I like about this joke is that it is subtle and that the give-away is a very interesting and super useful grammar point, which is the use of qué. There at the beginning of the sentence. The doctor is not saying sí. They are saying qué sí. So what does it mean? Well, first of all, maybe you have heard phrases like qué aproveche or qué lo pases bien, which are wishes and that is why we have the subjunctive en aproveche and pases. We start with qué because when we say qué aproveche, it's like saying espero qué aproveche or espero qué lo pases bien in qué lo pases bien. However, that espero is not necessary because we get it from the context that it is a wish. Ahora bien, ese es uno de los usos de qué, pero no es el uso de este chiste. So that is one of the uses of qué when it appears at the beginning of the sentence, but it is not the use that we are using here in this joke. The type of qué used in qué sí is a bit different. Now it is not a wish, but a repetition. Qué sí comes from dice qué sí. I said, I already said yes. So we can see this type of use in many other contexts. Por ejemplo, imagine you didn't get what someone said and then you ask me qué ha dicho? No lo he podido ir. What has he said? I couldn't get it. Then I'll reply qué no podrá venir. He said that he won't be able to come. He said is dijo qué, no? Dijo qué no podrá venir, but we are not saying dijo because it is understood from the context that it is there. And the same thing is happening in the joke and that is why it's funny because that tiny word qué gives away that it is not the first time the doctor answered that question. Perfecto, pues eso es todo de momento. Ahora espero que tengas en tu repertorio algunos chistes qué puedan animar tu siguiente conversación en español. I hope you have enjoyed the jokes and learned a bit more about the Spanish language. Muchísimas gracias como siempre por quedarte hasta el final y nos vemos en el siguiente episodio. Happy coffee breaking. You have been listening to a Coffee Break Languages production for the Radio Linguine Network. Copyright 2026, Radio Linguelimited, recording copyright 2026, Radio Linguelimited, all rights reserved. Ready for a festival season you'll never forget. 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