Slang Around the World

Duration: 30

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Presents members of the New York Herald Tribune World Forum and forum director Helen Hiet Waller. Teenagers from the Sudan, Israel, Ceylon, and Yugoslavia discuss American slang as an obstacle to the understanding of English and as a puzzlement and source of amusement to foreign visitors. The young people examine slang words and phrases in their own language.