Hit the nail on the head: A chat with Rune Pedersen, host of The Idiom podcast

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Feeling a bit ‘under the weather’ because it’s been ‘raining cats and dogs’? Maybe you’ve found yourself ‘in a pickle’! But if a Danish person said to you that ‘there’s no cow on the ice’ (det er ingen ko på isen), would you know what they mean?

Idiomatic expressions are a really interesting part of language and in this episode, we’re chatting with Rune Pedersen, host of The Idiom, a podcast co-produced Think HQ CultureVerse and SBS Audio which explores culture through weird and wonderful idioms from Australia and around the world.

Danish native Rune speaks with us about his background and interest in language, his own experiences living, studying and working with different languages across multiple countries, how The Idiom came to be and what inspired the creation of this podcast, and what captures his curiosity at the moment.

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Episode Links

• The Idiom podcast, co-produced Think HQ CultureVerse and SBS Audio

• Monolingual vs multilingual: The key to communications that will resonate with Australians today - Mumbrella

• Find Rune on LinkedIn | Think HQ