Can you get these 3 Spanish jokes? (Anabel explains why they're funny)
Coffee Break Spanish
Radio Lingua Network
4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Anabel is back, and this time she's bringing us three jokes in Spanish. Can you get them? Each one teaches you something interesting about how Spanish really works, from double meanings to wordplay and idioms. The last one might surprise you!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm Annabelle, and I've got to tryer three chisces that will try to prove your Spanish. |
| 0:09.9 | I have chosen three jokes that will test your Spanish, but that will also teach you something interesting about the language. |
| 0:18.7 | If you're interested, not you go out much, that we'll get us. |
| 0:25.3 | The first chistee is a conversation and |
| 0:28.6 | he says, hello, have books for the |
| 0:32.1 | Kansancio? Yes, but |
| 0:34.7 | are they got this one? |
| 0:39.3 | Let's look at it in more detail. |
| 0:41.6 | It starts with, |
| 0:42.8 | Hello, do you have books about tiredness? |
| 0:48.8 | And the clerk answers, |
| 0:50.8 | Yes, we do, but they are agotados. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, we do, but they are agotados. Yes, we do, but they are agotados. |
| 0:58.1 | And here is where the joke comes from. |
| 1:01.3 | Agotado has two meanings in Spanish. |
| 1:04.4 | Exhausted and out of stock. |
| 1:08.1 | So the customer is looking for books about tiredness, but the books are exhausted |
| 1:14.0 | or out of stock, or maybe both. Now, just for extra knowledge, let's see Agotado in a different |
| 1:21.3 | context. Can you guess if we are using agotado meaning exhausted or out of stock, the example is, |
| 1:29.9 | no pute to buy the camisa that was because was agotada. |
| 1:35.5 | Hmm. |
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