Listen to Kerala teenagers or young cousins and you will hear words no textbook teaches: adipoli, kidu, scene, machaan. Slang means informal words used mostly among friends and peers. If you only know formal words, you will miss half the jokes at a family gathering. In this episode: • Praise: adipoli, kidu, polichu • Calling your friends • Scene, chumma and thallu • Waiting and surprise • Register: who can you say it to? • An invented scene: cousins after a match • Language bridge • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key phrases from this episode: അടിപൊളി (adipoli) = awesome, superb. Used all over Kerala, by young and not-so-young. ഫുഡ് അടിപൊളി ആയിരുന്നു (food adipoli aayirunnu) = The food was awesome. കിടു (kidu) = cool, great. നിന്റെ പുതിയ ഷർട്ട് കിടു ആണ് (ninte puthiya shirt kidu aanu) = Your new shirt is cool. പൊളിച്ചു (polichu) = nailed it, smashed it, had a blast. ഇന്നലത്തെ പാർട്ടി പൊളിച്ചു (innalathe party polichu) = Yesterday's party was a blast. നീ പൊളിച്ചു! (nee polichu!) = You nailed it! മാസ് (mass) = stylish, crowd-pleasing, full of swagger. അവന്റെ എൻട്രി മാസ് ആയിരുന്നു (avante entry mass aayirunnu) = His entry was so stylish. മച്ചാൻ (machaan) = dude, buddy. When calling someone, it becomes മച്ചാ (machaa). മച്ചാ, എവിടെയാ? (machaa, evideyaa?) = Dude, where are you? ചങ്ക് (chunk) = close friend, best mate. Literally "heart" or "chest". അവൻ എന്റെ ചങ്കാണ് (avan ente chunkaanu) = He's my best mate. സഹോ (saho) = bro. A short form of സഹോദരൻ (sahodaran) = brother. സീൻ (scene) = a problem, a fuss, a big deal. Learn Spoken Malayalam at Home: a complete course in everyday spoken Malayalam for English speakers. Native Malayalam pronunciation, every phrase in Malayalam script, Manglish and English, plus a language bridge comparing Malayalam with other world languages. Listen, repeat out loud, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.