‘He is already married but now he has a girlfriend too’: Translators reveal what your New York taxi driver is REALLY talking about

An eavesdropping, multilingual passenger has shed some light on the fascinating conversations taking place behind the wheel of New York cabs.

 

Urdu and Punjabi are the two most common languages spoken by immigrant New York taxi drivers along with English.

Around a third of drivers in the city come from Pakistan, India or Bangladesh, according to a survey in 2004.

After two weeks of riding in the back of cabs, the passenger collected [...]