0:00

But. First, here's a message for the

0:02

adults listening. If. You love

0:04

food, learning about the world, and

0:07

very silly jokes. You'll love the

0:09

Plate show a new comedy podcast

0:11

for kids and families about cultures

0:13

around the world and the foods

0:15

that are important to them. Join

0:18

Spooning everyone's favorite talking spoon and

0:20

her Bff tongues as they talk

0:22

to real kids and celebrity chefs

0:25

about their favorite foods and special

0:27

traditions. Listen and subscribe to the

0:29

Plate Show wherever you get your

0:32

podcasts. This

0:53

is but why? A podcast for curious

0:56

kids from Vermont Public? I'm Jane Lindholm

0:58

On this show, we take questions from

1:00

curious kids just like you and it's

1:02

our job to find the answers. The

1:04

next time you ride a bus and

1:07

train an airplane, take a moment and

1:09

listen to the voices around you. Are

1:12

they all speaking the same language?

1:15

Probably. Not almost half the people in

1:17

the world speak more than one language, and

1:19

we know that includes a lot of you

1:21

who listen to why. So we thought it

1:23

might be fun to do an episode about

1:26

all the different languages we speak and what

1:28

it's like to speak more than one language

1:30

and we're going to hear from a lot

1:32

of you. We asked those

1:34

of you who speak multiple languages to

1:36

send us a voice memos, talking a

1:39

little bit about what that's like, and

1:41

more than seventy of you responded. Like.

1:43

Sophia who speaks both English and Filipino

1:45

and lives in the Philippines. The.

1:48

Reason why I enjoy being

1:50

a bilingual is because. I'm.

1:53

Able to connect with other Filipinos

1:55

in a grungy and learn more

1:57

about me that your roots. My

2:00

name is Leah and I'm 10 years old.

2:02

My name is Fiji and I'm 12 years

2:04

old. We live in

2:06

Kachay Province, Cambodia. And

2:08

we're sisters. We know

2:11

three languages, English, Khmer

2:13

and Kural. One

2:16

of the good things about being

2:18

trilingual is you can understand more

2:20

people and it's also fun learning

2:22

other languages. One

2:25

word in Khmer is Sous-deh,

2:27

which means hello. And

2:30

Kral, Bang and Jung means

2:32

what do you have to eat and it's

2:34

a greeting. Hi, I'm Audrey. What I love

2:36

about being bilingual is that I have a

2:39

secret language against my mom. My

2:41

favorite word is in French,

2:43

bibliotec. That means library. Ooh,

2:45

a secret language that your mom doesn't

2:47

know. That's pretty good. My

2:50

name is Guba. I speak

2:52

three languages, Polish, Portuguese and

2:54

English. What I like

2:56

about speaking three languages is it

2:58

makes me special. I get to

3:00

learn about three cultures and I get

3:03

to eat burgers for breakfast, to

3:06

ask for lunch and

3:08

pedagi for dinner. Hello,

3:11

my name is Nalia. I

3:13

am eight years old. I

3:15

know three languages, Arabic,

3:18

French and English. Knowing

3:21

different languages is important to

3:23

me because I can communicate

3:25

with people who don't

3:27

speak English or other languages. Nalia,

3:30

that's a great one, being able to

3:32

speak to people who might not speak

3:34

English or might not speak French. You

3:36

can have so many choices when you

3:38

speak multiple languages. Hi,

3:41

my name is Sophie. I'm seven

3:43

years old. I live

3:46

in Canada, BC. And

3:48

what I like about speaking two

3:50

languages is that you

3:53

get to talk more

3:55

than normal and you

3:58

Can go more places and talk to people. The

4:00

zebra and workforce. Is

4:02

insane asylums fine? Thank

4:04

you. We. Also got

4:07

notes from a lot of you teaching

4:09

the rest of us how to say

4:11

something in one of the other languages

4:13

you speak. May also says got six

4:15

years old I'm from when a sadist.

4:17

I. Didn't demons but I like

4:19

about seeking more than one. Language

4:21

is too. And I sent

4:24

into gaming media and further

4:26

tests like nice one also

4:29

English music. As

4:31

thrive in Spanish could. Be be

4:34

guess which means the

4:36

toys hiring in his

4:38

last on said scissors

4:40

and. I love it as is

4:42

unless and he had this as

4:44

a phrase. a new this year.

4:46

For movies the means I'm here.

4:49

Hello! My name is Hannah.

4:51

I'm ten years old. I'm

4:54

from South Korea, I speak

4:56

English and Korean a traditional

4:58

way to say hello. And

5:00

Korean is a mother stuff,

5:02

but it literally means. Did you

5:04

eat? Salads

5:16

powerful also. Other. Know

5:20

my name is my. First

5:23

isn't free. I

5:25

speak French and

5:27

mean I'd like

5:29

to tell secrets.

5:32

Friend. To

5:34

same mean we choose

5:36

me are usually. French

5:40

even when he

5:42

speaks English some.

5:46

It's not easy

5:48

to continue speaking

5:50

English. Speakers on my day

5:52

was in France and what word

5:54

do you want to keep to

5:56

the but Why? Listeners. But

5:59

one. Which me?

6:03

Repeat after me more. Than.

6:07

Enough. I'm

6:09

going to be working on all of those to

6:11

the next three weeks and we're going to have

6:13

more at the end of the episode, so stay

6:15

tuned if you wanna learn some more phrases in

6:18

other languages. In addition to

6:20

all of you who are experts at

6:22

speaking your languages, we called up someone

6:24

who's an expert in languages in general

6:27

an herb able as a professor of

6:29

Hispanic Linguistics at the Ohio State University.

6:32

A linguistics professor or a linguist is

6:34

somebody who studies languages. I have the

6:36

coolest southern the world because I get

6:39

to go around and talk to people

6:41

all the time. And

6:43

then I think about how people talk.

6:46

And try to understand how. People talk

6:48

differently and what we know about people. By

6:50

listening to the way that they talk,

6:52

my facility is looking at of who

6:54

we are and how our identities are.

6:57

personal identity affect the way that we

6:59

talk. So I'm interested in not because

7:01

a lot of us speak more than

7:03

one language and so sometimes we can

7:05

speak two languages at one time we

7:07

can switch back and forth. Sometimes we

7:09

save one language for certain spaces and

7:11

another language for others. Me says that

7:14

there's a lot of different ways to

7:16

be bi. To speak

7:18

more than one language. but all of them are interesting.

7:21

When. It comes to speaking more than

7:23

one language. Anna says There's no hard

7:25

and fast definition of how well you

7:27

have to speak before you can call

7:29

yourself bilingual, Someone who speaks two languages

7:31

or multi lingual, someone who speaks many

7:33

languages. I know a lot of kids

7:36

can say me, how are lot of

7:38

kids can say all our because of

7:40

Dora That means that you rt speak

7:42

a part of the language and there's

7:44

not like a certain. Point:

7:46

You know there's not like a line where you

7:48

cross the line and all of a sudden you

7:50

speak. Spanish? or you speak Mandarin?

7:52

What? Usually. What happens is that people

7:54

learn more and more pieces of They start

7:57

learning how to put those pieces together of

7:59

and southern. The different stuff that you

8:01

go through one is knowing and recognizing

8:03

some words. Arm another step

8:05

is. Being able to have a short

8:08

conversation: how old are you? What grade

8:10

are you in? May. Be what's the.

8:12

Weather doing where you live and from

8:14

there are people just get more and

8:16

more complex and they start to get

8:18

more and more different topics that they

8:21

can talk about. My name is Luka

8:23

and ten years old. I live in

8:25

Sao Paulo, Brazil and my question is

8:27

how many languages can a person speak

8:29

fluently. The as far as we know, there's

8:31

no. Limit. So it's very common for

8:33

people to speak three or four languages

8:36

if you speak more than five or

8:38

six languages than Polyglot is this word

8:40

that comes from Greek and it means

8:42

many tongs. There have been people who

8:45

speak seventy or eighty languages. Can you

8:47

imagine keeping seventy or eighty different languages

8:49

and all those vocabulary straight in your

8:51

own head? You know it's amazing what

8:53

people can do with language worked and

8:56

if little language learning machines one thing

8:58

as being able to speak a lot

9:00

of languages but also sometimes. People understand

9:02

languages that they don't speak. So I'm

9:04

thinking, if you speak seventy or eighty

9:07

languages, how many could you understand like

9:09

you could probably understandable that number. There

9:11

are more than seven thousand language currently

9:14

being spoken around the world, and Anna

9:16

says you can probably keep learning languages

9:18

your whole life. There's no limit the

9:20

number you can speak. Sometimes

9:23

you learn multiple languages because the people

9:25

you live with like your parents or

9:27

caregivers speak different languages. So maybe you

9:29

speak one language at home and a

9:31

different language in the shops or when

9:33

you're out in about with your friends.

9:36

Hi. I'm on it.

9:38

And four years old. I

9:41

am site all the and and

9:43

nine years old hello is been

9:46

making and and six years old

9:48

We live in the thank you

9:51

Pennsylvania and he speaks three languages

9:53

as fine young English on diets

9:55

to remain. In

9:58

a multi cultural home. We've

10:00

learned all languages from

10:02

the country's Our parents

10:04

are fun we speak

10:06

all languages because ah.

10:09

Were parents. Always.

10:12

Talk to us. In the

10:14

languages. Idea was

10:16

that by of the the

10:19

same. My. Name is

10:21

Julie is around five years

10:23

old. What languages you speak?

10:25

English and Spanish? What do

10:28

you like about. Been. Able to

10:30

speak more. Than one language

10:32

and. People.

10:35

Work more people can the cooker. T

10:39

shirt, grandparents your my

10:41

family in Mexico and

10:43

throw him a. Who

10:46

teaches you Spanish? I, Peaches

10:48

and my grandparents. And

10:50

name is learned from I am eleven years

10:53

old. And. I speak English and Spanish

10:55

because my dad is from the yourself

10:57

in a mom is from Mexico. One

10:59

day I like about being by legal

11:01

is I can understand people both and

11:03

Mexico and and the Usa of raise

11:05

our like to teach you a Spanish

11:08

is jody get much which means I

11:10

love you more in Spanish. I really

11:12

like the saying that my mom always

11:14

does she love me know I say

11:16

I love her more. Some.

11:19

Kids learn to speak a new language. That

11:21

may be no one in their home speaks.

11:23

There are language immersion schools where you learn

11:25

a new language and go to school at

11:27

the same time. and we heard from several

11:29

of you who go to that kind of

11:31

school. I bet why. My name is

11:34

Lydia and ten years old and

11:36

then in Devon and I'm bilingual.

11:40

I stood school a plane

11:42

to the nowadays defenseless. often

11:45

been to play. Some

11:47

some. He might not know French is a

11:50

bushel as a means to day is is

11:52

of hello. He Caitlyn, he's in

11:54

the night. Yeah, They both laughed. At

11:56

by of were. Hi

11:59

My name is. Sophia and I am 14

12:01

years old. And my name is Maddie and I

12:03

am 10 years old. We live in Salt Lake

12:05

City, Utah. We both are fluent in Chinese, or

12:07

Zhongan. We have done the dual immersion program at

12:09

our school from the age of 6, which

12:12

means that we have spent half of each

12:14

day at our school learning Chinese. We've even

12:16

learned subjects like science, Koushia, and math, Xuxia,

12:18

and Chinese. My Chinese name is Lupeya, and

12:21

I have been learning Chinese for 9 years.

12:23

Learning Chinese has helped me appreciate other cultures

12:25

because I am more aware of how different

12:27

people do different things around the world. It

12:30

has also given me cool new experiences like talking

12:32

to tourists that come to visit. Today I am

12:34

going to teach you how to say skiing in

12:36

Chinese because it is very popular in Utah. It's

12:39

Huaxia. My Chinese name is

12:42

Lu Manling, and I have been learning Chinese

12:44

for 5 years. Speaking Chinese is helping me

12:46

understand cultures and is super fun to learn

12:48

about. I love celebrating their holidays and being

12:51

able to speak with my sister because

12:54

me and her have our own secret language. I

12:56

love cats, so I am going to teach you

12:59

cat in Chinese. It is

13:01

my name. My name is Alyssa. I am

13:03

7 years old. I

13:05

live in Bluebell, Pennsylvania. I

13:08

can speak 3 languages, English,

13:11

Cantonese, and Vietnamese.

13:13

What I like about speaking

13:16

different languages is if you go

13:18

to a country that speaks that

13:20

language, you can understand more. To

13:23

say, how are you in

13:25

Cantonese, is Léhô Ma. If

13:29

I am going to Vietnam and I am

13:32

saying hi to my grandma, I can say,

13:35

Ciao Ciao Bá. Hello,

13:37

my name is Tom. I

13:40

am 9.5 years old, and I

13:42

live in Grenoble, France. I

13:45

am Sri Lanka. I speak

13:47

Hebrew, Salaam. I speak

13:50

French, Burhu, and

13:52

I speak English. And my question

13:54

is, why is it easier for

13:57

kids than adults to learn a

13:59

new language? and

16:00

tell my mom how to

16:02

say it and blah blah.

16:05

Coming up, we learn new words and

16:07

phrases in the languages you are teaching

16:09

us. Hi, my name

16:11

is Alexandria. I

16:13

live in Luminos and Picatarina,

16:16

Brazil, and I'm

16:18

bilingual. This is how you

16:20

say good morning, how are

16:22

you in Portuguese? Bongia como

16:24

vai. Plus, should you learn

16:27

more than one language? I'm

16:32

Jane Lindholm, an Estes But

16:34

Why, un podcast para niños

16:36

curiosos. Hini but why, poricasti

16:38

coa watoto waradisi. That was

16:40

Spanish and Swahili for This

16:42

is But Why, a podcast

16:44

for curious kids. Today,

16:47

we're hearing from so many But Why

16:49

listeners about what it's like to speak

16:51

more than one language. Hi,

16:53

my name is Emmy. I'm nine years old

16:55

and I live in Yerevan, Armenia. I

16:58

speak two languages, Armenian

17:01

and English. I think

17:03

it's really cool that I speak in

17:05

two languages because I get to

17:07

speak to everybody I know, Americans,

17:11

Armenians, everyone.

17:14

And I think differently

17:16

in Armenian because I

17:18

think about my home, my

17:21

Armenian traditions, my Armenian

17:24

family, and English

17:27

is the same thing but only in

17:29

America. Something

17:31

that American kids say a lot is

17:35

I love to play with my friends. And

17:37

in Armenian, we say

17:39

that as, yasapam si dum kar

17:41

al yima gednari het. Hi,

17:44

my name is Carla. I'm 10 years old.

17:47

I live in Portugal and I can

17:49

speak three languages. My day is

17:51

mostly in English. So

17:53

English feels like I'm walking. It's

17:56

very easy. At home, I

17:58

speak Polish with my dad. It feels

18:01

like jumping. I can do it, but it takes

18:03

more effort. And finally,

18:05

I can speak French, because

18:07

I was born in Monaco. French

18:09

feels like people are welcoming

18:12

me somewhere new. It

18:14

makes me feel connected when I use

18:16

it. French sounds like I'm

18:18

stretching a sore muscle. It feels

18:21

good, but it takes a lot

18:23

of energy from me and finally. We

18:25

moved to Portugal a year ago,

18:28

so I'm currently learning Portuguese. Wish

18:30

me luck. Who knew

18:32

that using multiple languages is like stretching the

18:34

muscle? Some of you have

18:36

also sent us questions about language. My

18:39

name is Daniel. I'm from California,

18:41

my age is 4, and

18:43

my question is, why are

18:46

languages so important? Helping

18:50

us answer your questions and understand how we

18:52

learn languages and why they're important is Anna

18:54

Babel. She studies

18:56

languages as a professor of linguistics.

18:59

So every single human being

19:01

in the world who communicates with

19:04

other people has a language. And

19:06

that's kind of amazing, because there's

19:08

not a lot of things that we can say that we

19:10

all have in common, but we all

19:12

have language in common, even if they're

19:14

different languages. Your language

19:16

says a lot about who you are and

19:18

where you come from and who you

19:20

talk to. And languages have so many

19:22

different sounds, so many different kinds of

19:24

words, so much differences in

19:27

grammar, that it really says

19:29

something about how much there is that's

19:31

different about people all over the world,

19:34

but also how much there is that's the same. Here's

19:36

a question from Ava about a specific

19:38

language. I

19:41

live in Yonkers, New York, and

19:44

I'm 9 years old, and my question

19:46

is, why does almost no

19:48

one speak Quechua? Actually,

19:50

a lot of people speak Quechua. It's

19:53

spoken by 8 to 10 million people, so

19:56

Quechua is about the same

19:58

size as languages like Samoan. Mali,

20:01

Swedish, Bulgarian. You

20:04

might not have heard as much about Quechua because

20:06

it's still a lot smaller than languages

20:08

like English or Mandarin or Hindi. And

20:11

it's not very often taught in schools in

20:13

the US because it's not a native language

20:15

of this country. But

20:18

it is very important in countries

20:20

like Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia where

20:22

it's an official language. It was

20:25

probably used by the Inca Empire.

20:27

In fact, we have documents from

20:29

the Spanish showing that Quechua was

20:31

used in the area that's

20:33

now Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia even

20:36

before they arrived in the 1500s. So

20:39

it's a language with a lot of history. And

20:41

it's also a language that people enjoy

20:43

speaking because they say it's funny, it's

20:45

very good for making jokes, it's very

20:47

expressive. And it's also a

20:50

language that people use to identify

20:52

themselves as people who are Quechua.

20:54

So it's a cultural category

20:56

as well as a language category. I'm

20:59

glad you mentioned jokes because that

21:01

is one really important piece

21:04

of language is humor and being

21:06

able to play with words and

21:08

play with language and use words

21:10

in different ways to convey different

21:13

meanings, whether you're speaking sarcastically or

21:15

making a joke. When

21:18

I lived in South

21:21

America and was communicating constantly in

21:23

Spanish, which was not my first

21:25

language, the hardest part for me

21:28

was to fully convey my own

21:30

personality and be able to make

21:32

jokes. You have to have a certain level

21:34

of fluency to be able to make jokes in

21:37

a second or third language. And until

21:39

you can do that, sometimes it feels like, well, people

21:41

don't really know who you are. It

21:43

can be really hard when you don't fluently

21:45

speak another language and you're trying to communicate

21:47

your personality as well as just say, you

21:49

know, can I have that bag of oranges

21:52

or where does this bus go to? Yeah,

21:54

I think you're right. That's one of the

21:56

most advanced skills is being able to

21:58

be funny or being able to be

22:00

authentic in a language that you're still in

22:02

the process of learning. So

22:05

my daughter speaks Spanish at home

22:07

but when she goes to school in her

22:09

Spanish class it's sometimes hard for her because

22:11

they use different words and it's

22:14

a lot of things that we don't do at home. But

22:17

she's really really good at

22:19

being funny, being authentic,

22:21

being respectful in Spanish.

22:23

So when you're talking about you know different

22:26

ways that you can express yourself in different

22:28

languages, how can we all

22:30

think about maybe just ways to give people

22:33

space or think about them as

22:35

whole people even if they're not

22:38

as fluent in the language that we're

22:40

communicating together in as maybe we are.

22:43

Like maybe your grandparents don't speak English

22:45

as well as you do or Chinese

22:47

as well as you do and

22:50

you know we just mentioned it can be hard

22:52

to bring your whole self to a conversation if

22:54

you're struggling to find the words. So how can

22:56

we kind of be friendly

22:58

to people who we're trying to communicate with

23:00

in all these different ways in different languages?

23:02

That's a really good point. Using

23:05

the language is so much a part of who

23:07

we are and of ourselves that

23:09

it can be easy to ignore

23:11

people who don't speak a language

23:13

that you're using with a lot

23:15

of ease. So I remember

23:17

when I was learning Spanish I was out

23:20

with some friends and I think we went

23:22

to the bus station and I went to

23:24

buy a ticket and one of them turned to me and she

23:26

said oh you understand money

23:28

already. I think it's easy

23:31

to mistake somebody having trouble

23:33

with the language for not

23:35

being competent in other ways or not

23:37

being able to do simple things. Treating

23:40

people as people no matter how they

23:42

speak is a very important thing to

23:44

do. Hi my name

23:46

is Mila. I'm five

23:49

years old. I

23:51

live in San Diego, California

23:54

and my question is how

23:57

do people communicate? Next

24:00

day I can speak different languages.

24:04

There's a lot of ways that

24:06

we can communicate people without using

24:08

just language. We can

24:10

always use gestures. We

24:12

can always work on a task

24:14

together. So if

24:17

we're thinking about grandparents, you can always

24:19

maybe work on cooking with your grandparents

24:21

or play a game with your grandparents.

24:24

We can think creatively about how to

24:26

communicate with each other even without a

24:29

common language. You

24:31

know, people use a lot of eye contact and

24:33

a lot of facial expressions when they

24:35

talk anyway. And then I think

24:37

part of the fun of

24:40

working with somebody who's speaking a different language is

24:42

playing guessing games. You can guess

24:44

at the words that people are trying to tell

24:46

you and you can teach each other. So what

24:48

are some good ways to learn new languages?

24:51

Annabelle has a suggestion for us. I'm

24:54

10 years old. I'm from Palm Coast, Florida.

24:56

I'm trying to learn Spanish. So

24:58

here's a tip. If there's

25:01

like a movie that you really like and you

25:03

like know every word, put the

25:05

captions on and watch it in that

25:07

language because that's how I'm trying to

25:09

learn Spanish. You know, there's no

25:11

bad way to learn a language, but

25:13

definitely the best way to learn it is

25:15

from other people. If you're a

25:18

kid in a family where multiple languages

25:20

are spoken or maybe you go to

25:22

school in one language, but the language

25:24

that your parents or grandparents or other

25:26

family members speak is a different language.

25:29

And you're like, oh, I have to speak in this

25:31

other language and it's not as easy for me or

25:33

I don't speak this with my friends. Or it's maybe

25:36

kind of embarrassing sometimes that my

25:39

friends all speak one language with their families and

25:41

I speak a different one. Do you

25:43

have a way for us to think about

25:45

that in a positive way? Yeah, I think

25:48

the main thing to keep in mind

25:50

is that it is perfectly normal to

25:53

speak more than one language or to

25:55

speak differently at home than in other

25:57

settings. That is perfectly Normal.

26:05

The hard way, when they see

26:07

something different, I think maybe our

26:09

job is to open their minds.

26:11

A little bit to help them understand

26:13

the world's a little bit more completely.

26:15

and to say hey, in my family

26:17

or my house this is how we

26:19

do things and I think it's probably

26:21

difference in your house. But that doesn't

26:23

mean that one way is better than

26:25

another. It just means that we all

26:27

have differences. We have differences in the

26:29

way we dress. We have differences in

26:31

the way we cook. We have differences

26:33

in the way that. We. Speak to

26:35

members of our community. And

26:38

that's all that's okay. That's part of the

26:40

richness athena a human being. What? If

26:42

what you actually need is to

26:44

convince your parents or aunts and

26:47

uncles, grandparents, or caregivers or foster

26:49

families that you want to learn.

26:51

Their other languages and they're not

26:54

teaching you. How can we convince

26:56

are adults that we want to

26:58

know the other languages that they

27:00

Now you know. It's funny because

27:03

kids are super sneaky kids here

27:05

a lot more than adults realize

27:07

as quick links researchers have found

27:09

is that even when adults try

27:12

not to their to assert linguist.

27:16

Learned so children do not need

27:18

permission to learn a language. So.

27:21

It's. Ok to kind of sneakily listen to what

27:23

your adults or is it is okay to be

27:25

a super. Sneaky spy. Ah,

27:28

and to keep your ears.

27:30

Open and then to use those tools

27:32

when they're useful to you. You heard

27:34

it here, folks. it's okay to be

27:36

a super sneaky spy and listen to

27:38

what your adults are saying. If you're

27:41

trying to learn their language, now, let's

27:43

hear from kids on what their experiences

27:45

learning a second language have been like.

27:48

My name is endless. I'm fine,

27:51

I'm I'm in English and Dutch.

27:53

Sweet! Why my story took it

27:55

English with my mum I wanted

27:58

to like that was nice. I

28:02

thought wow when.

28:04

I look at my writing. English

28:08

but the was minutes which means

28:10

which means close in Dutch I

28:12

didn't even realize I had done

28:14

in. Hi. I'm

28:17

Gabriel or it says eight years

28:19

old and I live in London,

28:21

Uk. I am selling book at

28:23

school. I speak English the time

28:26

I speak. Italian and French

28:28

when I was told I

28:30

was cluttering ago that. Cause

28:33

I lived in Hong Kong but

28:35

I support the Hong Kong point

28:37

but I need to practice. To

28:40

be able to read and write

28:42

well a can be very confusing

28:44

with the different right thing is

28:47

how you older an english can

28:49

I has a fish and chips

28:51

in Italian posts as it is

28:54

a spaghetti by so on and

28:56

on was owed all. In

28:59

french you to well as

29:02

opposed to put as he's

29:04

ruthless think he grabs you

29:06

may see or watch out

29:08

by. Or I want

29:10

to broaden your language skills a little bit

29:13

more. Let's get ready to immerse ourselves in

29:15

the world of languages. So many have you

29:17

shared with us about the languages you speak

29:19

and gave us some tips for how to

29:21

say some easy words and phrases. We've heard

29:23

some of those throughout the episode, but I

29:25

still wanna know more so let's hear him.

29:38

Go Or. I

29:40

love you Mom up our

29:42

about accord Roka our our

29:44

humble poor mom or. Five.

29:48

My name is how he said

29:50

and I live in tells him

29:52

seven ten ah I'm obsessed. All

29:55

involve. Ah, p

29:57

d they drop the

29:59

angel French

30:01

and Dutch and

30:03

I would like to teach you

30:05

a Dutch sentence of some

30:08

basic things you can say. Hello,

30:11

huy amor ha,

30:13

huy imidach,

30:16

da, dankjil. I

30:19

said hello, good

30:21

morning, good evening. I'm

30:24

Elena, I'm six

30:26

years old, I speak

30:29

Vietnamese and English. This is

30:31

how you say hello or bye

30:34

in Vietnamese. Ciao!

30:38

My name is Ella, I'm five

30:40

years old and I'm from Florida. I

30:42

speak Portuguese and Polish. And I'm a butwipe.

30:44

Do I still want to be a butwipe?

30:47

Bye, I still want to be a butwipe.

30:50

Hi, I am Sophie.

30:53

I live in

30:56

London, England and I

30:59

speak French

31:02

with my mum, Italian

31:06

with my dad and

31:09

English with my

31:12

brother. Do you

31:14

want to play with

31:17

me? In Italian

31:19

you say, ciao,

31:22

voy ducarico n'mer.

31:25

In French

31:28

you say, salut, jeuver,

31:31

dreuver, muy avec moi.

31:34

And that

31:37

way we

31:39

can all play

31:42

together in

31:45

different countries.

31:48

Merci, thank

31:51

you, g'daht sie! My

31:54

name is Elena and I'm from Poland.

31:57

And what two languages do you speak?

31:59

English. and Polish. What

32:02

word or phrase would you like to teach

32:04

the but why? Hello you

32:07

say and

32:09

goodbye you say Hello

32:12

my name is

32:14

Timofe. I'm a triangle. I'm

32:17

five years old. I live

32:19

in Paris. The

32:22

three languages that I

32:24

can speak are

32:27

Chinese, French and

32:29

English. The things that

32:32

I like to be a triangle

32:36

is I can read lots of different

32:38

books and talk to

32:40

different people from other

32:43

countries. I

32:45

can teach you but why

32:48

in French and Chinese. My

32:55

name is Lucas and

32:58

I am six years

33:00

old and I am

33:02

a triangle. I live

33:04

in Vienna, Austria. I

33:08

speak German,

33:11

English and French. Hello

33:15

is hello

33:17

in German and

33:20

bonjour is hello

33:22

in French. Hello I'm Tazie.

33:25

I live in Wales and

33:27

I'm six. Shimmery. Being Tazie,

33:29

being very kind, I like

33:32

speaking two languages because

33:34

it's random. My

33:37

name is Anna and I'm a little brother. We

33:40

can have midnight features without mommy knowing

33:42

what we say. Hi

33:44

my name is Anna and I

33:46

am seven years old and I live in

33:48

Newcastle, Washington and I'm a triangle. I

33:51

can speak English, Chinese, French and

33:53

Spanish and this is how you

33:56

say hello in all of them.

34:00

And this is my tiniest name, Jaku.

34:08

Wow, that is so amazing. I loved learning

34:10

all these new phrases and it is so

34:12

cool to hear you all speaking the languages

34:15

that you speak at home, at school, and

34:17

out in your communities. Did

34:19

any of you get inspired to

34:22

learn a new language from this

34:24

episode to add to your linguistic

34:26

repertoire? Let us know. Thanks

34:28

to Anna Babel for sharing her expertise about

34:30

languages with us as well in this episode.

34:33

Anna is a professor of Hispanic linguistics

34:35

at the Ohio State University. Maybe

34:38

if languages really interest you, you'll

34:40

become a linguist someday. That's

34:43

it for today. Now if you have a

34:45

question about anything, send it to us. We

34:47

love to help get answers to all kinds of

34:49

questions. Ask an adult to

34:51

help you record yourself asking and then

34:54

send the audio file to questions

34:56

at boatwhykids.org. We

34:58

love hearing your first names, how old you are, and

35:00

where you're from too. The Boat

35:02

Why team includes Melody Baudette, Kiana Haskin,

35:04

and me, Jane Lindholm. Our show is

35:07

produced at Vermont Public and we're distributed

35:09

by PRX. Our theme music is

35:11

by Luke Lemmel. We'll be

35:13

back in two weeks with an all-new episode. Until

35:16

then, stay curious. For

35:33

PRX.