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Episode 8: Languages
A language is a system of sounds used for communicating with others. What language do you speak every day? Do you know how to speak any other languages?
Featured Books
Read Book: Runny Babbit, Shel Silverstein, 2005
Runny Babbit and his friends are normal animal kids, except they speak in their own silly language!

New Book: Du Iz Tak, Carson Ellis, 2016
Enter a world of bugs and plants where each creature speaks its own language, yet somehow they all understand each other.
Extension Activities

1. Watch a show or movie spoken in a different language. Did you still understand what was happening?
   
2. Interview people you know to see how many of them can speak another real or made-up language.
   
3. Invent your own language and teach it to a friend.
   

Book Recommendations
Board Books:

1. Baby Signs by Joy Allen
   
2. Counting With -Contando Con Frida by Patty Rodriguez
   
3. Babies Around the World by Puck
   

Picture Books:

1. Nabeel’s New Pants by Fawzia Gilani-Williams
   
2. Little Kunoichi The Ninja Girl by Sanae Ishida
   
3. SkippyJon Jones by Judy Schachner
   

Chapter Books:

1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
   
2. Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
   
3. Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
   

YA Books:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
   
2. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
   
3. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
   

Guest Host Spotlight


Diane Everett is an adjunct instructor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Fredonia State University. She enjoys dance, pilates, word games with family, and Harry Potter.