Over the past 24 days we’ve learned festive greetings in 24 languages. In this final episode Mark is joined by all 24 of his cohosts and we take a look back over the project, adding one further language to our total.
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We very much hope you’ve enjoyed taking part in Festive Phrases and would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
In our penultimate episode of Festive Phrases join Fons and Mark to learn “Happy Holidays” in Dutch, the language of the Netherlands, Suriname, Aruba, Sint Maarten and Curação.
In lesson 23 of Festive Phrases we’re travelling to North Africa and the Middle East to learn “Happy New Year” in Arabic. Join Mark and Mourad in today’s lesson.
Today on Festive Phrases we’re dealing with a major world language – one of the most widely spoken languages. Portuguese is spoken in Portugal, but also in Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Angola, São Tomé e Principe, Macau and East Timor! Join Mark and Susana and learn how to say “happy Christmas” in Portuguese.
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If you would like to learn more Portuguese you can join Mark and Susana in the ten lessons of One Minute Portuguese. Find out more by clicking on the icon below.
In today’s episode of Festive Phrases we’re travelling to the southern tip of Africa and learning one of the eleven official languages of South Africa, Zulu. You’ll join Mark and Cee Cee and learn how to say “happy Christmas” in Zulu.
In today’s episode of Festive Phrases we’re travelling to Ukraine which is betweenPoland and Russia and is bordered to the north by Belarus. You’ll join Mark and Oksana and learn how to say “happy Christmas” in Ukrainian.
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If you would like to learn more Ukrainian you can join Mark and Oksana in the ten lessons of One Minute Ukrainian. Find out more by clicking on the icon below.
In lesson 18 of Festive Phrases we’re heading to the country where Europe meets Asia: Turkey. Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages and in today’s lesson you’ll be joining Mark and Sebnem to learn a festive greeting in Turkish.
We’re travelling to the northeast of Spain today, passing through Andorra and learning how to say “happy Christmas in Catalan”. Today’s episode also contains some information about the famous Catalan Tió de Nadal, or the Cagatió, a tradition practised by Catalan families for many years. Teachers who would like some further information on the Tió de Nadal tradition should click here.
Join Mark and Gian Luca today in our Italian edition of Festive Phrases. Italian is spoken in Italy and is also an official language in Switzerland. Find out more about Italian and learn to say “happy Christmas” in today’s episode.
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If you would like to learn more Italian, join Gian Luca and Lorraine in One Minute Italian, or learn Italian step by step, day by day, phrase by phrase in My Daily Phrase Italian. Find out more by clicking on the icons below.
Today’s Festive Phrase comes from Sweden. The 13th December is a special day in Sweden and other parts of northern Europe because it is the feast of St Lucia, when a girl is chosen in each town and village to represent St Lucia and take part in a special procession. Find out more about St Lucia celebrations on Mark’s personal blog today, and join Mark and Gabriella to learn how to say “happy Christmas” in Swedish.
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If you would like to learn more Swedish, join Mark and Gabriella in the ten lessons of One Minute Swedish. Find out more by clicking on the icon below.
It’s the turn of the world’s most commonly spoken language today: Mandarin Chinese with over 845 million speakers. In fact there are more speakers of Mandarin that the speakers of all the languages we’ve covered so far put together! Today you’ll learn about pinyin, Chinese tones and, most importantly, how to wish someone “Happy New Year” in Mandarin.
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