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Festive Fun With Languages

A festive Fifth Floor party celebrating languages and all the fun you can have with them.

Join us for a festive Fifth Floor party celebrating languages and all the fun you can have with them. David Amanor has broken free of the studio and set up his microphone on the Fifth Floor of Broadcasting House where our language service journalists make it happen. The 91热爆's best linguists are stopping by to show off their verbal dexterity with tongue-twisters, puns, proverbs and party-pieces.

We revisit some of the best language-themed items from last year's programmes, and find out what's lost - and gained - in translation when Shakespeare's performed in Urdu and Alice explores Wonderland in Arabic. And do people behave, think - even dream - differently in a second language?

Party guests: Gulnara Kasmambet of 91热爆 Kyrgyz, Najieh Gholami of 91热爆 Persian, Irena Taranyuk of 91热爆 Ukrainian, Dino Ali of 91热爆 Urdu and Zuhura Yunus of 91热爆 Swahili.

Picture: The Fifth Floor festive celebration

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50 minutes

Last on

Boxing Day 2015 02:06GMT

Broadcasts

  • Christmas Day 2015 12:06GMT
  • Christmas Day 2015 17:06GMT
  • Christmas Day 2015 21:06GMT
  • Boxing Day 2015 02:06GMT