This song is available on Hap Palmer's Can A Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet?
Skills and Concepts:
- Appreciating other cultures
- Dividing words into syllables
- Hearing and repeating phonemes of different languages
Vocabulary:
Ejo, oshe, be'vakasha, toda, kudasai, arigato, alstublieft, dankuwell, quing, xie xie, min fadilak, shokrahn
Activity:
This song presents 6 more languages in a call and response format about the ways people say "please" and
"thank you" in different languages. As in part I, children listen to each word or phrase then sing it back like
an echo.
Chorus:
If you want to show appreciation
Ease the way in any situation
There's a way to say in every nation
Please and thank you
Ejo, ejo, (eh-joh)
Oshe, oshe (oh-shay)
That's the way we say it in Yoruba
Be'vakasha, Be'vakasha (be -vah -kuh-shah)
Toda, Toda says (to da)
That's the way we say it in Hebrew
Kudasai, kudasai, (ku-dah-sah-ee)
Says please in Japanese
Arigato, Arigato (ah-ree -ga-to)
Says thank you, whoa-oh
Tafadhali, Tafadhali (taf-a-DAH-lee)
Says please in Swahili
Asante, Asante (a-SAN-tay)
Says "thank you," whoa-oh
Kudasai, kudasai, (ku-dah-sah-ee)
Says please in Japanese
Arigato, Arigato (ah-ree -ga-to)
Says thank you, whoa-oh
Repeat Chorus
Alstublieft, Alstublieft (als tu BLEEFT)
Dankuwell, Dankuwell, (DANK-ooh-el)
That's the way we say it in Dutch
Qing, qing, (ching)
Xie xie, xie xie, (shee-eh shee-eh)
That's the way we say it in Mandarin
Min Fadilak, Min Fadilak (min-fad -lick)
Says please in says please in Arabic
Shokran, Shokran (shu-krahn)
Says thank you, whoa-oh
Repeat Chorus
Click Here to See Please and Thank You, Part 1
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