[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-speak-ukrainian-with-vern-lettuce":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"One of the themes of my picture book \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/the-new-neighbours/\">The New Neighbours\u003C/a>\u003C/i> is trying to make newcomers feel welcome. Our town recently had a meeting, trying to figure out how we as a community could best help people who were fleeing the war in Ukraine. Since Stuart and I \u003Ca href=\"https://youtu.be/2E7eLp27_Dk\">speak Russian\u003C/a>, we thought we could learn some Ukrainian - which has a lot of similarities - to try to help out. And I thought it might be fun to make a little language starter video, for children who might be trying to learn a few phrases to speak with new classmates at school.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1161338_original-2902f0e4cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's how you say 'Hi', 'Nice to meet you', and 'thank you' with Vern the sheep and Lettuce the rabbit! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"4947\"/>\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"https://youtu.be/1ERKhVOOYmA\">(Here's the link if it's not showing up) \u003C/a>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nFeel free to use this video in schools or wherever it's helpful! I've downloaded a couple apps - \u003Ca href=\"https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/duolingo-language-lessons/id570060128\">DuoLingo\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/speakeasy-ukrainian/id297253360\">SpeakEasy Ukrainian\u003C/a> - which both have free versions you can try out to see if they might work for you, if you'd like to learn more. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1161920_original-7e3e691bc7.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/the-new-neighbours/\">Find out more about \u003Ci>The New Neighbours\u003C/i> here. \\r\n\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1161623_original-02c8a3326b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2022-04-04T19:55:00.000Z","speak-ukrainian-with-vern-lettuce",[],"Speak Ukrainian with Vern & Lettuce!",1776628731417]