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Goop Tales — Storytelling Podcast for Kids

Behind the Story - Playalina, Rome, and the Italian Language

Goop Tales — Storytelling Podcast for Kids

Maria Calanchini

Kidsaudiobooks, Educationalpodcasts, Audiobooksforkids, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids, Podcastsforkids, Storyforkids, Kidspodcast, Kids & Family, Storytellingpodcasts, Besteducationalpodcasts

4.4711 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Behind the Story Series was designed to accompany the regular story episodes and provide more information about the places the goops travel to.

While writing for Episode 84 - Playalina and the Vulcan of Roma, I found out so many interesting things about THINGS. Are you curious to find out what I learned? If you haven’t already listened to Episode 84, pause this and go listen to it right now, otherwise, you might be in for some spoilers.

If you have any questions you would like me to answer in a future episode visit gooptales.com and let me know.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Goop Tales behind the story.

0:08.3

I'm Maria Kalinchini and I'm the founder and creator of Goop Tales.

0:13.9

If you're new to Goop Tales and this is your first time listening to an episode,

0:19.2

you're going to want to go back one episode and listen to episode

0:24.1

number 84 about Playalina because that's the actual story. The behind the story series is designed

0:33.2

to go along with the stories, the Goop Tales episodes, and provide more information about

0:40.9

where the goops travel, how I got my inspiration for the story, and any other fun facts,

0:48.3

and maybe some of your questions that I want to answer. Okay, while writing episode 84, which is 84, which is based in Rome,

0:58.9

it's called Pleiolina and the Vulcan of Roma, I did some research and a lot of that research

1:07.0

ended up being around the Italian language because I wanted to use it in the story.

1:14.2

And I'm going to talk about this and this behind the story because there's such great

1:19.6

Italian words that you can use in your everyday life that are just so expressive.

1:26.4

If you haven't already listened to episode 84, just pause this, go listen to it.

1:31.0

Otherwise, you might be in for some spoilers.

1:33.2

And then come back and find out what is behind the story.

1:37.8

For those of you who have listened, let me just refresh your memory about what happens in

1:43.5

episode 84.

1:50.0

It's all about playalina.

1:52.2

Playalina loves to play, of course.

1:55.9

She likes to make difficult things, things she doesn't like, like jobs or homework, or just anything. She wants

2:04.2

to make everything into a game and into play. And she ends up going to Rome where she finds

2:10.4

an old coin with a Roman gladiator on it. His name is Vulcan. He becomes friends with Pleilina because she gets him out of the

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