S9E5 - Bikol and Tagalog Me Back

Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

National Geographic

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.7 • 16.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Oh Muses! Help us in our travels to the Philippines to tell some Filipino legends from the Tagalog and Bicol regions. We encounter arguing pixie sisters, many dialects, strategic lullabies and why it’s never a good idea to sleep on the job. --- You can listen to Greeking Out early and ad free on Wondery+! But wait, parents! The creators of THIS amazing podcast have written a New York Times bestselling tie-in book Greeking Out, featuring many tales you haven’t heard. It’s every bit as hilarious, harrowing, heartwarming, and Hellenistic as its namesake. Buy it here: https://bit.ly/greekoutbook

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0:00.0	The stories featured in Greek out are usually original adaptations of classic Greek myths.
0:05.1	This week's story features arguing Pixi sisters, many dialects, strategic lullabies,
0:10.5	and why it's never a good idea to sleep on the job.
0:14.0	Grecing out the greatest stories in history
0:18.0	we're told in Greek mythology.
0:21.0	Grecing out gods and heroes amazing feats,
0:24.4	Listen and you'll see it's
0:26.2	Grecing out!
0:29.4	Yep, it's field trip time again here at Grecing Out, and this time we are going to the other side of the planet.
0:37.0	We are traveling all the way to Southeast Asia and the Philippines.
0:40.0	The nation of the Philippines is made up of 7,641 different islands.
0:50.0	It is the sixth largest island nation in the world and there are over 170 languages spoken in the Philippines.
1:00.0	That's amazing and it's very important to keep that in mind as you listen to our stories today
1:05.2	since the Philippines is a country made up of different islands.
1:08.8	They all had slightly different cultures and some of these cultures didn't interact with each other
1:14.0	until more modern times so this means that some of the regions of the Philippines have
1:19.2	different languages different religions and different folk tales.
1:24.0	Today, we're going to tell you stories from two different regions of the Philippines.
1:28.0	Tagalog and Bekol are two different languages spoken in the Philippines.
1:35.9	A standardized version of Tagalog called Filipino is generally considered to be the national language while Bichol is only spoken in a specific region of islands in the Philippines.
1:51.0	So we're going to start with an old school Tagalog folk tale about the Philippines. So we're going to start with an old-school Tagalog folk tale about the moon and the sun and the
1:56.3	stars.
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