Hello and welcome to The Week Junior Show. I'm Bex and I'm joined by writers Joe and Eve from

the Week Junior, The Magazine Making Sense of the World for 8 to 14-year-olds. Now, in a week where

flights at European airports were delayed due to cyber attacks and the World Athletics

Championships took place in Japan, we're going to be discussing some of the other stories that feature in the latest issue of the magazine. Make sure you're listening closely because at the end of the episode, we'll be asking a question about what you've heard, and if you answer it correctly, you could win a prize. But before we begin, there's something I want to talk to you both about, because there's a story in this week's magazine about a festival at the Barbican that celebrates languages. So it got me thinking, what's the language you'd love to speak? Eve, do you have one? Yeah, so I have two answers because I feel like one is a bit of a simple answer. I would love to, I did French at school, but then I sort of stopped doing it after GCSE. But I do wish I could speak

French because I think that would be a very, a very fun one to do. But also, if I could kind

of delve into the world of Lord of the Rings, I would love to be able to speak Elvish. That would

be fun. I was halfway through your answer. I was like, she's going to go for a made-up language.

All languages are made up, obviously. Elvish, that's an interesting choice. Who would you want to speak it to?

Legolas. Great. Great. Fair enough.

You know what? And then you could maybe learn French together with him. You could go from Elvish to French together.

Oh, yeah. See, I just

think languages are great. It would be great to speak so many languages. So, yeah, maybe I'll start

learning. Lovely. All right. Joe, how about you? So if we're ignoring all the time and effort it

would take to actually learn the language, then it might be cool to learn something that has a different

alphabet to English. So I reckon, I had to think about this and I reckon Mandarin just because it's so commonly

spoken across the world.

But a bit like Eve with French, if I actually kind of had to find the time to learn it,

I'd probably pick German as I learned a bit of school and I did it in my first year of

university and I've kind of watched German TV series

on and off since then. So I've got a bit of a grounding in the language. I think I think it

would be quite cool and maybe wouldn't take as much effort or clearly wouldn't take as much effort as

Mandarin to learn from the basis I've got. Yeah, Mandarin might be a little bit trickier, I'd imagine.

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