What would it be like to talk to a whale?

Short & Curly

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Philosophy

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Would you like to learn to speak whale language at school instead of Italian or Mandarin? Molly and Carl go on a deep-sea mission to test a new translation device that will let them talk to whales. But even if they manage to make the technology work, will they be able to truly understand each other? Come dive with us and find out.

Brains Trust – Linden Park Primary School, Adelaide – Ivy, Finn, Oliver, Ken, Aaron, Nicholas (also did WONDER EP!)

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0:00.0	ABC Listen.
0:03.0	Ah, the Deep Blue Sea, Nature's Greatest Mystery and its greatest habitat for some of Earth's most extraordinary creatures.
0:15.0	Today, I Carl Smith will be diving head first into the waves
0:21.0	so I may come face to face with the majestic whale.
0:25.0	But the adventure won't stop there because I will be taking with me a state of the
0:31.6	art translation device which will will be
0:32.8	taking with me a state-of-the-art translation device which will hopefully allow me to become the first person
0:37.6	to communicate with Quales. Joining me as always will be my effervescent co-host, Molly Daniels.
0:47.0	Molly. Where is Molly?
0:52.0	Yoo! Hey!
0:55.0	Here she comes, balancing on her surfboard in a Hawaiian shirt.
1:00.0	Whoa!
1:01.0	Yes, really nailed that gnarly right hander.
1:05.0	Hey Carl, what I miss?
1:07.0	Pumped a go talk with some Wales?
1:09.0	Absolutely. I really feel like me and the Wales are going to become best friends.
1:15.0	Best friends?
1:17.0	Sorry, second best friends.
1:19.0	Thank goodness.
1:21.0	Here we go.
1:22.0	Action. Today, Molly and I will scuba dive as far down as we can get. Once
1:30.4	submerged, we will strike up a conversation with the Whales.
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