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Steve Webb: It's day 21 of the
2022 encore of the 2009 season

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of the Lifespring Why Christmas
show hosted by James Cooper,

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creator of whychristmas.com. And
me the OG Godcaster Steve Webb

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of Lifespringmedia.com. It's
just four days until Christmas

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when we'll have the drawing to
see which lucky listener will

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win an autographed copy of Bryan
Duncan's NehoSoul Christmas CD.

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If you'd like to see details on
how you can enter go to

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Lifespringmedia.com slash day
nine to see how that's

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Lifespringmedia.com slash d A
why numeral nine no spaces.

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Somebody's gonna win it. Why
not? You and James and I would

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be most grateful if you've been
enjoying the show this Christmas

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season if you would ask Santa to
give us a gift at

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Lifespringmedia.com slash
support. We've been good...I

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promise!

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Hello, and welcome to Day 21 of
the Lifespring White Christmas

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show for 2009. Today, James is
join me and we're going to try

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some tongue twisting fun as we
did last year, finding out how

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to say Merry Christmas in some
different languages.

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James Cooper: Well, I've got my
mouth all limbered up and ready

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to go. So I'm going to start
with some perhaps more familiar

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one to get me in, get here we
go. Happy Christmas in French is

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Joyeux Noël. In German, it's
Frohe Weihnachten. In Italian

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Buon Natale, in Spanish Feliz
Navidad. Right, Steve, are you

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going to try some?

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Steve Webb: Well, I don't know
why not. You know, it's so fun

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to listen to a Brit do these
other languages. Because I've

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never heard Spanish with a
British accent before. So it's

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fun. I'll try Japanese.

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James Cooper: Feliz Navidad

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Steve Webb: Let me try Japanese.
Japanese is Meri Kurisumasu,

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Norwegian and spr-- . Thank you
like that. Yeah, thank you.

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Here's nor... Norwegian and
Swedish. It's God Jul. Okay,

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now, New Zealand. You know, we
should have a good friend Craig

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Patchett from the Godcast
Network do this next one because

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he's a New Zealander. Although I
don't know if he speaks Maori,

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but in Maori, which is the
native New Zealander language.

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Merry Christmas is Meri
Kirihimete, or something like

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that. I'm not a Maori and I've
never met one. So what do you

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think of that?

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James Cooper: Yeah, I think they
were very good. And I'm going to

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tie up with some really tricky
ones. Okay. This is Russian. And

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here we go.

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Steve Webb: This is a hard one I
remember from last year.

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James Cooper: s
rah-zh-dee-st-VOHM. I'll try

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Steve Webb: Why try it again?

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that again.

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James Cooper: s
rah-zh-dee-st-VOHM.

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Steve Webb: You know, one of the
problems with some of these

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languages is that we try to read
them as they're written.

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James Cooper: Yeah.

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Steve Webb: And the sometimes it
just doesn't work that way. But

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the way we speak these letters
is not the way that they do it

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over there, but it's still a lot
of fun to listen to. What's your

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next one here, James?

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James Cooper: It's Finnish. And
it's I think this has been

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easier. It's Hyvää joulua.

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Steve Webb: Oh, that sounds
good. Okay, what's next?

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James Cooper: And in Ghana in
the Dagbani language. It's Ni ti

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Burunya Chou.

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Steve Webb: Okay. Geshundheit.

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James Cooper: Yeah, quite. And
in Chinese in Mandarin, it's

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Sheng Dan Kuai Le. And in
Cantonese, it's Seng Dan Fai

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Lok.

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I'll

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Steve Webb: I'll take your word
for it. Very good. If you want

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to try these languages, plus
lots more, then go on over to

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whychristmas.com and the
language section where there's

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over 70 different languages.

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James Cooper: Well, I think we
did rather well there, Steve.

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Make sure you come back tomorrow
to listen to another Lifespring

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Why Christmas show. And to keep
it simple to end with. I'll just

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wish you all a Happy Christmas.