Steve Webb  0:02  
It's day 21 of the 2022 encore of the 2009 season of the Lifespring Why Christmas show hosted by James Cooper, creator of whychristmas.com. And me the OG Godcaster Steve Webb of Lifespringmedia.com. It's just four days until Christmas when we'll have the drawing to see which lucky listener will win an autographed copy of Bryan Duncan's NehoSoul Christmas CD. If you'd like to see details on how you can enter go to Lifespringmedia.com slash day nine to see how that's Lifespringmedia.com slash d A why numeral nine no spaces. Somebody's gonna win it. Why not? You and James and I would be most grateful if you've been enjoying the show this Christmas season if you would ask Santa to give us a gift at Lifespringmedia.com slash support. We've been good...I promise!

Steve Webb  1:12  
Hello, and welcome to Day 21 of the Lifespring White Christmas show for 2009. Today, James is join me and we're going to try some tongue twisting fun as we did last year, finding out how to say Merry Christmas in some different languages. 

James Cooper  1:26  
 Well, I've got my mouth all limbered up and ready to go. So I'm going to start with some perhaps more familiar one to get me in, get here we go. Happy Christmas in French is Joyeux Noël. In German, it's Frohe Weihnachten. In Italian Buon Natale, in Spanish Feliz Navidad. Right, Steve, are you going to try some? 

Steve Webb  1:50  
Well, I don't know why not. You know, it's so fun to listen to a Brit do these other languages. Because I've never heard Spanish with a British accent before. So it's fun. I'll try Japanese.

James Cooper  2:01  
Feliz Navidad

Steve Webb  2:05  
Let me try Japanese. Japanese is Meri Kurisumasu, Norwegian and spr-- . Thank you like that. Yeah, thank you. Here's nor... Norwegian and Swedish. It's God Jul. Okay, now, New Zealand. You know, we should have a good friend Craig Patchett from the Godcast Network do this next one because he's a New Zealander. Although I don't know if he speaks Maori, but in Maori, which is the native New Zealander language. Merry Christmas is Meri Kirihimete, or something like that. I'm not a Maori and I've never met one. So what do you think of that? 

James Cooper  2:39  
Yeah, I think they were very good. And I'm going to tie up with some really tricky ones. Okay. This is Russian. And here we go. 

Steve Webb  2:50  
This is a hard one I remember from last year. 

James Cooper  2:52  
s rah-zh-dee-st-VOHM. I'll try that again.

Steve Webb  3:00  
Why try it again? 

James Cooper  3:03  
s rah-zh-dee-st-VOHM.

Steve Webb  3:06  
You know, one of the problems with some of these languages is that we try to read them as they're written. 

James Cooper  3:11  
Yeah. 

Steve Webb  3:12  
And the sometimes it just doesn't work that way. But the way we speak these letters is not the way that they do it over there, but it's still a lot of fun to listen to. What's your next one here, James? 

James Cooper  3:20  
It's Finnish. And it's I think this has been easier. It's Hyvää joulua. 

Steve Webb  3:26  
Oh, that sounds good. Okay, what's next? 

James Cooper  3:28  
And in Ghana in the Dagbani language. It's Ni ti Burunya Chou. 

Steve Webb  3:35  
Okay. Geshundheit. 

James Cooper  3:37  
Yeah, quite. And in Chinese in Mandarin, it's Sheng Dan Kuai Le. And in Cantonese, it's Seng Dan Fai Lok. 

Steve Webb  3:48  
I'll take your word for it. Very good. If you want to try these languages, plus lots more, then go on over to whychristmas.com and the language section where there's over 70 different languages. 

James Cooper  3:59  
Well, I think we did rather well there, Steve. Make sure you come back tomorrow to listen to another Lifespring Why Christmas show. And to keep it simple to end with. I'll just wish you all a Happy Christmas.

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