 There’s nothing better than a new baby, unless it’s a grandbaby. I’m blessed, I have three. The newest one arrived on July 30. I’ve been waiting to use this on my blog since I played it at a baby shower last year. It was tricky! I got one or two right. YIKES! Try it yourself and see how you do. First find each country on the map. Then find the baby word that matches it. Good luck! Part 1 – European Babies: Here are five countries. Guess their baby word, then check your answers below the map.  Ireland Sweden Finland Italy Spain bebé vauva leanbh bambino bebis  And the answers are:  In Ireland a baby is called a leanbh. In Irish Gaelic you’d say ‘Lan-iv.’  In Sweden you’ll hold a bebis. In Swedish you’d say ‘BEE-bis.’  In Finland your baby is your vauva. In Finnish you’d say ‘Va-va.  In Italy you’ll have a bambina, a girl, or a bambino, a boy. That’s ‘Bam-be-na’ for an Italian girl, and ‘Bam-be-no’ for a boy.  In Spain you’ll hold a bebé, In Spanish you’d say ‘Beb-ay.’ If you’d like to check your pronunciation, just google pronounce and your baby word. Look for a sound symbol and click. Part 2 – Babies from Africa and Eastern Europe: Here are five more countries. Two are from Africa, and three are from Eastern Europe. Guess their baby word, then check your answers below the map. One country has two words for baby. Can you guess which one it is, and which baby word is used twice?  Africa (2) Eastern Europe (3) Chad Egypt Turkey Croatia Russia mladenets bébé dijete طفل bebek And the answers are:  In Chad a baby has two names. In Arabic a baby is called a طفل [tifl]. It sounds like 'tif-lun' to me. In French it’s called a bébé. It sounds like Be-Be.  In Egypt you’ll hold a طفل [tifl], like you did in Chad, and it still sounds like ‘tif-lun.  In Turkey your baby is your bebek. In Turkish you’d say ‘ba-Bek.’  In Croatia you’ll have a dijete. That’s ‘De-A-day’ in Croatian.  In Russia you’ll hold a mladenets, In Russian you’d say ‘mu-la-D- nyetz.’ In Cyrillic it would look like this младенец. If you’d like to check your pronunciation, just google pronounce and your baby word. Look for a sound symbol and click. You can also try the link below. It has languages listed by continent. Some have a sound symbol, and some don’t. If there isn’t one, try googling. Link: Do You Know How to Say Baby in Different Languages Part 3 – Babies from Asia: Here are the last five countries and a map of Asia. Find each country’s baby word, then check your answers below the map. Don’t worry if you can’t read them. There’s only one word I can read, and I bet it’s the one you can too.  India Vietnam China Korea Japan 赤ちゃん बच्चा đứa bé 아기 嬰兒  And the answers are:  In India a baby is called a बच्चा. I have no idea what that says in Hindi, but it sounds like 'veh-Cha.'  In Vietnam, you’ll hold a đứa bé. In Vietnamese you’d say ‘Lu-Bay.’  In China your baby is your 嬰兒. In traditional Chinese you’d say ‘Ping-ye.’  In Korea you’ll have a 아기. In Korea that’s ‘ah-Gee.’  In Japan you’ll hold a 赤ちゃん. In Japanese you’d say ‘ah-kuh-Chan.’ If you’d like to check your pronunciation, try the link below. The languages are listed by continent, and this time I only picked countries with a sound symbol.
Link: Do You Know How to Say Baby in Different Languages?
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