Festive Fun With Languages

Available for over a year

Join us for a festive Fifth Floor party celebrating languages and all the fun you can have with them. David Amanor has broken free of the studio and set up his microphone on the Fifth Floor of Broadcasting House where our language service journalists make it happen. The BBC's best linguists are stopping by to show off their verbal dexterity with tongue-twisters, puns, proverbs and party-pieces. We revisit some of the best language-themed items from last year's programmes, and find out what's lost - and gained - in translation when Shakespeare's performed in Urdu and Alice explores Wonderland in Arabic. And do people behave, think - even dream - differently in a second language? Party guests: Gulnara Kasmambet of BBC Kyrgyz, Najieh Gholami of BBC Persian, Irena Taranyuk of BBC Ukrainian, Dino Ali of BBC Urdu and Zuhura Yunus of BBC Swahili. Picture: The Fifth Floor festive celebration