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Duolingo for Talking to Children

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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A language app gives awkward adults a crash course in chatting with children.

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The funny people

Meet the cast. 7

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You wear your clothes to school?

Very cool, bud.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

At a gathering with coworkers, a woman discovers that her attempts at small talk leave a child bewildered. A new version of Duolingo promises to teach adults the basics of conversation with kids, from safe compliments and familiar foods to guessing ages and surviving long stories. After practicing with the app, she returns to the party with more confidence and spots another guest who could use the same lessons.

ScriptEnglish · 25 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:00

    Aidy Bryant

    Levi, these are Mommy's co-workers. Can you say hi?

  2. 00:04

    Kenan Thompson

    What's up, buddy? You looking fresh?

  3. 00:06

    Kristen Stewart

    Hey. You look nice.

  4. 00:08

    Alex Moffat

    All right. Give me a high-five, buddy. Oh! Too strong.

  5. 00:12

    Kenan Thompson

    I bet you play football, right?

  6. 00:13

    Kristen Stewart

    Yeah, and you go to school. That sucks. Um, do you wear your clothes to school?

  7. 00:20

    Kristen Stewart

    Do school

  8. 00:24

    Speaker 1

    you have no idea how to talk to children? Does it make you feel like a bad person that you can't?

  9. 00:31

    Kristen Stewart

    Mm-hmm.

  10. 00:31

    Speaker 1

    It's never too late to learn. with new Duolingo for talking to children, the first foreign-language app for grown people who need to learn how to talk to kids because their friends are starting to have them. Practice just five minutes a day, and you'll be a brat whisperer in no time.

  11. 00:46

    Kristen Stewart

    Very cool, bud. Very cool, bud. Chicken fingers. Chicken fingers. I like your backpack.

  12. 00:53

    Speaker 1

    The one thing you know about talking to kids is you're not allowed to call girls pretty, but then it's like, what do you say?

  13. 00:59

    Kristen Stewart

    You look not pretty. I mean you're smart. I mean you're an engineer one day.

  14. 01:06

    Heidi Gardner

    Are you okay?

  15. 01:07

    Kristen Stewart

    I got this. Just one second. Sorry. Um Cool backpack.

  16. 01:11

    Speaker 1

    Get a better sense of kids ages Practice traditional greetings.

  17. 01:18

    Speaker 2

    I've got your nose.

  18. 01:19

    Speaker 1

    Build your stamina for long meandering pointless stories.

  19. 01:23

    Faith W. Wong

    I really like the pizza they have too.

  20. 01:25

    Kristen Stewart

    Uh... Cool!

  21. 01:28

    Speaker 1

    In as little as six weeks, you'll be ready for all kinds of kinder conversations, like friend's new baby, the bus, dance recital, child falls on sidewalk in front of you, public restroom, airport gate, hot tub at vacation resort, and child wearing big pink dress. Let's face it, kids are bad conversationalists, but you don't have to be.

  22. 01:51

    Kristen Stewart

    So I bet you like chicken fingers.

  23. 01:55

    Kyle Mooney

    Hey, high five. Too slow.

  24. 02:03

    Speaker 1

    Duolingo for talking to kids, also available in

  25. 02:06

    Your Dad.

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