Sesame Street
Benjamin Bratt: Translate
Clip: Season 44 | 2m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Benjamin Bratt explains what the word "translate" means.
Benjamin Bratt explains what the word "translate" means.
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Sesame Street
Benjamin Bratt: Translate
Clip: Season 44 | 2m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Benjamin Bratt explains what the word "translate" means.
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- OH, AND ELMO'S ELMO.
- AND WE ARE HERE TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT THE WORD TRANSLATE.
- YES.
TRANSLATE.
OF COURSE.
TRANSLATE.
WHAT DOES TRANSLATE MEAN, MR. BENJAMIN?
- WELL, TRANSLATE MEANS TO CHANGE ONE LANGUAGE TO ANOTHER LANGUAGE.
- OH, WOW!
WELL, THAT SOUNDS COOL.
HOW DO YOU TRANSLATE FROM ONE LANGUAGE TO ANOTHER LANGUAGE?
- I'LL SHOW YOU.
YOU SAY SOMETHING IN ENGLISH, AND I'LL CHANGE IT INTO SPANISH.
I'LL TRANSLATE.
- OH, OK. WELL, HERE ELMO GOES.
AHEM.
HELLO.
MY NAME IS ELMO.
- HOLA.
MI NOMBRE ES ELMO.
- OH, WOW!
YOU CHANGED WHAT ELMO SAID INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE.
- THAT'S RIGHT.
I TRANSLATED, AND YOU CAN TRANSLATE WITH ANY LANGUAGE.
TAKE THIS CHEESE FOR INSTANCE.
- BONJOUR.
- THIS CHEESE SPEAKS FRENCH.
- OUI.
- AND I SPEAK A LITTLE FRENCH, SO I CAN TRANSLATE WHAT THE CHEESE SAYS.
GO AHEAD, CHEESE.
SAY SOMETHING.
- JE SUIS UN FROMAGE.
- OH.
WHAT DID THE CHEESE SAY?
TRANSLATE, PLEASE.
- THE CHEESE SAID, "I AM A CHEESE."
- OUI.
- OH, WOW.
MR. BENJAMIN IS REALLY GOOD AT CHANGING WORDS FROM LANGUAGE TO ANOTHER LANGUAGE.
WELL, CAN MR. BENJAMIN TRANSLATE ANY OTHER LANGUAGES?
- WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?
I'M GLAD YOU ASKED BECAUSE ACTUALLY I DO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT OF TIGER.
- OH.
- NO.
IT'S TRUE.
WATCH.
TIGER, SAY SOMETHING, AND I WILL TRANSLATE.
- ROAR.
- WHAT'D HE SAY?
- THE TIGER SAID, "HELLO."
- OH.
WELL, THAT'S NICE.
TELL MR. TIGER THAT ELMO SAYS HELLO, TOO.
- OK.
I CAN TRANSLATE THAT.
- OK. - ROAR.
- ROOOAR.
- WHAT'D THE TIGER SAY THIS TIME?
- HE SAYS HE'S HUNGRY.
- OH.
WELL, WHAT'S HE HUNGRY FOR, MR. BENJAMIN?
- LET ME ASK.
- OK. - ROAR ROAR?
- RAWWWRRR!
- HE SAYS HE'S HUNGRY FOR CHEESE.
- OH-JO!
SAY WHAT NOW?
- RAWWWRRR!
- NOW THE TIGER SAYS HE'S GOING TO EAT THE CHEESE.
- JE PARS!
- AND THE CHEESE SAYS HE'S LEAVING.
- OH, NO!
WE HAVE TO STOP THEM.
STOP, MR. TIGER, STOP!
- ELMO, ELMO, HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND ENGLISH, REMEMBER?
- ALL RIGHT.
WELL, THEN JUST CHANGE WHAT ELMO SAID INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE, MR. BENJAMIN, AND MAKE IT FAST!
- NO, NO.
I CAN TRANSLATE.
- YES, PLEASE!
- RAWWWRRR!
- PHEW.
- TRANSLATE.
- OUI.
- ROAR.
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