Spanish

Anyone who watches Sesame Street regularly is going to pick up at least a little bit of Spanish.  You'll learn numbers, some important nouns and verbs, and how to say the names of your body parts.  Luis was introduced in the show's very early years, and Maria would move onto the Street a short time later.  They both enjoyed assisting all of their amigos in becoming bilingual.

Other than English and Spanish, the only language anyone really tried to teach was sign language.

(Linda.  She didn't always dress like that.)

Bob was very enthusiastic about the sign language, and about Linda.  He was a music teacher that liked to sing, but I don't remember him ever singing in Spanish.  He was too busy interpreting the deaf signs.

Click to view... Hola song.

Didn't ANYONE on the Street have an interest in speaking something besides English and Spanish?  Imagine Oscar the Grouch teaching kids the French word for garbage.  The Count should have wanted to learn to count in EVERY language if he liked counting SO MUCH.  "Eyn...twey...drie...vier...vijf...zes...zeven..."  (That's Dutch.)

Even when it comes to English, there could have been a British neighbor guy that taught some of the subtle differences.  Imagine Big Bird being confused to hear a British guy refer to Maria as a "bird."

Speaking of birds, they did invent a character once to help teach a language, but guess which one?  Yep, Spanish.  The Street used to sometimes get visits from Poco Loco the parrot.

He disappeared after awhile.  Not sure why, parrots usually live a long time.  I guess he could have been secretly old ("viejo.")

Adios, Poco.

Click to view... Somos Hermanos.