what's a hippo

Whats a hippo
A hippo's a hippo
I'm a hippo
You're a hippo
We're all hippo's
We are something special


Has anyone ever heard of the "Hippo Family Club"? Apparently it is a world wide thing.

I think it has got to be one of the strangest ways to learn a foreign language that i have ever seen

Instead of leaning one language at a time, they learn about 19!
And all they do is repeat after a tape. I have not really figured out if these people can speak any of these languages, or they just learn to copy the tape. At least they get good pronunciation. but they never really learn what the words mean.

The idea is to learn the languages like a baby would, naturally through listening and mimicing.

My host family is involved in this club and they took me along to 2 of their meetings and they play the hippo take over and over at home.

Good for them, but i dont get the point. why not try and master one language at a time, not get 19 of them all muddled up together.

And that little song at the start is getting to me...