Patricia Forde
speaker
316 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Patricia Forde’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But they there are people are talking less.
So children are hearing fewer words.
So when our kids were small and you went to the shop
I would talk to the woman in the supermarket when I was putting my things through, we'd talk about the weather, whatever.
Now I'd probably go to the self service checkout, so they don't hear anybody.
If they go to McDonald's they order on a screen.
It's you know, we we are talking less and
We need conversation.
We need that.
And the other thing is, even at the best of times, when you're just talking every day at home and at school, you're using about a thousand words.
When you read a book, you're exposed to maybe thirty thousand words.
And words you wouldn't use normally.
You're not going to be talking generally at home about philosophy.
You're going to be talking about have you got your bag?
You know, it's time to do your homework.
But in a book you can talk to them about anything.
They use words on YouTube.
to you, they talk to you.
I wonder though what the quality of the words are.
It's like you know the way on the radio at the moment there's an awful lot of chat about what to put in the lunchbox and you know, a balanced diet and what to give them.
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