On the What If TV show, the poet Mike Rosen showed us some clever tricks with words that can help you to speak a secret language. If you missed it or need a reminder, here's Mike again:

"Hello everybody! Well that's a boring thing to say - 'Hello Everybody'. You could make it a bit more interesting by chopping up the words into little bits one letter at a time. Instead of saying 'everybody, you'd say 'everybody, verybody, erybody, rybody, ybody, body, ody, dy, y!'
If you say it really quickly, it sounds great!

See and hear how this works with 'everybody' and 'shampoo' by clicking on the two examples below. Then type your own word into the text box and click the green button to see the bits of your word. Practise saying the bits of words quickly and it will sound really funny."

"Mike here again. Here are some ideas for speaking secret languages. The first one is called Key Jug! With a bit of practice it's easy. Choose a word, take one letter at a time, and put 'key' after each letter. After the last letter, say 'key-jug'. Click on the green button below to see and hear an example."

"Another secret language is backslang. To speak backslang, take the first letter of a word, put it on the end and then add 'a'. To see and hear an example, click the green button below"

"I hope you have fun speaking your secret languages. Keep practising!"