Hello, good-bye, and thank you.

[Monique]

I am trying to learn ways of saying "hello", "good-bye" and "thank you". in as many languages as possible.

Dutch:
Hello - hoi / dag / hallo
Goodbye - hoi / dag / doei / doeg
Thank you - dank je

 

[Pattielli]

I never thought that there is such a language...
I also have to admit that tongue2 is the most beautiful icon and a mostly used one!

 

[Math Is Hard]

I never thought that there is such a language...
I also have to admit that tongue2 is the most beautiful icon and a mostly used one!

I agree. Tongue2 recently won our "Most Beautiful PF Smiley" contest.

 

[Pattielli]

I agree. Tongue2 recently won our "Most Beautiful PF Smiley" contest.

I was not joking at all, you can look at the image icons right next to your "reply to thread" 's edit box, you will see all are with strange ugly eyes, the yellow one smily and dark red cool can be 3th and 2nd rank respectively, the shy one will get the fourth position prize...Here they are, ready for receiving prizes from Nina-exectutive manager, marketting manager and also as a famous !lawyer!
:shy:

Oh forgot to say, here, the last position, also has a prize but will be delivered Robert Lovelace...Here it is.

 

[meteor]

Catalan:
Hola
Adeu
Gràcies

Catalan is spoken by 11 million of persons. It's the eight language in number of speakers inside the 25 countries of the European Union

It's a mixture of Spanish and French

 

[Pattielli]

Honestly, this is the first time I hear of Catalan.
True, it is also just like a a couple of years ago, I met a girl who is now one of my best friends, you know she told she is from Tonga. and that made me stuned for a while since I hadnot heard of it before...I have to admit that i am really bad at geography and my common sense about different places of the world is really not good...

But do all the Spaniards know/can they speak Catalan ?

 

[meteor]

No, in fact I would say that catalan is hated in the zones where is not spoken; it comes from a long history... Catalonia was an independent (and powerful) nation until was annexed by Spain. So we are a bit like the "strangers" for the rest of Spain. But there are other minor languages talked in Spain: Euskera in the Basque country, and galego in Galicia. Galego is very similar to portuguese, and euskera is very peculiar because, contrarily to most west-european tongues is not of romanic origin. It probably shares the same origin as the Berber talked in the north of Africa

Catalan is spoken in the zones indicated in this map
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/catnet/Ppccnou1.jpg

the box in right inferior corner shows the city of Alghero in the italian island of Sardinia. Catalan is still spoken in that city, a reminder of the times when the whole island of Sardinia was a catalan possession

 

[Pattielli]

Thanks for your explanation...(:smile)

In Japan, people usually use "Kon nichi wa" as Hello and it is also used as "Good afternoon"(though its truest meaning must be "around noon" (smile))
On the phone people will say:
申し申し-Moshi Moshi = Hello
こんにちは(今日は)-Kon ni chi wa = Hello (people use OhayoGozaimasu(Goodmorning), Konchiwa(Good afternoon), Konbanwa(Good evening) more often than only Konnichiwa because they are correct about time and sound more *friendlier*)
さよなら -Sa yo nara= Bye Bye (young Japanese use *Bye* more than this Sayonara...(smile))
有難うございました- Ari gato go zai ma shi ta = Thanks (Sometimes some will say only Arigato gozaimasu which is not as formal as the previous one and sound a little *not good but not bad*, it is just not formal and oftenly used among friends or people who are in the same class or rank or the same age, though)

People in some other parts of the country have different pronunciations and different uses of words especially those in Osaka...

 

[kuengb]

Kon nichi wa -check!
Moshi moshi -check!
Ari gato -check!

If someone can now tell me what "domo" means, my Kill Bill vocabulary will be complete.

 

[Pattielli]

Domo has a lot of different meanings and it is up to each situation where the speaker uses it, listener will then figure out itstrue meaning, you speak out something that uses Domo, I will try to let you know its meaning...And please remember that when you already know how to put it in your own statements, you actually already know it boforehand.
Sounds like aloof but unfortunately it is adoof!

 

[Muzza]

Swedish:

Hello: hej/hallå/tjänare
Good bye: hej då/vi ses
Thanks: tack

 

[baffledMatt]

Southern Californian:
Hello: Hey dude
goodbye: Later dude
Thanks: Thanks dude

Norwegian (in my experience ):
Hello: snakker du engelsk?
goodbye: nei? Oh well, nevermind.
thanks: Ta anyway.

 

[Pattielli]

My language:

hello shashe
goodbye sheaya
thankyou tushuya

 

[jimmy p]

Southern Californian:
Hello: Hey dude
goodbye: Later dude
Thanks: Thanks dude

Dude, seriously?

 

[baffledMatt]

Well, that's how my flatmate speaks, although he has a slight western LA dialect so tends to say "waddup" instead of "hey dude".

 

[jimmy p]

totally

(actually this hardly even WARRANTS a post...)

 

[meteor]

are you japanese Pattielli? Why then this italian-like nick?

 

[Math Is Hard]

yeah - what language was that, Patielli?

 

[Gokul43201]

My language:

hello shashe
goodbye sheaya
thankyou tushuya

This must be some kind of Japanese. Toshiya is a common Japanese name ...and toshuya is close to that.

Shashe (or something close to that) is the name of a God in some religion - I'm fairly certain it's Oriental or thereabouts.

 

[Imparcticle]

not japanese...

"Shashe" is a name of a river around Botswana, South Africa or Zimbabwe.

Well, thanks for all your replies.
And in my language, I will repeat this sentence:
Ena benay cwonqua indegna elalow ehaynen calat.

Let's see who can guess what language that's in?

 

[Monique]

It must be some local dialect of Salamander?

 

[Pattielli]

My language:[/color]

hello shashe
goodbye sheaya
thankyou tushuya

That is not Japanese, that is my language...(smile)
I amnot a Westerner, not an Easterner either! but i know East roots in me deeper than West does...honestly, I am proud of it and find myself really lucky too, I was born to be like that, I would be able to say billions of Thanks to my parents without even a stop because they gave birth to a child like me...I would surely do something to make them much happier, that is my big big ambition. I will make it!
I don't see any problem to be an Easterner though,

 

[Pattielli]

Three years ago, I met some students who were coming from America, yes, they were/are studying there, it was weird to me at first that both are Chinese but never spoke to each other in Chinese, they used only English, I guessed they would like to say it was "international", I came close and asked how long they had been living in the US, one said two years and the other said three years, whereas I had thought to myself that they should have been living there for 10 years or so...

 

[jono]

Welsh:

Hello: Bore da
Goodbye: Hwyl fawr
Thank you: Diolch

 

[Imparcticle]

lol

It must be some local dialect of Salamander?

No, amharic.

 

[BoulderHead]

My language:

hello shashe
goodbye sheaya
thankyou tushuya

In keeping with this spirit;

Hello: dio'os (pronounced; dios, but slow)
Goodbye: pa'te in ba'al (pronounced; pate in bail)
To say thanks: bo'tic (pronounced; bow tick)

 

[Moonbear]

Here you go, a site with please, thank you, hello and goodbye, and a few other phrases in 270 different languages!

http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/please.htm

I've been learning far more useless phrases (I don't know how to spell a single one of them, but I like trying new foods, so it works for me to learn to say them), like bon apetit, buen provecho, ech schmaklik (sorry Monique, I probably mutilated it because I've never seen it spelled, so am sort of going by phonetics there), guten apetit (I think...that's supposed to be German). I also know the dutch word for folding chair...can't forget it, but also can't spell it...I remember it because it sounds like clap stool. So, I pretty much can offer someone a chair and wish for them to enjoy their food.

 

[Monique]

ech schmaklik (sorry Monique, I probably mutilated it because I've never seen it spelled, so am sort of going by phonetics there)

eet smakelijk, very good

I also know the dutch word for folding chair...can't forget it, but also can't spell it...I remember it because it sounds like clap stool. So, I pretty much can offer someone a chair and wish for them to enjoy their food.

It's klap stoel :) I wonder where this word came up in a discussion, lol.

 

[Moonbear]

eet smakelijk, very good

It's probably better that I hadn't seen it spelled before learning to pronounce it, I'd have probably gotten it very very wrong.

It's klap stoel :) I wonder where this word came up in a discussion, lol.

One of my friends is Dutch, and we also have had several visiting Dutch students, so I pick up strange words here and there. I'm amazed I even remembered that word since it came up very late during a party and seemed like the most hilarious thing to discuss at the time. Strangely, it seems I retain foreign languages better when I'm drinking, maybe because by then I'm not overly inhibited about sounding stupid as I try to repeat the word many many many times until I get the pronunciation right. Or maybe slurred speech makes speaking Dutch easier

 

[The Bob]

Love languages.

German:
Hello = Hallo, Große Gott (in southern germany), Gutentag, Guten Abend(evening)
Please = bitte
Goodbye = Aufweidersehen (in person) or Aufweiderhören (if you are on the telephone).

If you answer the phone in germany you say your name first and then the other person says 'hello this is...' So it would be (for me):
(I pick up the phone): The Bob
Other person: Hallo. Dude hier.
And the conversation starts.

Strange for me but normal in other countries (I assume).

The Bob (2004 ©)