Multi Language Thread.

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Originally Posted by yellowfeverlime

http://www.freelang.net/expressions/hello.html

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thanks yellowfeverlime. :D

Nice to meet you in Serbian : "Drago mi je".

I don't speak Estonian: Ma ei räägi eesti keelt.
We think that the english transcribation would be about:
Ma mah
ei ay
räägi - ää is pronounced a bit like there in american accent. g like in the word geek not like in word gee.
eesti - ee should be pronounced like ae in english word faery. Ti like tea, but short.
keelt - like the word "celt" but the e should be pronounced long.

Meeldiv tutvuda - pleased to meet you / to make acquaintance with you

Meeld - like meld, but e should be pronounced really long
iv - like in english live
tutvuda tut-vuh-dah

I don't speak italian : Non parlo italiano.
pronounce every letter.

I don't speak Russian: Ya ne govoryu po-russki
(gavaryu, with stress on the end, pa-russki, the rest how it's written)

I don't speak Hungarian: Nem bészelek magyarul
(SZ=S, so beselek.. GY is a strange sound, kinda Y...)
That was the sentence I said the most during 6 months in Hungary...millions of times...:rolleyes: It was frustratiing sometimes...


Nice to meet you:
IT : piacere di conoscerti (literally: i'm happy to know you)
prononuce C as CH in CHocolate, SC as SH

RU: ochen' priyatno

HU: hm I think I don't know...

nice to meet you in arabic????:confused:
Sa'idtoo be marie-fete-akum
maybe

I speak a little flemmish (belgian dutch) so here are some basics:

Hello : Goiedag ('g' are pronounced like spanish 'j's if you know what I mean)
My name is... : Ik heet ... (Ik = EEK' -- like in 'speak' double ee is like a french 'é')

I'm so sorry I can't make the pronunciation clearer!! Help welcome!

Hmmm.... how do you say "Please help me" and "thank you"?

those are pretty important too! :)

in Chinese, thank you is 'xia xia' the 'a' is pronounced as- air.
Please help me is, "cer ye pang wor ma?" Looks weird, I know. ;)

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Originally Posted by Adelheid

Hmmm.... how do you say "Please help me" and "thank you"?

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In Albanian
"thank you": Faleminderit. (it looks difficult probably but every letter is pronounced as it is)
"Please help me": Ju lutem më ndihmoni (ju = you and others as written, in "ndihmoni" the "h" is heard when pronounced)
:D
In Serbian
"thank you": Hvala (hvala = hfala)
"Please help me": Pomozite mi molim vas (in this case "v" is pronounced as it is "v")

Pippi Longstocking: http://efraimstochter.de/sprachendie...melseite.shtml ;)

Thank you:
Italian:Grazie
(that z for an english speaker would be kind of a TS sound I suppose)
Hungarian: Köszönöm, short form Köszi
(hm...kinda ksnm, but you prononunce a bit of O)
Russian: спасибо = spasibo

Please help me...well that's a more tricky one, in Italian it dipends on the context and on whether it is formal or not, singular or plural...
informal: aiutami per favore
formal: mi aiuti per favore
plural: aiutatemi per favore

Russian (only in transliteration cos typing that all in cyrillic alphabet would take me a while, and I dont even know it shows on the forum...)
informal: pomogi mne pozhaluijsto
formal/plural: pomogite mne pozhaluijsto
(hard G as in "get" and zh= french J...last word reas kinda pajalusta, with french j as i said...oh well i'm sure you've heard that one before)

Of corse I have no clue about Hungarian... Uhm I'd know German, French and Spanish but I'd let natives do that... or if they dont show up, I'll tell you later before the house burns down as I am pre-heating the oven... :D

I dont speak any other languages (in fact people have occassionally wondering wether I speak english - overuse of slang). I have always gotten around the I dont speak problem by pointing to myself and saying Scotland.

I'm not to sure about "Please help me" but I seem to remember that thank you in modern Greek is pronounced something like "efcharisto." *fetches Greek phrasebook* Yeah, the emphasis goes on the "o" like "efcharisto".

Well didn't see any heberw so..

Hello is Shalom or hay.

I don't speak heberw is .. - "Ani Lo Medaber Evrit".
ani as in Nit
Ev like evening

If some one wants any more pharses just ask me.. ok'!

:D...

yeah!..Willow's the language master :D

Ghu??? :confused:...

In Urdu:

Please help me: 'Meherbani farma ka meri madad karan,' - Formal. The vernacular would go something like, 'meri madad karan' with the emphasis stripped off please.

thank you: 'shukriah,'

nice to meet you: '(aap say) mil kar khusi hui,' where 'aap say' is often dropped in casual conversation.

Adding to the Swedish dictionary:

Hello: "Tjäna" is pretty informal, even though it originally means "I am your humble servant" (then again, we're an informal people). "Hej" is always a safe bet, though.

I don't speak Swedish: "Jag talar inte svenska" (Yahg TAH-lar IN-te SVEN-ska)

Nice to meet you: Hmmm... I guess just "Trevligt" (TREH-vlit) will do. Or "kul att ses" (cuul at sehs) in more informal situations.

Thank you: "Tack" (most frequently used word in Swedish; also means "please". In any given transaction, this word is used at least four times.)

Please help me: "Kan du hjälpa mig" (Can doo YELP-a may), depends a lot on context though.

"Hello" in Rubber Duckese = "Quack."
"Please" in Rubber Duckese = "Quack."
"Thank you" in Rubber Duckese = "Quack quack." (may or may not be hyphenated, depending on formal or informal usage).

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Originally Posted by Adelheid

Hmmm.... how do you say "Please help me" and "thank you"?

those are pretty important too! :)

in Chinese, thank you is 'xia xia' the 'a' is pronounced as- air.
Please help me is, "cer ye pang wor ma?" Looks weird, I know. ;)

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For "Please help me" in the Moroccan dialect there is an equivalent like [awe'nni 'llah i kha'llik] عاوني الله اخليك.
For "Thank you" there are many among them [shok'ran] شكرا [I 'ttoub] اتوب ['llah i haf'dak] الله احفضك['llah i kha'llik] الله اخليك.
For "Nice to meet you" [mt'sharfin] متشرفين.

Double consonants means jamination.
' means stress.

Actually, I was under the impression that "Please help me" in Chinese (or at least Mandarin) was, phonetically speaking, more like "Qing ni bang mang (wuo)." The "a" is pronounced something more like a combination of the "aw" and short "o" sound.

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Originally Posted by Themis

That's pretty formal and in Austria we use "Grüß Gott" more often. I found a site where it's said it's pronounce like this (gruus got). I'm not sure that true, it sounds weird. I'll try to look the pronounciation up..

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we use the same greeting in Soutern Germany. but in Bavarian it's pronounced like "gree-ahs goad" (like 'goat')

Hindi and Urdu's just about the same...

Please help me: Kripya meri madad kar do..(Hindi)
Thank-You: Shukriya..
Nice to meet you: Aap se mil kar khushi hui...

I speak Portuguese... I mean, Brazilian Portuguese... we say "Olá!" ...or "Oi!"... (sounds like o-e) wich stand for "Hello!"... and "Hi!"... I'm glad to learn about your native languages too.