Multi Language Thread.

wow Yellowfeverlime those greetings were something. where did you get all those. lol
ok now for "nice to meet you". in Albanian we say "Më vjen mirë që u njoftuam"
now you all know about ë because I've explained it so many times, but the one that I think can be difficult is the word "njoftuam". pronounciation: the letter nj,which exists in albanian, s like ñ in Spanish and it is pronounced like in English word new . the pronounciation of new is [nju] so when pronouncing nj in "njoftuam" instead of u in [nju] we say o and we get njoftuam. :D hope I explained it good. :D

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Originally Posted by Nightshade

kanndawish? adil Ive heard that somwhere I think thats how they speak either in the very south of egypt or in Alexandria but I get those two dielects muddled alot

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So it is close to the dialect spoken here in Morocco. It has never occured to my mind that in Egypt there is a dialect close to the one spoken here in my country. Well, I'm learning.

i 4get. I'll find out though!

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

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Originally Posted by samercury

How do you say nice to meet you?

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In French there exist many, many ways to configure and say this common phrase, but the easiest (and most famous) way:

"Enchanté."

(pronounced: "on-shont-ay")

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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".