Multi Language Thread.

[Adelheid]

When I was reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte, I came across quite a few French phrases. I was a little annoyed, as I don't understand French, and I had to flip to the back, where all the translations were. I was wishing I could at least understand some of it, when this idea came to me.

Since there are people of all denominations on this forum, I think it will be very interesting to learn some different languages. I don't know if there are any French here, but I know that at least we could learn some phrases of other languages from people here! How cool!

Right I think it's better to start with the basics, right?

How you you say "Hello" in any language? Please put the Pronunciation there too.. like for english you would pronouce Hello as (HEA-low)

[Kaltrina]

I think this is a very cool thread. very nice idea Adelheid.
ok my mother tongue is Albanian and in Albanian Hello is "Tung" and it is pronounced the way it is written, every letter is pronounced.

[Jay]

What about 'people from all around the word'? Not sure what's multiligualism got to do with denomination.

Ahoj [ahoy] (think pirates ) - informal greeting (among friends etc.)

[volvoreta]

My first languages are Galician and Spanish. Hello is Ola, pronounced Olah (Galician) and Hola in Spanish, pronounced the same.

[RococoLocket]

Hello in Arabic is 'Marhaba' & is pronounced as written

[adilyoussef]

In my dilect which is Morocca Arabic, Hello is "Sallam". Pronounce ['sala:m].But as we wer collonised by Frence, some say "salut" which is a Franch word pronounced [salU:]. Notice that the 'u' is transcribed in capital because it's not pronounced like the English way. It is a little soft: a front hight rounded vowel.

[volvoreta]

Hello in Arabic is 'Marhaba' & is pronounced as written

In what dialect? I'd heard 'merhaba' in Turkish; in Arabic, I always heard sallam

[Themis]

My native language is German. In Austria we say " Servus" [sehr-voos] (and no, it's not meant to be insulting and nowadays it has got nothing to do with the world "slave" - because servus is slave in latin... just thought .. I should warn you ). We also say "Hallo", though. [ha-loh]

[Mark F.]

English/French here : hello is Bonjour, it actually means Good day.

[Schokokeks]

hey!

it's not my mother tongue and I speak only very little of it, but thought you might like to know how to greet someone from Sweden

'tjäna' is hello in Swedish, pronounced [tch-ay-na] (tch like chocolate, ay like way)

[Scatterbrain]

My native language is Finnish
Hello in Finnish would basically be "hei" (pronounced quite like hey)
Or maybe "päivää" (but that is more like "good afternoon"...)

[RococoLocket]

In what dialect? I'd heard 'merhaba' in Turkish; in Arabic, I always heard sallam

Well my family are Lebonese & Jordanian so ... that dialect. Yeah.

[adilyoussef]

In what dialect? I'd heard 'merhaba' in Turkish; in Arabic, I always heard sallam

'marhaba' usually means welcome. But the greating in all arab countries is 'sallam'.

[Nightshade]

Hello actuallty adil it is more the muslim greeting, isnt it ( it means peace )
In egypt unless you are being formal you sort of just jump in with Izayak(Is-ay-ack) How are you??
Great thread

[Koa]

My native language is Finnish
Hello in Finnish would basically be "hei" (pronounced quite like hey)
Or maybe "päivää" (but that is more like "good afternoon"...)

I also heard MOI...

Nice thread for a language freak like myself (that is, someone who loves languages possibily more than anything)...

Italian here, as you might already know our hello is CIAO (well prononuced like chao if I need to say so...)

I'll add some languages that noone will probably add, that is
Hungarian: SZIA (see-a, very similar to english see ya ) - if you say it to more than one person it becomes 'plural': SZIASZTOK (see-ah-stok) ; sometimes they say SZERVUSZ, just like SERVUS in Austria. (yeah and they make SZERVUSZTOK of it I think...). As you might have guessed by now, the sound S is written as SZ in Hungarian.
and
Russian: PRIVET (priviet, sort of) or ZDRASTVUJ, just prononuce every letter...if you manage lol. (That becomes ZDRASTVUJTE if it's plural or formal)