Tuesday, 24 March 2009

• YO! Drink Up!

  

  Every group has a toast they like to say right before they drink into the sweet sweet nectar sitting in the cup in their hands. When I was in Brazil last year, we learned that the toast was "Saúde!", which was pronounced (sah-yoo-dee). We ended up using that whenever we drank for the rest of our trip through Brazil.
  
  My personal favorite that my friends and I use is a lot simpler, which is especially useful when you're too drunk to sound out too many syllables. We simply say "Yo!".
  
  I found this list of drinking toasts for different countries here: 
  
  French …….. “A votre sante!”
  Italian ……... “ Alla Salute!”
  British……… “Cheers!”
  Hungarian…. “Egé szé gé re!”
  Japanese…… “Kanpai!”
  Polish……… “Na Zdrowie!”
  Russian……. “Za vashe zdorovye!”
  Greek……… “Yasas!”
  Chinese…… “Wen Lie!”
  Irish……….. “Slainte!”
  Swedish…… “Skal!”
  Brazilian….. “Saúde!”
  Spanish…… “Salud!”
  German…… “Prosit!”
  Zulu(Africa). “Ooogy Wawa!”
  India......"Tulleeho!"
  
  Which toasts does your group use? Are there any toasts from your country not on the list?

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