Friday, 01 May 2009
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Foreign Word - How Do You Say "Hello"?
How many lanuages do you know how to say "Hello" in?
Let's share our knowledge of foreign languages with the rest of the Tripcrazed community and comment with all ways to say "hello" in different languages.
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I say "bonjour" !!
ciao, hola, hallo, merhaba, hei, ni hao, jambo, ...there are plenty more but they can't come to mind right now...
anyong, bounjorno, hallo, hola, helo
Dia Dhuit, Bonjour, hola, ni hao, aloha, gutan tag,
Japanese = Konichiwa; Hindi = namastey; Swedish = Hej; .... thats all I can think of right now
Ni hao! - Part of my family only speaks Chinese
Guten tag! - 3 years of German classes
Hola! - Living in Ecuador
Bonjour! - Beauty and the Beast
:o)
hello - English
bonjour - French
hola - Spanish
gutentag - German
bonjorno (sp?) - Italian
namaste - Hindi
konichiwa - Japanese
ni hao - Mandarin
nei ho - Cantonese
anyohaseyo - Korean
jambo - Swahili
hei; moi; tereve - Finnish
kumusta - Tagalog (Philippines)
* I collect "hello", "Thank you" and "goodbye" in different languages. :) I think I have more somewhere in my brain, but they're not coming out right now. It's so much fun, and nothing can describe the look on peoples' faces when I say something in their own language...it's like a mix of surprise, relief, and pride.
hola, bonjour, 你好 (ni hao in Mandarin, nong hao in Shanghainese), konichi wa, jambo, guten tag, anyang haseyo... and i think it's "hej" in Danish, and "buongiorno" in Italian, but i'm not sure.
@Random_Goldfish@xanga - what language is "dia dhuit"?
Hmmm...Let's see...English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Korean (I think), Japanese...And my Russian friend told me how to say it in Russian the other day, but unfortunately, I completely forgot :S
@EccentricSiren@xanga - I forget Russian all the time too. I know the word "prevyet", but I can't remember if that's hello or thank you.
Shalom = Hello and Goodbye and peace :)
A lot since I have a Flickr account...
hello, hola, bonjour, kumusta, ciao, anyongsaeyo (sp?), jambo, nihaoma
Hello. xD
In Mandarin it would be "Ni hao."
In Cantonese it would be "Ney Ho."
In Japanese it would depend on the time of day. Since it's morning right now it would be "Ohayo!" (Good morning)
@kachino@xanga - LMAO... me too! But I'm sure you don't remember them all!
@BerryBerries@xanga - Ohayo or OHIO? ;)
@anne - Really? Want to test me?
@kachino@xanga - Swahili... go!
@anne - Jambo! (after 100 click of the refresh button)...
Other people covered my intended response, already. Haha. Except I'd count Cantonese as a dialect, but whatever =].
@anne - in Tshiluba?
Hint: Mayo...
hello, hola, bonjour, guten tag, konnichiwa (sp?), ciao...
those are all the ones i can think of.
and i dont even know if they're right.
i can only speak english and some spanish though.
but i know those words are hello.
@kachino@xanga - haha ^_~
Hello, bonjour (and salut), hola, guten tag, aloha, jen dobra (sp? - Polish), the ASL sign for hello, konichiwa, shalom (which I use way too much for my own good)