Family Fun Night: How to say Thank you in 10 Languages

travel at home…

It’s our family’s dream to one day travel together out of the country.  There are six of us so that’s a big goal expense-wise especially for the kind of trip we’d like to make.

In the meantime, we don’t have to just sit around and wait for the day when we board a plane and fly off into the wild blue yonder.  We can begin learning the languages by starting small…little words and phrases like:

Thank You, My name is…, I need directions to…, Where is the bathroom?

Doing something about your dreams also makes them feel like they’re actually going to happen and reminds you that you really do want them to happen.

Thank You: In 10 Languages

Spanish:  Gracias

Italian:  Grazie

French:  Merci

German:  Danke

Greek:  Euxaristo

Portuguese: Obrigado or Obrigada

Swedish: Tack

Dutch: Bedankt

Japanese: Arigato

Chinese: Daw Jah

 

Hello

German:  Hallo

Spanish:  Hola

French:  Bonjour

Hindi:  Namaste

Italian:  ciào

Romanian:  salut

South African:  hoezit (pronounced howzit)

Hawaiian:  Aloha

Swahili:  Jambo

Congo:  Mambo

Where is it?

Dutch: Waar is het?
French: Où est-il?
German: Wo ist es?
Japanese: Doko desu ka?
Spanish: ¿Donde está?
Swedish: Var är det?

My name is…

Dutch: Ik heet… (Ick hate)
French: Je m’appelle (Jhe- ma- pelle)
German: Ich heisse (Ikh High- saa)
Greek: Me lene (Meh Lehneh)
Hindi: Merā nām … hai (Mayrah nahm … heye)
Hungarian: A nevem… (A neh-wem)
Irish Gaelic: Mise (Mish-eh)
Russian: Mеня зовут (Menya zavoot)
Italian: Mi Chiamo (Mee Kyahmoe)
Latin: Mihi Nomen Est (me-he no-men est)
Romanian: Ma chiama/Numele meu este
Japanese: 私の名前は…です。(Watashi no namae wa … desu)
Norwegian: Navnet mitt er

 

Divertimento! (Have Fun: Italian)

Does your family speak more than one language? How did you learn it? (Tell me in the comments below!)

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