Languages

whisky'sdad · Feb 4, 2010

Czech:

I lived in Prague the 1st 4 months of 2009.

Hi - ahoj (ahoy) spoken only if you knew the person well, otherwise it is Good day (dobrÃ½ den)

How are you - Jak se mÃ¡š (yahk see ?)
Please - ProsÃ:censor:m (pro-seem)
Thank you - Děkujeme vÃ¡m (Da-koo-eee vahm?) Czechs usually only say the first word. I never heard the second word.

Your welcome - RÃ¡do se stalo (don't remember)
Cat - kočka (no idea)

Here are some others...

Good day - dobrÃ½ den (dohbree-den) Said to the cashier, bank teller, etc instead of "Hi"
Good evening - dobrÃ½ večer (dohbree vahseer)
Do you speak english? MluvÃ:censor:te anglicky? (Mlah-veetay oon-glits-skee)

mimosa · Feb 5, 2010

Dutch.
In Dutch there a two forms of the second person. To people you know and children you can say "jij" (or je/jou depending on the sentence) but to older people or people you should otherwise be extra polite to like customers or your boss you say "u". Although nowadays there are always people who don't like to be adressed with "u" because it makes them feel old or because it creates a distance.
It is like tu/vous in French, the Dutch even use the loanword tutoyer to tell someone they can say "jij".

Hi (hello) = Hoi or hallo
How are you = Hoe gaat het met u/jou
Please = alstublieft/alsjeblieft
Thank you = dankuwel/dankjewel or dank u/dank je
You're welcome = graag gedaan
cat = kat, male cat = kater, female cat = poes
manx

= I guess that's the same anywhere since it means tailless cat from the Isle of Man.

YES = ja
NO = nee
MAYBE = misschien

lyrajean · Feb 5, 2010

In Japanese (I'm writing here in latin characters not hiragana alphabet which would be pretty unintelligble for most of you I bet):

Hello (or good afternoon) is konnichiwa
How are you is Genki desu ka?
One way to say please is kudasai. The Japanese have many.
Thank you informally is arigatou
More formally is arigatou gozaimasu or domo arigatou gozaimasu. Generally speaking the longer a phrase is the more polite it is.
You're welcome is dou ittashimashite
cat is neko
tail is shippo
calico cat is mi-ke neko
female cat is onna no neko
male cat is otoko no neko

Japanese has 4 alphabets, hiragana phonetic characters, kana for foreign phonetic characters, kanji chinese pictograms and they've borrowed the Latin alphabet called romanji.

bookworm · Feb 5, 2010

Wonderful thread! All I speak (besides English, lol) is a bit of broken Spanish learned in restaurant kitchens and factory floors. I have gotten fairly fluent in translating my husbands (from deep in the hills of Kentucky) version of English....

myrage · Feb 5, 2010

Originally Posted by Lyrajean

Genki desu ka?

Is there a difference between o genki desu ka and just genki desu ka? We had a japanese exchange student named Anna, and she always said o genki desu ka.

This is so great!!

I figured I would get a few replies, but I wasn't expecting so many different languages!!! My biological grandfather's side is Chec. My maiden name would have been Zharodnicek (SP? LOL) If my dad hadn't been addopted and given a different one. So that is very groovy to me.

I will eventually get all the languages all put into a word pad, and print them all out.

Thank you all for answering me, and I am still thinking up words.

Thanks again

Be Safe.

mrblanche · Feb 5, 2010

Hi (hello) Bonjour (good day), bonsoir (good evening) salut (informal)
How are you Comment allez vous? (formal), Comment ca va? (Informa), Ca va? (very informal)
Please S'il vous plait.
Thank you Merci
You're welcome Je t'en prie. or, De rien.
cat
manx

After thought
YES Oui (except in one isolated case, when you want to give a positive answer to a negative question, i.e., "Tu ne vas a l'ecole, n'est-ce pa?" "Si." You're not going to school, are you? Yes, I am going.
NO Non
MAYBE Peut etre.

mismaris777 · Feb 5, 2010

I'm fluent in German (although I can spell and read it better than I can speak it, it was my first language that I ever learned besides the standard momma and dadda, bratwurst was my first solid food I ever ate), my dad was born in Germany (heck his name is Uwe and the correct spelling of my last name is KÃ¤ding) and lived there till he was in his mid-late 20s, and his entire side of the family lives over there in Kiel (it's like as far north as you can get without standing in the sea lol they are as viking as a German can get

). I also have dual citizenship- US and Germany. I travel to Germany on a regular basis and if things don't work out for me here, I know my Oma wants me to come and live with her

.

Hi (hello)= hallo
How are you= Wie geht es Ihnen
Please= bitte
Thank you= Danke
(add

Thank you very much: Danke schÃ¶n
You're welcome= Bitte schÃ¶n
cat= Katze
manx= not sure exactly, but logically it seems to me like it would just stay manx, or to label it maybe it would be manx katze or katze manx. If u want to say something like "sweet little manx" or "cute little manx" would be somewhere along the lines of manxchen (wait that looks weird lol) or katzchen manx or manx katzchen. I call my cats "mein liebchen" all the time, which is like saying "little lovely" or something sweet and cute and cuddly

. Like the words "a little bit" would translate to "ein bisschen"

After thought
YES= ja
NO= nein
MAYBE=?
Do you speak english?= Sprechen sie Englisch?
I don't speak German.= Ich spreche kein Deutsch
I love my cats= Ich liebe meine Katzen
This is not so good= Das ist nicht so gut

ok I'll stop

. I also know some Polish (benefit of living in Milwaukee, wisconsin lol), french and spanish, as well as some ojibwa first american/peoples. Out of all of them, Ojibwa is the hardest by FARRRR. French and spanish are kinda the same, and polish just sounds funny so it sticks in your head

vampcow · Feb 5, 2010

MyRage;2816791 said:
Is there a difference between o genki desu ka and just genki desu ka? We had a japanese exchange student named Anna, and she always said o genki desu ka.

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Not really. The Japanese put the O infront to make it more polite. I speak Japanese also. When I address my Japanese teacher I always put the O in front but when I am chatting with my friends I drop the O.

belongstoevie · Feb 5, 2010

Originally Posted by Lyrajean

In Japanese (I'm writing here in latin characters not hiragana alphabet which would be pretty unintelligble for most of you I bet):

Hello (or good afternoon) is konnichiwa
How are you is Genki desu ka?
One way to say please is kudasai. The Japanese have many.
Thank you informally is arigatou
More formally is arigatou gozaimasu or domo arigatou gozaimasu. Generally speaking the longer a phrase is the more polite it is.
You're welcome is dou ittashimashite
cat is neko
tail is shippo
calico cat is mi-ke neko
female cat is onna no neko
male cat is otoko no neko

Japanese has 4 alphabets, hiragana phonetic characters, kana for foreign phonetic characters, kanji chinese pictograms and they've borrowed the Latin alphabet called romanji.

Hmm... I'm no native speaker, but isn't onna and otoko used only for people? In animals, isn't it osu and mesu?

Maybe I'm confused...

yayi · Feb 5, 2010

How about Filipino?

Hi (hello) - Halo, helo, hoy
How are you - Kumusta ka? (informal) Kumusta po kayo? (formal)
Please - Paki (followed by the request)
Thank you - Salamat
You're welcome - Walang anuman
cat - pusa
manx

- manx

YES - Oo
No - Hindi
MAYBE - Baka

Cat with stump on her butt? - Pusa may bukol sa pwet
Cat with no tail - Pusa walang buntot
short tail cat - Pusa maiksing buntot

myrage · Feb 5, 2010

Originally Posted by vampcow

Originally Posted by MyRage

Is there a difference between o genki desu ka and just genki desu ka? We had a japanese exchange student named Anna, and she always said o genki desu ka.

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Not really. The Japanese put the O infront to make it more polite. I speak Japanese also. When I address my Japanese teacher I always put the O in front but when I am chatting with my friends I drop the O.

Okay...

Thank you, it all makes sense. So when she was speaking Japanese to me (I asked her to a lot because I liked to hear it) she was speaking politely!!

Very cool, thank you

Be safe.

lyrajean · Feb 5, 2010

Originally Posted by BelongsToEvie

Hmm... I'm no native speaker, but isn't onna and otoko used only for people? In animals, isn't it osu and mesu?

Maybe I'm confused...

no, its used to describe critters too. If somebody asks you is it a girl or a boy cat? Ususally answer with onna no neko or otoko no neko. "It's a girl-cat,"

If you are checking boxes on a form that ask you for sex. Its osu and mesu.

myrage · Feb 5, 2010

My interest in languages goes way back, to when I was a young kid and listening to my elders speaking in Cheyenne. I learned some, not much, but a few words, but they are all gone with time. I also learned some souix when I was 10, but that too, time has taken.

I ran across this picture I thought it was cute. I'm the one in the middle, and i think you can guess who the Japanese exchange student is.

We took this picture so she could send it to her friends at home.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v394/MyFelinez/01 Ladi NyghtShade/scanned090909.jpg

Be safe.

myrage · Feb 10, 2010

Any more languages?

I was curious about...

Love
I love you
I love cats
Here kitty kitty (How ever one would call a cat in another language)
friend

I appreciate all the languages shared

Be safe.

natalie_ca · Feb 11, 2010

I love languages too!

I can read a bit of Spanish...can't speak it though.

I used to be fluent in French but lost my ability to really speak it. But I can still read and understand enough to piece together what is being talked about. I want to take a refresher. Because we are Bilingual here, work will pay for it for me...once I pass the course.

And I learned Danish because my ex is Danish and his parents lived in Denmark. He told me that neither spoke English. So because I was madly in love and his family wanted to talk to me, I learned Danish. Imagine my surprise when I called and wished them a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in Danish and they responded back in perfect English!!

I lost my ability to speak it, but I can probably put together the sentences / words that you are wanting to know. I'm going to work now, so I'll do it when I get home.

And I know some American Sign Language. A hand full of words and the alphabet. Enough to get me by.

One language I really want to learn is Japanese! And maybe Cree, because it is in my heritage and we tend to see a large population of Cree people in my job.

lyrajean · Feb 11, 2010

Originally Posted by MyRage

Love
I love you
I love cats
Here kitty kitty (How ever one would call a cat in another language)
friend

I appreciate all the languages shared

Be safe.

More Japanese since some people seem to be interested in it:

Love ai
I love you aishiteru
I love cats neko ga suki
Here kitty kitty... I honestly don't know.
friend tomodachi

northernglow · Feb 11, 2010

In Finnish and Swedish

Originally Posted by MyRage

I LOVE languages. I'm sure some of you out there speak different languages, so if you wouldn't mind....

...how do you say (write)...

Hi (hello) Hei, Hej
How are you MitÃ¤ kuuluu?, Hur mÃ¥r du?
Please Ole hyvÃ¤ (not sure about the swedish..)
Thank you Kiitos, Tack (so mycket=very much)
You're welcome Ole hyvÃ¤ (again don't know the swedish..)
cat kissa, katt
manx

manx

After thought
YES KyllÃ¤, Ja
NO Ei, Nej
MAYBE EhkÃ¤, Kanske

hmm... I'm sure there are more words I want to know, but... wouldn't it just figure, I lost them!

Thank you

Be Safe.

If no word for manx, how about
Cat with stump on her butt?
or
Cat with no tail
short tail cat
manx is a manx, but short = lyhyt,kort, and tail is hÃ¤ntÃ¤, svans, without tail = hÃ¤nnÃ¤tÃ¶n, svanslÃ¶sa. We also use the 'rumpy, stumpy etc. to tell the lenght of the tail.

Originally Posted by TigerOnTheProwl

German.

cat=Die Katze and males are (Der) Kater

Originally Posted by MyRage

Any more languages?

I was curious about...

Love Rakkaus, KÃ¤rlek
I love you MinÃ¤ rakastan sinua, Jag Ã¤skar dig
I love cats MinÃ¤ rakastan kissoja, Jag Ã¤lskar katter

I appreciate all the languages shared

Be safe.

Swedish speakers, feel free to correct me.

tigerontheprowl · Feb 11, 2010

Originally Posted by MyRage

Any more languages?

I was curious about...

Love
I love you
I love cats
Here kitty kitty (How ever one would call a cat in another language)
friend

I appreciate all the languages shared

Be safe.

Here's some more German

Love = Liebe
I love you = Ich liebe dich
I love cats = Ich liebe Katzen
Here kitty kitty = I guess the closest would be hier Miezekatze Miezekatze

It's quite a mouthful
Male friend = Freund
Female friend = Freundin
Friends = Freunde

After thought
You make me so happy! = Du machst mich so glÃ¼cklich!
Love bite = Knutschfleck
I'm in love = Ich bin verliebt

myrage · Feb 11, 2010

My husband would love to have this phrase translated. It was in another one of my threads about my cats, and everyone I have shared this saying with has loved it. Carolinalima shared it, and we all love it so much! So if it can be translated with possible phonectic (SP?) so he can try to sound it out. He says he might put it into a song. I bet it will be in a song my brother writes or my hubby writes. It's my new fave motto!!

"In the end, everything works out... If it doesn't work out, you haven't reached the end yet."

Thank you all for the translations, I'm loving it so much.

I didn't realize so many people with so many backgrounds in different languages were here, and so eager to share. YOu all RULE!!!

Be safe.

Ps... how would I say Be Safe in other languages?

lyrajean · Feb 11, 2010

Be safe...

Japanese is: ki o tsukete ne

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