Hello (in a foreign language!!)

Bongiorno. That’s good morning in Italian. Got taught that by an Italian lad that I was learning to fly with ten years (blimey! 😮 ) ago. The only other phrase he taught me was quite apt for Illinois in late October. Futtuto tempe di merdi. I’ll let one of our resident Italians translate that one for you. 😀

Prynhawn Da in Welsh (actually means good afternoon).

Saladai ka in Thai

Angyonghasiyo in Korean

Shalom in Hebrew

Priviet in Russian

Kem Chho? – In Gujarati

Namaskaram in Tamil

Ki Haal – Punjabi

Namashkar – Sanskrit
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In Belgium.

First you say ‘Hallo’ and if the person doesn’t respond, try saying ‘bonjour’ 😀 And if that doesn’t work, say ‘Gutentag’. But really, make sure you say Hallo first in Flanders and not bonjour, or you will face consequences (the same for the Wallonians and the Germano Belgians). Though there are some communities in Flanders where it is better to say ‘Bonjour’ first.

And if you’re in Brussels, don’t say anything! Just continue walking, and act if nobody’s there. 😀 😀 Most likely a Belgian will respond to you in Japanese though, even if you look like an average European.

Can you imagine the difficult job our king has when he holds his anual speech on our national holiday. And that our Queen doesn’t speak any of the three official languages 😀 She’s Italian.

If Belgium would have been a republic, surely, it should be named the one and only banana republic.

Djin-dobry is Polish… not quite Hello… but it’s the equivalent of Bonjour in French!

Stravatai – Bulgarian

N’jani – Swahili or Zulu

Hello in Scottish – “Haw ya fanny !!!”

In Dutch Hello is:’ Hallo’ ! not that difficult.

In Broo-ad Yorksher (Broad Yorkshire) we might say

“ah ta all reyt?” (literally “are you all right?”, the “reyt” would rhyme with “eight”)

Howzitgaun in Glaswiegian !

Hola — Spanish

Ahalan — Arabic

C’kemi — Albanian

Zdravei — Bulgarian

Tere — Estonian

Hei — Finnish

Geia sou — Greek

Merhaba — Turkish

In Russian:
Privyet!
or
Zdravstvuy (or, more polite, Zdravstvuyte).

And, in wondefully difficult Dutch,
Hallo.

namaste-in Hindi

I forgot :
In German Guten Morgen or Guten Tag

There are many ways in Portuguese:
– Olá
– Oi
– Alô

Japanese

Ohayoo Saying hello in the morning.

full version of above Ohiyo gozaimaze

Konichiwa saying hello during the day

Konbanwa saying hello in the evening.

Japanese is a very fun language.

http://japanese.about.com/blank12.htm

Bouônjour….in Norman French.

some of the hello’s i know.. most don’t really translate exactly as hello but is used to the same effect

French – bon jour
korean – annyoung haseyo
turkish – selam
kazakh, uzbek, tatar – salam
turkmen – essalam
vietnamese – ciao (pronounced like jao)
mandarin – ni hao