Today's challenge.
Can you find me ten easy to remember words in foreign languages?
Can you find me ten easy to remember words in foreign languages?
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English / American / Australian / Kiwi (New Zealand)
1 French
2 German
3 Spanish
4 Italian
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5 Portugese
Now for the harder ones:
6 Greek (modern)
7 Hebrew (modern)
8 Russian (Cyrillic - also for use in Bulgaria)
9 Chinese (modern and in pinyin which is English alphabet). Also used in Singapore
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10 Malay / Indonesian
11 Tamil/Urdu/Hindi
12 Arabic (modern)
13 Japanese
My Facebook friends made these suggestions:
From another friend called Angela, who is overseas:
One language is hard enough. Missing you.
From my Greek friend from Toastmasters, Panos:
Greek words:
Logos -
Ethos -
Pathos
(These are also borrowed in making words such as logic, ethics and pathology etc.)
Thank you in other languages
Filipino / salamat
Chinese / xie xie
German / danke
Spanish / gracias
Italian / grazie
Portuguese / obrigado
Dutch / dank u
Japanese / arrigatu
French / merci (The same word is used understood in Romania)
English / Thank you
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember: tinyurl.com/BHACOOL
Useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html Please share links to your favourite posts
translate.google.com
duolingo.com
My Facebook friends made these suggestions:
From another friend called Angela, who is overseas:
One language is hard enough. Missing you.
From my Greek friend from Toastmasters, Panos:
Greek words:
Logos -
Ethos -
Pathos
(These are also borrowed in making words such as logic, ethics and pathology etc.)
Thank you in other languages
Filipino / salamat
Chinese / xie xie
German / danke
Spanish / gracias
Italian / grazie
Portuguese / obrigado
Dutch / dank u
Japanese / arrigatu
French / merci (The same word is used understood in Romania)
English / Thank you
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember: tinyurl.com/BHACOOL
Useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html Please share links to your favourite posts
translate.google.com
duolingo.com
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