Please and thank you
Te rog si multumesc
Bitte und danke
I dont know how to explain how to say a word to someone if they dont speak romanian
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In the order I learned them:
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🇷🇴 Romanian: Vă rog / Mulțumesc (native)
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🇨🇵 French: S'il-vous-plaît / Merci
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🇬🇧 English: Please / Thank you
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🇪🇦 Spanish: Por favor / Gracias
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🇯🇵 Japanese: Onegai / Arigato
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🇨🇳 Mandarin: Qing / Xiè xie
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🇮🇹 Italian: Per favore / Grazie
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🇩🇪 German: Bitte / Danke
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🇷🇺 Russian: Pozhalusta / Spasiba
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Hmm.
German, French, English, Japanese (seriously, I never realized how much language I took away from martial arts classes! And in my post about counting, a significant percent of other people did, too), Spanish, Esperanto. I think that's it - 6.
I can say "blindingly drunk" in Russian, which seems useful. Also, "trust, but verify," - thanks, Raegan. Two phrases, neither of which are "please or thank you," but matching the cardinality of your question so I should get a half-point.
Estonian: Palun / Aitäh
English: Please / Thank you
Define language… Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, English, French, German, BHS (Bosnian Croatian, Serbian), Esperanto, Czech, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish… i think that’s it.
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English, Spanish, Japanese.
Please, and thank you.
Por favor y gracias. (Pour fah-vore ee grassy ahs)
Kudasai, arigato. (Or if you wanna be extra polite: onegaishimasu, arigato gozaimasu) (Ku-dah sigh, are-ee gato/own ee guy mosh, are-ee gato go sigh moss)
I know "please" in German, but not thank you. Bitte.
Danke dahnk uh
English : Please, thank you
French: S'il te plait, merci
Spanish: Por favor, gracias
Japanese: お願い、ありがとう(oh neh gah i, arigatoo)
Off the top or my head: English, Spanish, German, Russian (assuming I remember from 35 years ago). On a good day I can remember Thai, but not today.
Spanish and German are well documented here.
So I dated a girl who took Russian in high school. I learned the alphabet. Sometimes I think I can still recite it, other times I stumble.
Phonetically (and likely butchered): speSEEba / paZHAlista
Only English. The words are entirely different in the other languages I know.
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Mostly thanks because that's the only word I learned when I'm visiting.
obrigado, obrigada - Portuguese Bitte/Danke - Deutsch dack - Dutch Gratzi - Italian Por favor/Gracias - Spanish Takk - norge Merci - French 不好意思。/ 謝謝 - Chinese ありがとう - Japanese Oi cunt / thank ye cunt
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Please & cheers.
S'il vois plait & merci (beaucoup)
Terog & multzumesc/multzumeme (singular vs. plural thank you)
Bitter & danke
-- & spaseba
-- & tak
Qîng & xìexìe
-- & diàhdiah
Had more, but forgot them. Have forgotten at the Turkish and a Miao language phrases.
Please (English)
- kiitos (Finnish)
- chōdai / kudasai (Japanese)
- s’il vous plaît (French)
- por favor (Spanish)
- bitte (German)
Thank you (English)
- kiitos (Finnish)
- arigatō (gozaimas) / dōmo (Japanese)
- gracias (Spanish)
- merci (French)
- grazie (Italian)
- kamsahamnida (Korean)
- xiexie (Chinese)
- tänan (Estonian)
- danke (German)
- spasiba (Russian)
- tack (Svedish)
I love the fact that Finnish doesn't have a way of saying please, so you just thank the person instead. The first time I was in Finland I learned to say "excuse me, I don't speak Finnish, do you speak English?", and because that was the only thing I learned I wanted to learn to pronounce it correctly, so I took the time and effort to learn how to pronounce it. The problem when I do this, is that most people don't learn basic niceties, and even the ones that do tent to mangle pronunciation, so native people think I'm kidding because it sounds like some native saying they don't speak the language. Also because the majority of interactions with people are simple "hello", "thanks", "bye" I like to pick up on those by listening to people, but not by studying it or anything.
All of that setup for this stupid story: One day I go to a supermarket and the lady tells me "Moi" (hi) and with the same cheerful tone of voice I've seen people use I replied with "Moi Moi" (bye bye). I had seen people use both Moi and Moi Moi, but hadn't noticed that one was hi and the other was bye, so I was accidentally cheerfully rude, and I still feel bad about it. If you're out there, I'm so sorry supermarket lady in Helsinki, I'm just a dumb tourist trying to be nice.
I'm Finnish and I've had so many similar "awkward" situations. I often use "tänks" (or thanks) and a few time the cashier thought I'm speaking English :D
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I am unsure how to best do the pronouncing, but en Español: por favor (last part of favor is more pronounced) gracias (first part is more pronounced) In English: please thank you (pronounce more the part that makes sense for the situation)
What about you :)
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please two. thank you five.
Please + thank you
Sil vous plait et Merci
Bitte + Danke
Por favor + Gracias
Shukran thanks in Arabic but I don't know how to say please.
English: Please : Thank you
French: Aujourd'hui : Merci
Spanish: Por Favor : Gracias
German: Regenbogen : Danke
Swedish: tillhör alla : tack
EDIT: This was just a small play at poetry as I wish I knew all of these languages but do not
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English
German
Spanish
Arabic
Korean
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