Phrases

International Students
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<p>Now...I know posts are suppose to be ALL in English (but loookin' around I see some exception :p) but I thought it might be cool if we put down a phrase in English + home country language (unless we're from Canada, UK, Aussie, etc) + any other language we know that we use constantly. Be cool to drop them randomly in conversation at home/school. :p</p>

<p>My most used phrase in the world</p>

<p>English: I don't know!
Malay: Saya tidak tahu!
French: Je ne sais pas!
Spanish: Yo no se! (Don't know how to do accents, sorry!! :()
Romanian: Nu stiu. (Again, sorry about no accents!)</p>

2

<p>there's also
Italian:Io non so
and I think it's like this in
Portuguese: eu nao sabo :)</p>

3

<p>Bulgarian: Ne znam
Russian: Ne znaiu
German: Ich weiss nicht</p>

4

<p>nepali: malai thachhaina (difficult to write it in english)</p>

5

<p>Cool! I can freak out my teachers now. But you guys didn't have to translate "I don't know". It could be your own phrase.</p>

<p>"Izzy, when did Germany reunite?"</p>

<p>"Ich weiss nicht!!"</p>

6

<p>English: This is my 100th post
Bulgarian: Tova e moqt 100 post
Russian: Eto moi 100 post
German: Das ist mein 100 Post
Italian: E il mio 100 post (imagine an accent above the "E")
Romanian: Acesta este meu 100 post (is this correct?)</p>

<p>I'm assuming the word "post" is an international word</p>

7

<p>Congratulations!!! (I have no idea about the Romanian translation...)</p>

<p>By the way...that's a lot of languages you know!</p>

8

<p>You wrote "I don't know" in the same number of languages. :) I'm studying Italian and Romanian independently, so I'm not good at them :(</p>

<p>Yuppee!!! I'm now in my 100s :D</p>

9

<p>in Romanian it's a little bit more complicated. there are more ways to say it but it's kinda like this: "acesta este cel de-al 100-lea (o sutalea) meu post" ....and in Italian I think you missed a "questo" for "this" :)</p>

10

<p>It sounds so complicated in Romanian! Anyway, it's a very nice language and I really want to be able to speak it. In Italian there's no need to use a subject, so it's correct with or without "questo".</p>

<p>I spent most of my day on CC, though I know I have so much to study! No temptations anymore! I'm going to study! So, bye for now, guys ;)</p>

11

<p>haha...the same goes for me! but I don't think I'll be able to resist temptaton :p .... and btw....in Romanian too you don't really have to use the subject, I was just saying you could have used "questo" because of a complete translation(meaning to have a correspondence between terms in each language).... have I managed to make myself clear?...I don't really think so :o
also, I really like Romanian being my native language because it's pretty hard for other people to really learn it :D</p>

12

<p>Mandarin: Wo pu zhi tao
Hokkien: Wa mm zhai
Cantonese: Ngor mm chi
Japanese: Wakaranai</p>

13

<p>you rock! Do you study them at school? Where's Hokkien spoken?(excuse my ignorance <em>blushed</em> :o)</p>

14

<p>Hokkien is a dialect of the CHinese. For instance, in India, there's Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam...etc.</p>

<p>i don learn them in school. i learn them outside, from speaking. so i only can speak but not write.</p>

<p>but for japanese i can speak write and read.</p>

15

<p>I remember for the TOEFL paper registration a few years ago I put down "Malay" and the number for it as my first language, but it came out as "Malayalam". I was a little surprised.</p>

<p>Hookien Mee!!</p>

16

<p>Indonesian: Saya tidak tau
Tamil: Ey-ne-ke teri-ya-thu
Javanese: em-bho</p>

<p>-타지</p>

17

<p>taj, what does it mean?</p>

18

<p>it means "i dont know"</p>

19

<p>I thought banedon had written "I don't know" but his Japanese version is different from yours. Banedon, what have you written?</p>

20

<p>his is japanese...mine's jaVanese..</p>

<p>Javanese is a traditional indonesian language..</p>