Not that it matters one whit, but when it comes to languages, I know snippets of things. Also, I am too lazy today to supply the accents and diacritical markings. You'll have to do that yourself.
French: coup d’etat, c’est la vie, bon soir, coup de grace, c’est la guerre, au revoir, honi soit qui mal y pense, oui, non, peut-etre, merci beaucoups, liberte, egalite, fraternite
Spanish: Feliz Navidad, si senor, gracias, mas agua por favor
Swedish: god Jul, varsogod, sjo hundra sjottiosjo, tack so mycket, var finst der herrtoaletten?
Portuguese: obrigado, feliz Natal, bom Dia
Japanese: arigato, sayonara, sukiyaki, teriyaki, mitsubishi
German: Auf Wiedersehen, gesundheit, dummkopf, ich liebe dich, Wiener schnitzel
Chinese: sheh-sheh, ni hao?, ding hao!
Swahili: jambo, asante
Italian: ciao
I hope you know I am only kidding. Sort of.
I just remembered that I also know a few Russian words and quite a few Albanian words, but you probably don't care so I won't bore you further with them.
This is my 1,800th post since September 28, 2007.
It is surprising that you can recall so little Swedish having resided in Sweden for an enormous chunk of your life. Weren't you the IBM boss in Sweden?
ReplyDeleteYorkshire Pudding, I was in Sweden for only one month, from Feb. 1st until March 1, in the year 1969. I never "resided" there at all. Carl VI Gustav was not king then; Gustav VI Adolph was. And I wasn't IBM boss either. If I had been IBM boss, I would have chosen to go in June instead of February.
DeleteBits and pieces are all I know too. Not very useful I'm afraid.
ReplyDeleteEmma, I agree. but it impresses those who know even less.
DeleteI like that French word: bolleaux
ReplyDeleteTasker Dunham, google translate doesn't recognize the word but I can guess what you mean.
DeleteCongratulations on 1800 posts! That's quite an achievement! I've always admired people that spoke many languages - even snippets of them. I took French in school but never got beyond reading a limited amount. Conversational French left me in the dark. Your many snippets of languages could come in handy.
ReplyDeleteBonnie, the only language I speak is English, I'm sorry to say. I just know snippets of these others. I took a year of Latin and a year of French.
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