440: Don't Ever Said I Taught Ya Nothin', Neither...

[andyleggett]

Because I am becoming ever more interested in linguistics, I am trying to learn simple phrases in as many different languages as possible, and bulletining them here in the language lab. Here's what I've got so far:

How to Say 'Hello' and 'Goodbye' in Ten Tongues

ENGLISHHelloGoodbyeFRENCHBonjourAu revoirITALIANBuon giornoArrivederchiSPANISHBuenas dìasAdìos GERMANGuten tagAuf wiedersehen! CZECHDobrý denNa schledanou! HUNGARIANJó napotViszlát RUSSIANZdravstvuyteDo svidaniya JAPANESEKonnichiwaSayonara CHINESENi haoZaì jiàn 
Notes:
1. The 'j' in 'bonjour' sounds like 'sh'; 'au revoir' is often pronounced as one word: "are-voir'.
2. Italian is a phonetic language: "bwOn-gyore-no"; "ah-rive-ah-dere-chee'.
3. If you live in California, you've used these Spanish phrases already. (Hint: the 'i's are stressed.)
4. Fairly phonetic in the German, I think...
5. For the Czech, I'm guessing stress on the 'y', and "na schledanou' is pronounced similarly to the russian 'da svidaniya'.
6. Like many Slavic languages, in Hungarian 'j' sounds like 'y'; otherwise, pretty phonetic.
7. Transliterated from the cyrillic alphabet, "Zdravstvuyte' sounds like "strass-veet-yuh"; you've heard 'do svidaniya' in the movies before...
8. Do I even need to bother with an explanation for the Japanese?
9. 'Ni hao' is pretty phonetic; 'zai jian' is like "sai-shin".

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