Share your Language!

DreamerM · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 03:55

Hey guys! Sorry if this is a dorky idea. But this is such an international forum that I think we'd be fools not to take advantage of it!

For example, il3hameed (a Kuwaiti) and Gogo (An Egyptian) taught me some Arabic words:

Salam: Hello/goodbye (informal)
Akl: food
ketab: book
rasem: paint
waraa: paper
Nar: fire
moheet: ocean
"bahr: sea

"Mah el salama!" Take care!

"kiss ulmick ya hmar!" is what you yell at the jerk on the freeway who just cut you off. :evil:

Dandelion, a Fin, taught me a few words in Finnish!

hikka: hiccups!
kala: fish
nukka: sleep
liesi: Stove (lee-ee-see)
uuni: oven
uni: dream!
Unelmoija: Daydreamer!

Everyone cal me Unelmoija-M from now on!

So just post some words here: curse words, greetings, or household objects! It's nothing flashy but over time learning a handful of words a day "could really make a big difference in communication!" (as Dandelion said!)

What do you think?

StormRoseSky2 · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 08:57

I think it's a great idea! Especially for those of us over here in the states, it would be cool to learn some new languages!

Kuborion · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 10:28

Great idea indeed.
Lemme share something from our Slovak language:

Ahoj ................... Hello
Dobrý deň .......... Good day
Dovidenia ........... Goodbye
Jedlo ................... Food
Priateľ ................. Friend
Jadrová hlavica ... Nuclear warhead

over_maybe · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 10:33

Interesting topic

but i think learning the correct pronunciation is hard for foreigners(at least for me

)
I'm iranian and 'Ketab' and 'Salam' have similar meanings in persian but 'Salam' only means "Hello" :roll:

btw (In Arabic) "bahr" means sea not "bahar" :lol:

DreamerM · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 11:28

over_maybe wrote:

Interesting topic

but i think learning the correct pronunciation is hard for foreigners(at least for me

)
I'm iranian and 'Ketab' and 'Salam' have similar meanings in persian but 'Salam' only means "Hello" :roll:

btw (In Arabic) "bahr" means sea not "bahar" :lol:

Whoops! Fixed! Thanks for the catch.

Yah pronunciation is hard...if you could break your words down phonetically, that'd be a help. It's not a must though, this stuff is just for fun.

So do we get to learn any Persian OM??

il3ameed · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 12:50

DreamerM wrote:

For example, il3hameed (a Kuwaiti)

moheet: ocean
bahr: sea

"Mah el salama!" Take care!

"kiss ulmick ya hmar!" is what you yell at the jerk on the freeway who just cut you off. :evil:

il3ameed

and then it isnt necessarily bahr everywhere, in the actual arabic language, it is bahr.. but in Kuwaiti its bahar.. so both can be right..

Ma'a al salama can also be used as good bye..

UMIK! not ulmik...
umik for a guy
umich for a girl..

just wanted to fix up a few things

over_maybe · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 12:55

^I didn't know that

OK,These are some of persian words or sentences:
I : Man
Food:Ghazaa
Hello:Salam
Goodbye:Khodahafez-->It means God(Khoda) protects you
Friend:Doost
Spring:Bahaar

il3ameed · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 13:00

i'm pretty sure none of you can say this..
Khashim: nose

and one of my favorite words...
chub: shut up

and if you want to shut some one up, the alternative for chub, and the also ruder alternative is: ikil khara for a guy and iklay khara for a girl..

Ree · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 14:04

Some of these words are pretty hard to pronounce

Some Welsh for you:

cariad (car-ee-ad): Love (pronoun)
Dw i'n caru di (doo een car-ee dee): I love you
Bardd (barth): Poet
Bierdd oddi ar hydred (can't pronounce these myself!): Poets of the Fall

Dim siarad cachu tarw (dim sha-rad cack-ee tah-roo): Stop talking bullshit
Nachu bant! (nack-ee bant): F*** off
......... ydw i (.... udd-doo eeh) My name is.....

sorrow · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 15:58

Kuborion wrote:

Great idea indeed.
Lemme share something from our Slovak language:

Ahoj ................... Hello
Dobrý deň .......... Good day
Dovidenia ........... Goodbye
Jedlo ................... Food
Priateľ ................. Friend
Jadrová hlavica ... Nuclear warhead

And this is quite similar to Polish:
Hej - Hello
Dzień dobry - Good day
Do widzenia - Goodbye
Jadło / Jedzenie - Food
Przyjaciel - Friend
Głowica jądrowa - Nuclear warhead

Apart from that we have also
Dziękuję - Thank you
Przepraszam - I'm sorry

Uwielbiam Poets of the Fall - I love Poets of the Fall

Cheers then

tisovcik_rasto · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 16:24

sorrow wrote:

Apart from that we have also
Dziękuję - Thank you
Przepraszam - I'm sorry

Uwielbiam Poets of the Fall - I love Poets of the Fall

the others in slovak are:
Ďakujem - Thank you
Prepáčte - I'm sorry

Milujem Poets of the Fall - I love Poets of the Fall

Alev · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 16:24

Cool, a great idea!

Here are a few words from Turkish:

Hello: Merhaba
Goodbye: Hoşçakal (the one that's leaving says it), Güle güle (the other one says it)
Thank you: Teşekkür ederim
Thanks! : Teşekkürler!
I'm sorry: Özür dilerim
Get out!: Defol!
Shut up: Kes sesini
How are you?: Nasılsın?
What's up?: N'aber?
Have a good day: İyi günler
I love you: Seni seviyorum
Take care: Kendine iyi bak

Metalink187 · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 16:52

Great idea ! I can tell some words in French :
Hello : Bonjour
I : Je
Thanks/Thank you : Merci
I'm sorry : Je suis désolé
Goodbye/Bye : Au revoir / à plus ! (familiar formulation)
How are you ? : Comment vas-tu ?
I love you : Je t'aime
Have a nice day : Passe une bonne journée
Friend : Ami
Dream : Rêve
Food : Nourriture

If you need any other word, tell it to me by PM. :wink:

Gogolina · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 20:46

i like this topic it's really fun & usefull 2...i'll add stuff too

Arabic & Italian...
Flower : warda : fiore
Sky : Sama : Cielo
Moon : Amar : Luna
Water : Maya : Acqua
Beautiful : Gameel : Bello
Earth : Ard : Terra
Mountain : Gabal : Montagna
Hill : Tal : Collina
Dream : Helm : Sogno
NATURE : TABEEA : NATURA

Daughter of Arwen · **Posted:** 24 May 2008, 22:46

Yeah, nice topic, I wonder if I could pronounce all these languages. I didn't see any Romanian so I though I'd add some random words

hello=salut
goodbye=la revedere
love=dragoste/iubire
soul=suflet
forest=pădure
light=lumină
moon=lună

Gogolina · **Posted:** 25 May 2008, 00:56

can some1 tell me what this turkish word means?

*Estarabim*

Marvin · **Posted:** 25 May 2008, 01:16

I can pronounce a few of those words... finnish, polish and french mostly. I think I can even pronounce the welsh lines :lol:

Anyways, a bit of German for you:

Hallo - hello
Auf Wiedersehen - goodbye
Tschüß - bye
Kralle - claw
Gesicht - face
Liebe - love [noun]
Danke - thanks
Ich heiße ... - my name is ...
Herbst - fall [season]
Dichter / Poet(en) - poet(s)

well... yeah, that's it for now. Spelling is a bit hard to describe in english, but if you want me to, I'll try... just not tonight

DreamerM · **Posted:** 25 May 2008, 21:50

everyone thank Dandelion! She's a big reason why this thread exists.

Yay for her!

Beldrion · **Posted:** 25 May 2008, 22:01

DreamerM wrote:

nukka: sleep

nukka: lint, fluff
nukkua: sleep

Alev · **Posted:** 25 May 2008, 22:19

Gogolina wrote:

can some1 tell me what this turkish word means?

*Estarabim*

There is no such a word as far as I know. :shock:

Could it be "Estar abim"? Because that would mean "my brother Estar"... But then there isn't a name such as that but... :lol:

night_lia · **Posted:** 25 May 2008, 23:07

Mmm... Some Russian words:
Zdravstvuite/Privet - Здравствуйте/Привет - hello/hi
Do Svidania/Poka - До свидания/Пока - goodbye/bye
Menia zovut... - Меня зовут... - My name is...
Osen' - Осень - fall/autumn
Poet - Поэт - Poet (stress the bold letter)

Tonka · **Posted:** 25 May 2008, 23:43

sorrow wrote:

Kuborion wrote:

Great idea indeed.
Lemme share something from our Slovak language:

Ahoj ................... Hello
Dobrý deň .......... Good day
Dovidenia ........... Goodbye
Jedlo ................... Food
Priateľ ................. Friend
Jadrová hlavica ... Nuclear warhead

And this is quite similar to Polish:
Hej - Hello
Dzień dobry - Good day
Do widzenia - Goodbye
Jadło / Jedzenie - Food
Przyjaciel - Friend
Głowica jądrowa - Nuclear warhead

This is also similar to Croatian:
Hej/Bok - Hello
Dobar dan - Good day
Doviđenja - Goodbye
Jelo/Hrana - Food
Prijatelj - Friend

And aslo these are very handy:
Pivo - Beer
Nazdravlje - Cheers
Hvala - Thank you
Ja sam... - I am...

Pjesnik - Poet
Ljubav - Love

Volim Poets of the Fall - I love Poets of the Fall

night_lia · **Posted:** 26 May 2008, 10:21

Before PoTF concert in Moscow in August 2007 some of the fans had a chance to talk to Marko so he told them he knew this words:
Spasibo - Спасибо - Thank you
Koshka - Кошка - Cat
Sobaka - Собака - Dog ('Shabaka is a kind of a dog' (c)Marko

)

LastDropFalls · **Joined:** 11 Mar 2008, 04:52 **Posts:** 792

Bulgarian - similar to Russian, Czech, Polish, Croatian etc., etc.... slavonic languages.

Hello/Hi: Здравей/здрасти; (read: Zdravei/Zdrasti)

Goodbye/Bye: Довиждане (formal)/Чао (informal); (read: Dovizhdane/Chao)

My name is ... : Името ми е .../Казвам се ...; (read: Imeto mi e .../Kazvam se ...)

I'm ... years old: На ... години съм; (read: Na ... godini sam)

I would like a beer/slivovitza (for those who don't know what it is, it's a typical spirit drink, very strong...): Бих искал (for a boy)/искала (for a girl) една бира/ракия; (read: Bih iskal/iskala edna bira/rakia)

Beer: бира; (read: bira)

Wine: вино; (read: vino)

Thank you: Благодаря/Мерси; (read: Blagodaria/Merci (as in French))

I'm sorry: Съжалявам/Извинявам се; (read: Sazhaliavam/Izviniavam se)

I love you: Обичам те; (read: Obicham te)

I know it's some stupid phrases, but anyway... just to share. ^^

mczolly · **Posted:** 26 May 2008, 16:54

Well, Hungarian-lesson!:) Very strange language, grammar is just like finnish:)

hello: szia (or helló)
Good morning: Jó reggelt!
Good Night: Jó éjszakát!
Thank you: Köszönöm (szépen)
Love: Szerelem
I love you: Szeretlek

Gogolina · **Posted:** 26 May 2008, 18:56

Alev wrote:

Gogolina wrote:

can some1 tell me what this turkish word means?

*Estarabim*

There is no such a word as far as I know. :shock:

Could it be "Estar abim"? Because that would mean "my brother Estar"... But then there isn't a name such as that but... :lol:

well i duno .. i got that word from a turkish cover song by Orphaned Land called Estarabim & it's original by Erin Koray...so maybe it's not a turkish word after all???

Alev · **Posted:** 26 May 2008, 20:09

Gogolina wrote:

Alev wrote:

Gogolina wrote:

can some1 tell me what this turkish word means?

*Estarabim*

There is no such a word as far as I know. :shock:

Could it be "Estar abim"? Because that would mean "my brother Estar"... But then there isn't a name such as that but... :lol:

well i duno .. i got that word from a turkish cover song by Orphaned Land called Estarabim & it's original by Erin Koray...so maybe it's not a turkish word after all???

Probably a nick name, doesn't mean anything.

Gogolina · **Posted:** 28 May 2008, 00:31

Alev wrote:

Gogolina wrote:

Alev wrote:

Gogolina wrote:

can some1 tell me what this turkish word means?

*Estarabim*

There is no such a word as far as I know. :shock:

Could it be "Estar abim"? Because that would mean "my brother Estar"... But then there isn't a name such as that but... :lol:

well i duno .. i got that word from a turkish cover song by Orphaned Land called Estarabim & it's original by Erin Koray...so maybe it's not a turkish word after all???

Probably a nick name, doesn't mean anything.

yeah seems like it

tanuja · **Posted:** 02 Jun 2008, 16:37

hey some of the Persian words are similar in hindi, here in India...
like .. ketab for book
chub - shut up..

and nukka in finnish sounds such a nice word for sleep...
especially when one pronounces it

over_maybe · **Posted:** 02 Jun 2008, 17:16

If you look better you'll notice that 'chub' is not persian

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