Useful foreign phrases

A collection of phrases in many different languages with sound files for some of them.

Greetings and small talk

Welcome
Hello
Good morning
Good afternoon
Good evening
Good night
Goodbye
How are you?
Long time no see

What's your name?
Where are you from?
Pleased to meet you
Good luck
Cheers/Good health
Bon appetit
Bon voyage
Excuse me

Sorry
How much is this?
Thank you
Where's the toilet?
Have a nice day
Get well soon
Would you like to dance?
I love you

Phrases in individual languages

Afrikaans
Albanian
Aleut
Amharic
Arabic (Egyptian)
Arabic (Modern Standard)
Armenian
Azeribaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bhojpuri
Bosnian
Breton
Bulgarian
Cantonese
Catalan
Cebuano
Chabacano
Chamorro
Chechen
Chinese (Mandarin)
Cornish
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Esperanto
Estonian
Faroese
Farsi (Persian)
Fijian
Finnish
French
Friulian
Galician
Georgian
German

Greek
Greenlandic
Hakka
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Ilocano
Indonesian
Inuktitut
Iñupiaq
Irish (Gaelic)
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Jenesch
Jèrriais
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish
Lakota
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lingua Franca Nova
Lithuanian
Low Saxon
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malay
Maltese
Mandarin
Manx
Māori
Mongolian
Nepali

Norwegian
Occitan
Okinawan
Persian (Farsi)
Polish
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese (European)
Romanian
Russian
Scots
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Sesotho
Shanghainese
Shona
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Taiwanese
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Tsotsil
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Venetian
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu

If you'd like to make any corrections or additions, or can provide audio recordings of any of these phrases, please contact me at:

Can you help fill in the gaps in the following pages?
Burmese, Ewe, Gujarati, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Pashto, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhala

Can you provide phrases in other languages? You might find this template (Excel) helpful.

People who have contributed to this section

Buy phrasebooks from: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr

Links

Other collections of phrases in various languages
http://www.smartphrase.com
http://www.single-serving.com
http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/dlc/df/useful.html
http://www.travelphrases.info/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_phrases_in_different_languages
http://wikitravel.org/en/Phrasebook
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/
http://www.smartphrase.com
http://www.loecsen.com
http://www.linguanaut.com
http://www.languageshome.com
http://www.foreignlanguagephrases.com
http://www.lingo24.com/useful-phrases.html
http://worldphrasebook.net
http://smallmarble.org/

They Thought You Would Say This: Unlikely phrases from real phrasebooks
http://www.zompist.com/thought.html

Emergency multilingual phrasebook in 36 languages produced by the British Red Cross
http://www.dh.gov.uk/

Silent Night in numerous languages (includes audio for some languages)
http://silentnight.web.za/translate/

Names of days and months in many languages
http://www.domesticat.net/misc/monthsdays.php

Der Kleine Prinz in 100 Sprachen - extracts from The Little Prince in 100 languages (includes audio): http://www2.germanistik.uni-halle.de/prinz/karten/

Mama Lisa's World - a collection of children's songs from around the world in their original languages with English translations.Some songs include musical recordings and sheet music: http://www.mamalisa.com/world/

How to say "Oh my god! There's an axe in my head" in various languages
http://www.yamara.com/axe/

The Phrase Finder - the meanings and origins of many English sayings, phrases and idioms
http://www.phrases.org.uk

Other multilingual pages:

Language names | Country names | UDHR | Babel | Numerals | Omniglot | Phrases

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