Useful foreign phrases

A collection of useful phrases suitable for a variety of situations in many different languages with sound files for quite a few of them.

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Index of phrases by language

- Abkhaz,
- Adyghe,
- Afrikaans,
- Aklan,
- Albanian (Gheg),
- Albanian (Tosk),
- Aleut,
- Alsatian,
- Amharic,
- Arabic (Egyptian),
- Arabic (Lebanese),
- Arabic (Modern Standard),
- Arabic (Moroccan),
- Aragonese,
- Armenian (Eastern),
- Aromanian,
- Armenian (Western),
- Assamese,
- Assyrian,
- Asturian,
- Atikamekw,
- Azerbaijani
- Banjar,
- Bashkir,
- Basque,
- Bavarian,
- Belarusian,
- Bengali,
- Bhojpuri,
- Bosnian,
- Breton,
- Bulgarian,
- Burmese
- Cape Verdean Creole,
- Catalan,
- Cebuano,
- Chabacano de Cavite,
- Chabacano de Zamboanga,
- Chamorro (Guam dialect),
- Chamorro (North Marianas dialect),
- Chechen,
- Cherokee,
- Chinese (Cantonese),
- Chinese (Hakka),
- Chinese (Mandarin),
- Chinese (Shanghainese),
- Chinese (Taiwanese),
- Chipewyan,
- Cimbrian,
- Cornish,
- Corsican,
- Croatian,
- Cuyonon,
- Czech
- Danish,
- Dutch
- Efik,
- Elfdalian,
- English (British),
- Estonian,
- Ewe,
- Extremaduran
- Faroese,
- Fijian,
- Finnish,
- Flemish (West),
- French,
- Frisian (North),
- Frisian (West)
- Friulian,
- Galician,
- Gascon,
- Georgian,
- German,
- Gothic,
- Greek (Modern),
- Greek (Ancient),
- Greenlandic,
- Guaraní,
- Gujarati
- Haitian Creole,
- Hausa,
- Hawaiian,
- Hebrew,
- Hindi,
- Hmong (White),
- Hungarian
- Iban,
- Icelandic,
- Igbo,
- Ilocano,
- Indonesian,
- Inuktitut,
- Iñupiaq,
- Irish (Gaelic),
- Italian
- Japanese,
- Javanese,
- Jenesch,
- Jèrriais
- Kalmyk,
- Kannada,
- Kashmiri,
- Kazakh,
- Khmer,
- Khoekhoe (Nama),
- Kinyarwanda,
- Kiribati,
- Korean,
- Kurdish (Kurmanji),
- Kurdish (Sorani),
- Kyrgyz
- Lakota (Sioux),
- Lao,
- Latin,
- Latvian,
- Limburgish,
- Lithuanian,
- Low Saxon,
- Lozi,
- Luxembourgish
- Macedonian,
- Malagasy,
- Malay,
- Malayalam,
- Maldivian,
- Maltese,
- Mam,
- Manipuri,
- Manx,
- Māori,
- Marathi,
- Mauritian Creole
- Mongolian
- Nahuatl,
- Navajo,
- Ndebele (Northern),
- Nepali,
- Newari / Nepal Bhasa,
- Nogai,
- Northern Sotho,
- Norwegian
- Occitan,
- Odia (Oriya),
- Ojibwe,
- Okinawan,
- Old English,
- Old Russian
- Papiamento,
- Pashto,
- Persian (Farsi),
- Polish,
- Portuguese (Brazilian),
- Portuguese (European),
- Punjabi
- Quechua
- Romani,
- Romanian,
- Romansh,
- Russian,
- Rusyn
- Sakha,
- Sámi (Lule),
- Sámi (Northern),
- Sámi (Southern),
- Samoan,
- Sanskrit,
- Sardinian,
- Scots,
- Scottish Gaelic,
- Serbian,
- Sesotho,
- Shona,
- Sicilian,
- Sinhala,
- Slovak,
- Slovenian,
- Somali,
- Sorbian (Lower),
- Sorbian (Upper),
- Spanish,
- Stellingwarfs,
- Sundanese,
- Swahili,
- Swedish,
- Swiss German (Basel dialect),
- Swiss German (Chur dialect),
- Swiss German (Lucerne dialect)
- Tagalog,
- Tahitian,
- Tamil,
- Tatar,
- Telugu,
- Tetum,
- Thai,
- Tibetan,
- Tigrinya,
- Tok Pisin,
- Tongan,
- Tsez,
- Tsonga,
- Tsotsil,
- Tswana,
- Tumbuka,
- Turkish,
- Tuvaluan
- Ukrainian,
- Umbundu,
- Urdu,
- Uyghur,
- Uzbek
- Venetian,
- Vietnamese,
- Võro
- Welsh,
- Wolof
- Xhosa
- Yapese,
- Yiddish,
- Yolngu,
- Yoruba,
- Yucatec Maya
- Zazaki,
- Zulu

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