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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Afroasiatic languages
Amharic ,
Arabic (Egyptian) ,
Arabic (Lebanese) ,
Arabic (Modern Standard) ,
Arabic (Moroccan) ,
Aramaic ,
Assyrian ,
Hausa ,
Hebrew ,
Maltese ,
Somali
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Algonquian languages
Arapaho ,
Atikamekw ,
Cheyenne ,
Cree ,
Míkmaq ,
Ojibwe
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Arawakan languages
Garifuna
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Athabaskan languages
Chipewyan ,
Navajo
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Austroasiatic languages
Khmer ,
Vietnamese
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Austronesian languages
Malay-Polynesian languages
Balinese ,
Banjar ,
Central Dusun ,
Chamorro (Guam dialect) ,
Chamorro (North Marianas dialect) ,
Coastal Kadazan ,
Fijian ,
Iban ,
Indonesian ,
Javanese ,
Malagasy ,
Malay ,
Māori ,
Palauan ,
Tetum ,
Yapese Micronesian languages
Chuukese ,
Kiribati ,
Marshallese ,
Pohnpeian Philippine languages
Aklan ,
Bikol ,
Cebuano ,
Cuyonon ,
Hiligaynon ,
Iloko ,
Tagalog Polynesian languages
Hawaiian ,
Māori ,
Niuean ,
Rapa Nui ,
Samoan ,
Tahitian ,
Tokelauan ,
Tongan ,
Tuvaluan
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Aymaran languages
Aymara
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Caucasian languages
North East Caucasian languages
Batsbi ,
Chechen North West Caucasian languages
Abkhaz ,
Adyghe South Caucasian languages
Georgian ,
Laz
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Chumashan languages
Samala
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Dravidian languages
Kannada ,
Malayalam ,
Tamil ,
Telugu
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Eskimo-Aleut
Aleut ,
Greenlandic ,
Inuktitut ,
Iñupiaq
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Hmong-Mien languages
White Hmong
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Indo-European languages
Albanian languages
Albanian (Gheg) ,
Albanian (Tosk) Armenian languages
Armenian (Eastern) ,
Armenian (Western) Baltic languages
Latvian ,
Lithuanian Celtic languages
Breton ,
Cornish ,
Irish ,
Manx ,
Scottish Gaelic ,
Welsh Germanic languages
Afrikaans ,
Alsatian ,
American Norwegian ,
Bavarian ,
Cimbrian ,
Danish ,
Dutch ,
Elfdalian ,
English (British) ,
Faroese ,
Flemish (West) ,
Frisian (North) ,
Frisian (Saterland) ,
Frisian (West) ,
German ,
Gothic ,
Icelandic ,
Limburgish ,
Low Saxon ,
Luxembourgish ,
Norwegian ,
Old English ,
Scots ,
Stellingwarfs ,
Swedish ,
Swiss German (Basel dialect) ,
Swiss German (Chur dialect) ,
Swiss German (Lucerne dialect) ,
Värmlandic ,
Westrobothnian ,
Yiddish Hellenic languages
Greek (Modern) ,
Greek (Ancient) Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Aryan languagesAssamese ,
Bengali ,
Bhojpuri ,
Garhwali ,
Gujarati ,
Hindi ,
Kashmiri ,
Magahi ,
Maithili ,
Maldivian ,
Marathi ,
Nepali ,
Odia (Oriya) ,
Punjabi ,
Romani ,
Sanskrit ,
Sindhi ,
Sinhala ,
Urdu Dari ,
Kurdish (Kurmanji) ,
Kurdish (Sorani) ,
Mazandarani ,
Ossetian ,
Pashto ,
Persian (Farsi) ,
Tajik ,
Zazaki
Romance languages
Aragonese ,
Aromanian ,
Asturian ,
Catalan ,
Corsican ,
Extremaduran ,
French ,
Friulian ,
Galician ,
Gascon ,
Italian ,
Jèrriais ,
Ladino ,
Latin ,
Occitan ,
Monégasque ,
Portuguese (Brazlian) ,
Portuguese (European) ,
Romanian ,
Romansh ,
Sardinian ,
Sicilian ,
Spanish ,
Venetian ,
Walloon Slavic languages
Belarusian ,
Bosnian ,
Bulgarian ,
Croatian ,
Czech ,
Kashubian ,
Macedonian ,
Old Russian ,
Polish ,
Russian ,
Rusyn ,
Serbian ,
Slovak ,
Slovenian ,
Sorbian (Lower) ,
Sorbian (Upper) ,
Ukrainian
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Iroquoian languages
Cherokee
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Koreanic languages
Korean
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Japonic / Japanese-Ryukyuan languages
Japanese ,
Okinawan
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Khoisan languages
Khoekhoe (Nama)
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Mande languages
Bambara
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Mayan languages
Mam ,
Tsotsil ,
Yucatec Maya
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Mongolic languages
Kalmyk ,
Mongolian
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Muskogean languages
Choctaw ,
Creek
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Niger-Congo languages
Bemba ,
Chichewa ,
Efik ,
Ewe ,
Fula ,
Herero ,
Igbo ,
Kikuyu ,
Kinyarwanda ,
Lingala ,
Lozi ,
Luganda ,
Mossi ,
Ndebele (Northern - South Africa) ,
Ndebele (Northern - Zimbabwe) ,
Ndebele (Southern)
Nkore ,
Northern Sotho ,
Sesotho ,
Shona ,
Swahili ,
Swazi ,
Tsonga ,
Tswana ,
Tumbuka ,
Twi ,
Umbundu ,
Venda ,
Wolof ,
Xhosa ,
Yorùbá ,
Zulu
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Nilo-Saharan languages
Acholi ,
Dholuo
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Pama-Nyungan languages
Yolngu
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Sino-Tibetan languages
Sinitic languages
Cantonese ,
Hakka ,
Mandarin ,
Shanghainese ,
Taiwanese ,
Teochew Tibeto-Burman languages
Burmese ,
Dzongkha ,
Manipuri ,
Newari / Nepal Bhasa ,
Tibetan
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Siouan languages
Crow ,
Lakota Sioux ,
Omaha
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Tai-Kadai languages
Lao ,
Thai
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Tungusic languages
Ulch
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Tupí-Guaraní languages
Guaraní
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Turkic languages
Altay ,
Azerbaijani ,
Bashkir ,
Chuvash ,
Kazakh ,
Kumyk ,
Kyrgyz ,
Nogai ,
Sakha ,
Tatar ,
Turkish ,
Turkmen ,
Uyghur ,
Uzbek
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Uralic languages
Finnic languages
Estonian ,
Finnish ,
Veps ,
Võro Mordvinic languages
Erzya ,
Moksha Sami languages
Lule Sámi ,
Northern Sámi ,
Southern Sámi
Ugaric languages
Hungarian
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Uto-Aztecan languages
Comanche ,
Nahuatl ,
Serrano
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Isolates
Adaizan ,
Basque
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Pidgins and Creoles
Bislama ,
Cape Verdean Creole ,
Chabacano de Zamboanga ,
Chabacano de Cavite ,
Haitian Creole ,
Jamaican ,
Mauritian Creole ,
Papiamento ,
Réunion Creole ,
Sango ,
Tok Pisin
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Constructed languages
Esperanto ,
Ido ,
Interlingua ,
Ishirkian ,
Kala ,
Klingon ,
Laala ,
Lingua Franca Nova ,
Lojban ,
Pig Latin ,
Quenya ,
Romániço ,
Solresol ,
Talossan ,
Toki Pona ,
Volapük ,
Wightian
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Other collections of phrases in various languageshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix/ http://www.smartphrase.com http://www.single-serving.com http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/dlc/df/useful.html http://www.travelphrases.info/ 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/knowledge/useful-phrases/ http://worldphrasebook.net http://smallmarble.org/
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