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Bahasa Indonesia

- Halo = Hello

- Hai = Hi

- Woy = Oi (VERY INFORMAL)

- Bagaimana kabarmu? = How are you? (FORMAL)

- Apa kabar? = How are you? (INFORMAL)

- Aku baik-baik saja. = I'm fine.

- Sampai jumpa. / Sampai bertemu kembali. = See you.

- Dadah! = Byebye!

I'm Indonesian and speak Indonesian as well 8-) , so I'm just going to add to this:

  • Selamat pagi = Good morning
  • Selamat siang = Good afternoon
  • Selamat malam = Good evening

Sampai bertemu kembali / Sampai jumpa = formal

Dadah = informal

:):rolleyes::)

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I used to live in the Isle of Man and at school we learned Manx. It's not really spoken as a mother tongue but it always looks good if you know a few phrases :)

Kys t'ou? how are you?

Moghrey mie, good morning

fastyr mie, good afternoon

but if you're talking to friends, you can use "hoi" as "hi!"

gura mie ayd, thank you (informal)

gura mie eu, thank you (formal)

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Russian here happy.gif

привет --> This is like 'hey' or hi' and is pronounced "pri-vet"

Здравствуйте --> This is more formal and is pronounced "zdra-stvuy-te"

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Go buddy!

I am Bulgarian.

Hi - Здрасти

Hello - Здравейте (formal)

Bulgarian, although I live in Oman now :)

Здравей! - 'zdravey' - means 'hello'

Здрасти! - 'zdrasti' - fairly similar, but more informal

К'во стаа? - 'kvo staa' - very informal, slang for 'what's up' :P

Yaay! One more Bulgarian *grins*

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Hungarian, yaay

Szia ! (pronounced: see ya)

10 points for originality!

Kezit csókolom! (kehzit tsow-kow-lom) (meaning: a kiss on the back of your hand)

Yeah, you usually say that to the ladies (+50)

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Someone else already posted in spanish, but I don't care XD

Hola - Hello

Buenos días - Good Morning

Buenas Tardes - Good afternoon

Cómo estás? - How are you?

qué más? - very informal, means "What's up?"

Q'hubo - pronounced like Keeooboh. It is super informal, used with friends and it means something like "What's up"

Chao - Bye

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Well I'm from Sweden so some of it is pretty similar to English, it's basically just

hej - hi

hallå - hello

god dag - good day

trevligt att träffas - nice to meet you

hur mår du?- how are you?

hej då - bye

see not that difficult :D

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I'm French, so here some french, but I am pretty sure that most of you will understand :)

Formal:

Bonjour/ Bonsoir (Hello/ Good evening)

Comment allez-vous? (How are you)

Passez une bonne journée. (Have a good day)

Je vous remercie/ Merci (Thank you)

Casual/ Friendly:

Salut (Hey)

Ca va? (How is it going?)

Salut (Bye)

Teenage slang:

Yo/ Wesh

Tranquille?/ Bien ou bien? (what's up?/ wasaaaa? :P )

A plus (See you)

Cimer (Thanks)

We also have a "special" way of speaking between young people mostly, that we call "verlant". It is basically speaking with words upside down. To speak in "Verlant" you simply separate a word into syllables, reverse them, and put them back together to form a word. Like "Cimer" originally being "Merci". See what we did here ? ;)

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G'day = if you want to be clique Aussie (but hardly anyone actually says that)

Hey = more common

Xin Chao = Hello in Vietnamese- my adopted culture

你好 ni hao =Chinese my A2 language

Bonjour = French from my swiss friend

Anyongseoh = not sure how to spell it but Korean from my korean friend

Ohio =goodmorning in japanese from my japanese friend

Sabadi = Laos from a family holiday. I just like it.

Can you tell I go to an international school? :P

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No one had Finnish yet :D

Moi / Hei = Hi

Hyvää huomenta/päivää/iltaa = Good morning/day/evening (formal)

Or then without the first word: huomenta/päivää/iltaa (slightly more informal)

Moikka / Heippa = Bye (informal)

Hauska/mukava tavata = Nice to meet you (formal)

Mitä kuuluu (formal)/ Miten menee (informal) = How are you?

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Wow, noone's done Dutch yet!

Hoi (hoy) - Hi! Informal greeting.

Hey - Another informal greeting. Similar to hoi.

Hallo - Hello. Works for everyone I guess.

Goede morgen/middag/avond - Good morning/afternoon/evening. This is more formal than anything else really.

Leuk om je te ontmoeten. - Nice to meet you.

Ik heet ... - My name is ...

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