Ok, Lemmy, let’s another play a game!

And I honestly think this one’s more important.

Post how many languages in which you can say Please and Thank You, including your native language. If you can, please provide which languages and how to phonetically say them so the rest of us can learn!

I spent a fair amount of bopping around Europe in the early Aughts and as a native English speaker, I found everyone appreciating my bad mangled attempts at politeness.

  • ThePancakeExperiment@feddit.org
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    24 hours ago

    I know some, I guess, hope I do not butcher them:

    German(native): Bitte/ Danke (sehr) or Vielen Dank,

    English: please/ thank you (very much),

    Japanese: どうぞ or おねがいします or ください/ (ども)ありがとう(ございます) (Which is douzo (when you offer someone something, I think, onegaishimasu/kudasai (if you want something or someone to do something, which is following the request.)/ (domo)arigatou(gozaimasu),

    Norwegian: vær så snill / (tusen) takk,
    (Which is like “Sei so gut/lieb”/ “Tausend Dank” in German.),

    Romanian: vă rog or te rog (formal/informal)/ mulțumesc ((foarte) mult) or mersi (mult) (ă is a short a, I guess and ț is like the ts from “its”, or a German z)

    French: s’il vous plait (that one I had to look up on how to write)/ merci

    Polish: proszę (bardzo)/ dzięki or dziękuję (bardzo) (Like proshe/ djenki/djenkuje)(ę is nasalized)

    Portuguese: faz favor or por favor/ obrigado or obrigada (male/female) (o is spoken like an u) (I do not know much Portuguese (like French and Polish), in my book (European Portuguese faz favor and por favor are used, but I do not know the differences.)

  • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Please and thank you

    S’il vous plait et merci

    And in ASL but that dont translate to text too well.

  • Bieren@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago
    1. Merican. Gods language and the best language. You know I speak better Merican that anyone ever did. The best. Everyone says it. One time I was talking to Elon. I call him fuck boy the cum dumpster. No one treats me like he does. But, he was telling me you speak the best Merican. No one can talk as good as you do. Everyone says it. Maybe I should write a book about how good my English is. It would be the most huge book ever.

    /s

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    i can say thank you in more languages than i can say please in.

    perhaps that says something about me

    Obligado

    Dankeschön

    Merci Beaucop

    Thank you

    Gracias

    Domo Arigato (only in latin type, i have no chance of reading/spelling anything in Kanji)

  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I can only speak three but I really used to try to learn some others but suck at it. I praise people who can learn grammatically challenging languages

    • showmeyourkizinti@startrek.websiteOP
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      1 day ago

      I’ve found that most people really appreciate even just the attempt at their own language. The fact that you’re trying goes a long way with most people.

      Excepting Americans and sometimes the French. /s

      • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
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        1 day ago

        I fully agree! Paraphrasing the Nelson Mandela quote that got me into college and grad school “if you speak to a man in a language he understands it goes to his head, but if you speak to a man in his language it goes to his heart.”

        Idk I feel my partners English is received well by Americans but yes French and Parisians are something else

        • showmeyourkizinti@startrek.websiteOP
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          1 day ago

          I actually really like most Parisians the only people in France I found to be rude were those who worked in the tourist areas like the Riviera. But honestly I can’t blame them tourists can be so annoying

  • stelelor@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    In the order I learned them:

    • 🇷🇴 Romanian: Vă rog / Mulțumesc (native)

    • 🇨🇵 French: S’il-vous-plaît / Merci

    • 🇬🇧 English: Please / Thank you

    • 🇪🇦 Spanish: Por favor / Gracias

    • 🇯🇵 Japanese: Onegai / Arigato

    • 🇨🇳 Mandarin: Qing / Xiè xie

    • 🇮🇹 Italian: Per favore / Grazie

    • 🇩🇪 German: Bitte / Danke

    • 🇷🇺 Russian: Pozhalusta / Spasiba

  • josteinsn@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Define language… Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, English, French, German, BHS (Bosnian Croatian, Serbian), Esperanto, Czech, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish… i think that’s it.

  • RandomVideos@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Please and thank you

    Te rog si multumesc

    Bitte und danke

    I dont know how to explain how to say a word to someone if they dont speak romanian

  • randombullet@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Mostly thanks because that’s the only word I learned when I’m visiting.

    obrigado, obrigada - Portuguese Bitte/Danke - Deutsch dack - Dutch Gratzi - Italian Por favor/Gracias - Spanish Takk - norge Merci - French 不好意思。/ 謝謝 - Chinese ありがとう - Japanese Oi cunt / thank ye cunt

    • Luc@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      dack - Dutch

      Dutch is alsjeblieft (informal), alstublieft (formal), thanks (informal), dankjewel (informal), or dankuwel (formal). The former probably means “as you desired” in old Dutch, the latter “thank you well”, and the formal/informal variants simply insert the right word for “you” (je or u). And then there’s thanks being commonly used. Or also bedankt, sounds kinda formal to me as well, not sure when you’d use that instead of dankuwel

      Just “dank” (maybe you wrote that and autocorrupt kicked in?) is not really a thing we say, it just means “thank” which you’d also not say by itself in English (unless you’re Rocky)

      Edit: writing “dank” in an English sentence feels like everyone will think our thank-yous are like dank memes. The pronunciation of the “a” there is as in Clark; the English pronunciation of dank would map to denk in Dutch and means think!