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Posted by
Hien
(Travel Guru 3906 posts)
12y
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Quoting Wocca
... In Chinese, "nihao" [nee-how] and "zaijian" .... 
BTW, for those who do not know, romanised chinese are phonetics, with some exceptions/differences.
The letter "z" has the sound of "C" (minus the 'h' sound),
"Zh" => "Ch" (a little bit like Jh),
"Q" => "Ch" (think of the word "Qi" in Qi-Gong),
"X" => "Sz",
"B" => "P" (minus the 'h' sound),
"P" => "Ph" (not the 'f' sound but a combination of P and h),
"D" => "T" (minus the 'h' sound),
"T" => "Th" (like Thailand).
Note: The above are the nearest sound I can explain.
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Posted by
Travel100
(Travel Guru 1556 posts)
12y
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Quoting steffbo
how do you pronounce tschuss??
daveh, it's a pity we can't leave audio messages on the side yet. So I try to explain how to put your mouth. What you do it is, you make your lips pointy and form a circle, breath out and you will say the German "Tschüss" (we also have "Umlaut", a letter with two dots on top for ä and ö,but not to get you too confused I will explain that another time
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I always pronounced "Tschuss" like:
CH (like in church) and UICE (like in juice).
Is that right Steff?
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Posted by
steff
(Travel Guru 1162 posts)
12y
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I always pronounced "Tschuss" like:
CH (like in church) and UICE (like in juice).
Is that right Steff?[/quote]
Nice one travel100, that would definetely do the job!
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Posted by
daveh
(Travel Guru 1027 posts)
12y
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thanks, i've learnt something today!!
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Posted by
summer910
(Respected Member 1342 posts)
12y
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Italian:
Hello - ciao, buon giorno (this is more of "good day")
Goodbye - ciao, arrivederci
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Posted by
tway
(Travel Guru 7273 posts)
12y
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Quoting mtlchica
Well, since I have two languages, one not being english...
French: bonjour and au revoir
There's also the flexible "salut!", not to be confused with the less flexible "slut!".
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Posted by
Isadora
(Travel Guru 13926 posts)
12y
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Spanish:
Hola - hello
Adios - good bye
Buenos dias - good day - or the short version - buenos (use before noon)
Buenas tardes - good afternoon - or the short vrsion buena (use after noon)
Buenas noches - good evening/night - again the short version - buena
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Posted by
mim
(Travel Guru 1276 posts)
12y
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Portuguese
Brasil)
Hi=oi!
hello=ola
good day= Bom dia (pronounced bong gia)
And then it's just ciao for bye!
I also know hello is "Tashi delek" in Tibetan it literally means congratulations (for living!!
well thats what I always assumed?!!)
