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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Greetings and small talk
- Welcome,
- Hello,
- Good morning,
- Good afternoon,
- Good evening,
- Good night,
- How are you?,
- Long time no see,
- Please,
- Thank you,
- Excuse me,
- Sorry,
- Yes, No,
- Maybe,
- Goodbye,
- Bon voyage
Getting to know people
Language difficulties
- Do you understand?,
- I understand,
- I don't understand,
- Please say that again,
- Please speak more slowly,
- Please write it down,
- Do you speak English?,
- Do you speak ...?,
- Do you speak a language other than [your own]?,
- Speak to me in ...,
- How do you say ...?,
- I don't know
Difficult situations
Special occasions
Other phrases
- Good luck,
- Cheers!,
- Have a nice day,
- Have a nice weekend,
- Bon appetit,
- How much is this?,
- Would you like to dance?,
- Do you come here often?,
- Where's the toilet?,
- Get well soon,
- I miss you,
- I love you,
- This gentleman/lady will pay for everything,
- One language is never enough
The phrase finder enables you to view the useful phrases in any combination of two languages.
The phrases are available in over 300 different languages.
- Breton,
- Cornish,
- Czech,
- Dutch,
- French,
- German,
- Irish,
- Italian,
- Russian,
- Spanish,
- Welsh
- Afrikaans,
- Albanian,
- Belarusian,
- Bengali,
- Breton,
- Bulgarian,
- Catalan,
- Chinese (Cantonese),
- Chinese (Hakka),
- Chinese (Mandarin),
- Chinese (Taiwanese),
- Cornish,
- Croatian,
- Cuyonon,
- Czech,
- Danish,
- Dutch,
- Esperanto,
- English,
- Estonian,
- Faroese,
- Finnish,
- French,
- Galician,
- German,
- Greek,
- Hawaiian,
- Hindi,
- Hungarian,
- Icelandic,
- Irish,
- Italian,
- Japanese,
- Javanese,
- Kadazandusun,
- Korean,
- Macedonian,
- Malay,
- Manx (Gaelic),
- Māori,
- Navajo,
- Norwegian,
- Occitan,
- Polish,
- Portuguese,
- Romanian,
- Russian,
- Scots,
- Scottish Gaelic,
- Serbian,
- Slovak,
- Slovenian,
- Solresol,
- Spanish,
- Swedish,
- Turkish,
- Tuvaluan,
- Ukrainian,
- Vietnamese,
- Volapük,
- Welsh,
- Xhosa,
- Yiddish,
- Zulu
- Cornish,
- Danish,
- French,
- Icelandic,
- Irish,
- Italian,
- Kadazandusun,
- Polish,
- Russian,
- Scottish Gaelic,
- Welsh
Idioms
- Albanian,
- Arabic,
- Bulgarian,
- Catalan,
- Chinese,
- Croatian,
- Czech,
- Danish,
- Dutch,
- English,
- Esperanto,
- Estonian,
- Finnish,
- French,
- Frisian (West),
- Georgian,
- German,
- Greek,
- Greenlandic,
- Hebrew,
- Hindi,
- Hungarian,
- Icelandic,
- Indonesian,
- Irish (Gaelic),
- Italian,
- Japanese,
- Javanese,
- Korean,
- Latin,
- Latvian,
- Lithuanian,
- Lojban,
- Lombard,
- Maltese,
- Manx (Gaelic),
- Navajo,
- Norwegian,
- Polish,
- Portuguese,
- Romanian,
- Russian,
- Scottish Gaelic,
- Serbian,
- Slovak,
- Slovenian,
- Soutern Sotho,
- Spanish,
- Swahili,
- Swedish,
- Tagalog,
- Thai,
- Turkish,
- Ukrainian,
- Welsh,
- Xhosa
Proverbs in
Names
Cats,
Cockrels,
Cows,
Dogs,
Ducks,
Horses,
Owls
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Links
Other collections of phrases in various languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix/
http://www.smartphrase.com
http://www.travelphrases.info/
http://wikitravel.org/en/Phrasebook
http://users.elite.net/runner/jennifers/
http://www.loecsen.com
http://www.linguanaut.com
http://www.lingo24.com/knowledge/useful-phrases/
http://worldphrasebook.net
http://instantphrases.com
http://www.languagehelpers.com/
http://www.travelphrases.info/
http://www.50languages.com
http://languages.lcweblink.info
http://www.linguahouse.com/phrasebooks
https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/
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