Foreign words/phrases you like.

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Wunderbar is a good one

I don't know why but I love the phrase 'c'est difficile' (it's difficult). It seems to be a phrase which covers everything so I use it all the time in my french lessons.

Spaseba and Da Svedanya . (Thank You and Goodbye in Russian)

English is foreign to me you know, and Danish is foreign to most of you, but of words that are neither danish nor english I like:

Video - Latin: To see
Audio - Latin: To hear
Ni hao - Chinese: You good technically, but used in the sense how are you?
Verdamt - German: Damnit
Bambino - Itallian: Child

Apres moi, le deluge-After me, the flood (French)
Katze (German for cat)
Neko (Japanese for cat)
Kissa (Finnish for cat)
Gato/Gatito (Spanish for cat/kitten)

Voila ! !!

Blitzkrieg
Kawaii
Stilyagi (basically Soviet greasers)
had a bunch of stuff like this/.

(*chan stuff)
desu
noko
sage

its "i see" and "i hear".
to see means videre and to hear means audire

Oh right:
Video Audio
Vides Audis
Videt Audit

Videmus Audimus
Videtis Auditis
Vident Audent



Kat is danish fot Cat, Killing is danish for Kitten. (Which I found very strange when I learned what it means in english )

The Arabic greeting salaam alaykum.

Siamkatze-German for Siamese cat
Hund-German for dog
Dachshund-badger dog

Lince (Spanish for "Lynx")

'Yoi Shousa!' - What the Tachikomas say in Ghost in the shell, meaning something like 'affermative Major!' in Japanese.

It's not that foreign, but I do say "aye" quite alot. (Scottish/north England for 'yes' or 'I agree') It's because I talked to a certain northener over MSN alot (I'm in east England), and 'aye' slowly got into my subconscious and then conscious vocabulary. I don't even talk to that person anymore, but I still use it because I'm so used to it now. I've been corrupted!

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In my native language:
Kot syjamski - Siamese cat
Pies - dog
Jamnik - badger dog
Rys (written without a diacritic sign) - lynx


I like the German word wunderkind. In English I like the word virulent.

I like certain phrases in Spanish because they rhyme nicely:


-De colores del los flores en la primavera
-Los ojos rojos
-Paco es flaco y un poco loco
- Yo se, Jose
- Es tu y yo, amigo

I like to speak French. I am in French Immersion and mostly outside of school when I speak French noone understands me. Au Revoir.




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(My signature in french)

some of my favourite foreign phrases are anagrams (they read he same backwards and forwards) from Argentine writer Cortazar and Guatemalan writer Monterroso:

Salta Lenin el atlas
Amigo, no gima
Atale, demoniaco Cain, o me delata
Adela, Dioniso, no tal Platon, o si no, id a Leda
Si no da amor alas, sal a Roma, Adonis