Useful foreign phrases |
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Useful foreign phrases |
Individual languages |
Colours |
Numbers |
Idioms |
Tongue twisters |
Proverbs
A collection of useful phrases suitable for a variety of situations in many different languages with sound files for quite a few of them.
Phrases in individual languages
Welcome | Hello | Good morning | Good afternoon | Good evening | Good night | How are you? | Long time no see | Please | Thank you | Excuse me | Sorry | Goodbye | Bon voyage |
Pleased to meet you | What's your name? | Where are you from? |
I (don't) understand | Please say that again | Please speak more slowly | Please write it down | Do you speak English? | Do you speak ...? | How do you say ...? | I don't know |
Go away! | Leave me alone! | Help! Fire! Stop! | Call the police! |
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year | Happy Easter | Happy Birthday |
Good luck | Cheers! | Bon appetit | Would you like to dance? | How much is this? | Have a nice day | Where's the toilet? | Get well soon | I love you | I miss you |
My hovercraft is full of eels | One language is never enough | Stop the world, I want to get off! | This gentleman/lady will pay for everything | Say cheese! |
Telling the time | Days of the week | Months of the year | Seasons |
It's all Greek to me | It's raining cats and dogs | As easy as falling off a log | A sandwich short of a picnic | When pigs fly | Out of sight, out of mind | It's a small world
Idioms in: Czech | French | Russian | Slovak
Proverbs in: Indonesian | Kazakh | Manx | Language-related proverbs |
Entrance / Exit | No smoking | Open / Closed | Toilet signs (Gents / Ladies) |
Phrases in individual languages
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Other collections of phrases in various languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix/
http://www.smartphrase.com
http://www.single-serving.com
http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/dlc/df/useful.html
http://www.travelphrases.info/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_phrases_in_different_languages
http://wikitravel.org/en/Phrasebook
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/
http://www.smartphrase.com
http://www.loecsen.com
http://www.linguanaut.com
http://www.languageshome.com
http://www.foreignlanguagephrases.com
http://www.lingo24.com/useful-phrases.html
http://worldphrasebook.net
http://smallmarble.org/
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