Thursday Thirteen XVIII: “Happy New Year!”
T H U R S D A Y T H I R T E E N
Learn to Say “Happy New Year”
in 13 Different Languages!!
Macedonian
“Srekna Nova Godina”
Italian
“Buon Capo d’Anno”
Portuguese
“Feliz Ano Novo”
French
“Bonne Année”
Gaelic
“Aith-bhliain Fe Nhaise Dhuit”
German
“Gutes Neues Jahr”
Japanese
“Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu”
Norwegian
“Godt Nyttår”
Chinese (Mandarin)
“Xin Nian Yu Kuai”
Romanian
“La Multi Ani”
Turkish
“Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun”
Hebrew
“Shanah Tovah”
Indonesian
“Selamat Tahun Baru“
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January 3rd, 2008 at 8:03 am
i only knew the hebrew one…i’m jewish. we have the jewish new year earlier in the year…sometimes it falls in sept, sometimes early oct. but, shana tova is what we say to each other on rosh hashana!
xoxo
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:32 am
Whoa… can’t believe you have Indonesian on the list! A spelling mistake tho’, it is actually Selamat Tahun Baru :)
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:35 am
Coco, I will edit it, respectfully!
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
Nice list! Happy New Year!
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:52 am
Great post. Those are awesome.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
Yikes, and I can barely handle english this morning. Happy New Year!
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Great idea, looked a lot like gibberish, but hey I speak that language well. Thanks for popping in already :)
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Bonne Année, Mishelle!
Thanks for visiting :-)
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Happy New Year. Thanks for stopping by. Happy TT.
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I’ll give you 10 bucks if you can pronounce them all! :0
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
What a fun TT. Thanks for sharing Mishelle.
Happy TT
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
That’s cool :)
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
SPANISH
¡Prospero Año Nuevo!
(have a prosperous new year)
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! That’s Welsh for Happy New Year. Great list - I hardly knew any of those. Happy TT!
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Wow….I didn’t know any of those….maybe I should add another language to my list of resolutions. *sigh* so much to do in ‘08!
Happy TT !
January 4th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Happy New Year 13 times over to you!
January 4th, 2008 at 12:06 am
so I tried some of these out loud. ha. it was fun.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:07 am
Another one for you to add to the list would be Afrikaans, “Gelukkige Nuwe Jaar”
Happy new year! All the best for 2008
January 4th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Hi there,
Don’t forget the Dutch one: “Gelukkig nieuw jaar”
Greetings from the Netherlands :)