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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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
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Whoa… can’t believe you have Indonesian on the list! A spelling mistake tho’, it is actually Selamat Tahun Baru :)
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Coco, I will edit it, respectfully!
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Nice list! Happy New Year!
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Great post. Those are awesome.
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Yikes, and I can barely handle english this morning. Happy New Year!
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Great idea, looked a lot like gibberish, but hey I speak that language well. Thanks for popping in already :)
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Bonne Année, Mishelle!
Thanks for visiting :-)
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Happy New Year. Thanks for stopping by. Happy TT.
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I’ll give you 10 bucks if you can pronounce them all! :0
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What a fun TT. Thanks for sharing Mishelle.
Happy TT
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That’s cool :)
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SPANISH
¡Prospero Año Nuevo!
(have a prosperous new year)
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Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! That’s Welsh for Happy New Year. Great list – I hardly knew any of those. Happy TT!
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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 !
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Happy New Year 13 times over to you!
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so I tried some of these out loud. ha. it was fun.
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Another one for you to add to the list would be Afrikaans, “Gelukkige Nuwe Jaar”
Happy new year! All the best for 2008
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Hi there,
Don’t forget the Dutch one: “Gelukkig nieuw jaar”
Greetings from the Netherlands :)
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