How to Say
Happy New Year
In Many Languages
Chinese (Cantonese)
Gung hay fat choy (a New Year greeting meaning, "May you become prosperous.")
Sun nien fai lok (meaning, "Happy new year")
Chinese (Mandarin)
Xin nian yu kuai
Danish
Godt Nytår
Dutch
Gelukkig nieuwjaar
Farsi
Aide shoma mobarak
French
Bonne année
Gaelic
Aith-bhliain Fe Nhaise Dhuit
German
Gutes Neues Jahr
Greek
Kali chronia
Hawaiian
Hauoli Makahiki Hou
Hebrew
Shanah tovah
Hmong
Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab
Indonesian
elamat Tahun Baru
Italian
Italian
Buon Capo d'Anno
Japanese
Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu
Norwegian
Godt Nyttår
Pilipino (Tagalog)
Maligayang Bagong Taon
Polish
Szczesliwego Nowego roku
Portuguese
Feliz ano novo
Romanian
La Multi Ani
Russian
S Novym Godom
Spanish
Feliz Año Nuevo
Sudanese
Wilujeng Tahun Baru
Swedish
Gott Nytt År
Turkish
Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Welsh
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
I wish you all a wonderfully expectant new year.
4 comments:
Brian, that looks like something you borrowed from your teaching resources. (I used to teach ESL so maybe it's just me...) Happy New Year to you and Joyce and the four kidlets.
Yeh, you're right. I counldn't think of a blessed thing to post today so I had to settle for this.
I'm too involved watching comedy week on CBC to think of anything else.
Great idea! Now I can wish Happy New Year to my foreign friends.
In Arabic, it is "Eid Mubarak!"
Gung hay fat choy
Are you sure that doesn't mean "may you continue to have a healthy appetite"?
Happy New Year's Hilderbrand's...
(My maiden name was Hilderman, so I feel this odd kinship with you guys...)
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