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Greetings by Language - Click Quiz

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Last updated: April 16, 2024
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First submittedSeptember 20, 2022
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Bonjour, comment allez-vous ?
Hello, how are you doing?
Namaste, aap kaise hain?
Zdravstvuyte, kak dela?
Buongiorno, come stai ?
Guten Tag, wie geht es Ihnen?
Nǐ hǎo ma?
Marhaba. Kayfa haluka?
Goedendag, hoe gaat het met u?
Bom Dia como você está ?
Hujambo. Habari gani?
Selamat Pagi Apa khabar?
Bună ziua, ce mai faceţi?
Halló Hvernig hefurðu það?
Hola, ¿cómo está?
Kon'nichiwa. Genkidesu ka?
Chaírete. Pós eísai?
Annyonghaseyo. Jal jinaego issnayo?
Moikka. Mitä kuuluu?
Aloha. Pehea ʻoe?
Merhaba. Nasılsınız?
Helo sut wyt ti?
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15 Comments
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Level 67
Sep 20, 2022
In Spanish would be:

Hola, ¿cómo estás?

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Level 72
Sep 20, 2022
It depends on the level of proximity with the interlocutor. This difference does not exist in English, but I have chosen the polite "you" here which translates in Spanish as Usted. The verbs with "usted" are conjugated as third person.
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Level 81
Nov 9, 2022
If polite "you" is meant to say formal or unfamiliar "you", then the German should be "Hallo, wie geht es Ihnen?" I don't know Spanish conjugation, but that would be the equivalent of "comment allez-vous", as opposed to "comment vas-tu?" If you go with the familiar, you would also capitalize the pronoun - "wie geht es Dir?"

And to knit pick even more, "Guten Tag" would be a more accurate translation of bonjour and buongiorno (as opposed to salut & ciao).

Nice quiz idea and well designed.

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Level 72
Nov 10, 2022
Thank you for the comment. I really appreciate it because I don't know much about German and especially the difference between formal/familiar "you" in this language.

I have changed the sentence taking into account your advice. Btw, I also changed the Dutch and Russian sentences to more formal versions to be more consistent with the rest of the quiz.

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Level 69
Apr 16, 2024
The Greek sentence is also in the singular (informal) instead of the formal plural (formality works the same way as in French or Russian).
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Level 67
Nov 9, 2022
Can I now say I can speak 20 languages?
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Level 17
Jan 3, 2024
I got the English wrong, I'm that 1% lmao
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Level 76
Apr 16, 2024
Darn, I just learned to say "mambo" or "sasa" but I guess that's too informal
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Level 73
Jun 14, 2024
Good idea and fun to play. Will nominate.

Personally I would leave out either Turkish or Arabic, because for those that don't already no them for certain there is not really a way to distinguish them.

I always find it interesting how I can spot Finnish even if I don't know a single word. (most of the other had at least one recognisable word, or resembling one like buna ziua, never seen that but could "hear" buenos dias and knew Romanian was a romance language. Ofcourse I did not know a Swahili word, but with this list it could be the only match, cause it definitely felt African but if there would have been other African languages I would have been lost. Korean I had no idea, but at one point there are none left ;) )

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Level 59
Jun 28, 2024
There is a way to distinguish - Turkish has slightly different Latin letters to other European languages. It was Swahili and Arabic that was more confusing for me
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Level 34
Jan 23, 2025
The way to distinguish is the "ı" letter Turkish has.
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Level 91
Feb 9, 2025
Some other tips to recognize languages:

Korean uses "j" and "ae" and has words ending in "L" more than other languages.

Welsh uses "y" a lot as a vowel.

Romanian uses "ă" and has "ţ"+vowel in the end of words.

Icelandic uniquely uses "ð" and "þ".

Finnish has a lot of double vowels that rarely occur in other languages like "uu" and "aa", (though Estonian also has some).

Turkish has the "ı" without a top dot and uses "z" in the end of words more than other languages, including Arabic.

And another tip for distinguishing between Arabic and languages influenced by it - literary Arabic doesn't have an "e" sound, so Merhaba and Selamat are not Arabic (while Marhaba and Salamat are).

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Level 81
Oct 18, 2024
Great quiz! The more accurate Greek would be 'Γεια σου, τι κάνεις' or formally 'γεια σας, τι κάνατε'
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Level 49
Nov 22, 2024
Dude just say priviet.
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Level 70
Feb 9, 2025
I mean, здравствуйте is well-used in Russian too.