Can you name the greeting words in different languages?

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Language Basics Quiz

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Published: August 4th, 2008
Category: Language
Plays: 87,259

Tags: basic, Language Basics

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	uinfuirudo:	Aug 25th, 2008 at 06:10 GMT	18 points
	There is a slight problem with the Japanese, mainly that there are 3 or more ways to say all of the basics.

	SixNapoleons:	Sep 2nd, 2008 at 13:53 GMT	49 points
	Why does it say "Deutsch" when it doesn't say "Español", for example?

	Fawkes:	Oct 31st, 2008 at 18:11 GMT	15 points
	Not very consistent, is it?

	Bethannie:	Nov 4th, 2008 at 18:49 GMT	25 points
	Not very impressed with this game...the spelling for Russian and Japanese is questionable and there are alternatives for some of the other language options.

	Lulu:	Nov 5th, 2008 at 13:52 GMT	16 points
	Danke schön means thank-you very much, so why isn't there merci beaucoup etc as well?

	Bray:	Nov 5th, 2008 at 20:38 GMT	12 points
	Not too good. I knew 'hello' in Japanese, but most people spell it Konichiwa to my knowledge.

	Librería:	Nov 13th, 2008 at 18:16 GMT	9 points
	It should be "adiós", not adios. Let us not forget the accents. I don't care if the game accepts adios without the accent, but the official answer in the table should include the accent. adiós

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	Syagria:	Dec 3rd, 2008 at 17:39 GMT	5 points
	"Onegai" should be accepted for Japanese as well as "kudasai."

	Lenard:	Dec 24th, 2008 at 03:52 GMT	5 points
	Yeah, I'd have done a lot better if I could spell.

	ZacharyTaylor:	Jan 10th, 2009 at 03:08 GMT	2 points
	a lot of people should remember arigato. domo arigato, mr. roboto.

	ZacharyTaylor:	Jan 10th, 2009 at 19:54 GMT	2 points
	it accepts ciao

	LAD1992:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 20:48 GMT	-2 points
	yay got 13/24 got all the french & german, and a bit of the italian and japanese I know absolutely no Russian at all :(

	Quartz:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 20:38 GMT	12 points
	I think zdravstvuyte or dobry den should also be correct for Russian hello.

	faeryty:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 14:19 GMT	-1 points
	I can't spell. I especially can't spell things I can write in their native script. Thinking in 5 languages at once (well, six if you count english) is incredily difficult! I got 18, and knew the other six and kicked myself as soon as I saw them

	soluie:	Feb 1st, 2009 at 05:43 GMT	-1 points
	It wouldn't accept a lot of my answers, even though I spelled them correctly. Au revoir especially.

	rockhopperlad:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 22:51 GMT	6 points
	I knew some of the answers in Russian, but had no idea how they were spelled. I knew a couple of the Japanese. The rest were pretty easy, though for consistency's sake, it should say "German" rather than "Deutsch".

	emusonparole:	Feb 14th, 2009 at 03:57 GMT	0 points
	It didn't accept my answers because I don't use their transliteration of "das vidanye" or however you spell it and a couple others.

	Patteroast:	Feb 19th, 2009 at 01:54 GMT	-3 points
	I only got any Russian because of the movie 2010. Only reason.

	ensiform:	Feb 21st, 2009 at 18:29 GMT	14 points
	Too many transliteration troubles. Not a very fun quiz because of that.

	BigThing:	Feb 23rd, 2009 at 15:34 GMT	10 points
	I think "Buenas dias" and "Hasta la vista" should be accepted

	nesan:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 04:33 GMT	4 points
	i think that ohio should also be accepted for hello japanese, and so should jiamatane (at least thats how i spell it) should be accepted for goodbye in japanese because ohio means good morning, and konichiwa means good afternoon, and sayonara is used more for when you really wont see someone for a very very long time if ever, and jiamatane means see ya later.

	cressida:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 20:01 GMT	0 points
	got all the french german spanish and italian, but only got one japanese and struggled to spell the russian ones, despite knowing how to say them.

	Justin Barker:	Mar 25th, 2009 at 14:58 GMT	5 points
	The Russian transliterations are not in the internationally accepted forms for all of the words. Also, there are several ways to say hello and goodbye in Russian depending on formality, etc...

	y2jdilemma:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 GMT	7 points
	The Russian and Japanese parts are not good. Way too many options when changing alphabets.

	LovelyLibra:	Apr 13th, 2009 at 00:39 GMT	3 points
	Overall, a good concept but a little confusing. Different regions of a country speak different dialects. Also, "Tschuss" should be accepted for "goodbye" in German.

	R:	Apr 14th, 2009 at 11:38 GMT	7 points
	I think the Russian and Japanese alphabets should be allowed for those unfamiliar with Sporcle's way of transliterating.

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	moliphino:	Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:06 GMT	9 points
	No, danke schön is "thank you very much". Bitte is "please" or "you're welcome".

	wasmachien:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 23:59 GMT	1 point
	Thanks in Russian is 'spasibo'

	katie6098:	Apr 28th, 2009 at 23:59 GMT	2 points
	i know the french ones, just not how to spell them, same with some of the japanese ones.

	raiuchka:	May 25th, 2009 at 07:06 GMT	7 points
	I realize that Russian transliterations are difficult, because there are several different transliteration systems that are used concurrently and yield different results. But I speak Russian fluently and couldn't get "please" in Russian (пожалуйста) because I couldn't figure out how the heck Sporcle had transliterated it! (For the record, I would transliterate it as "pozhaluista" or "pozhalujsta". "Y" is usually a substitute for ы, not й, except for the end of certain last names like Tolstoy (Толстой), Trotsky (Тротский), and Dostoevsky (Достоевский).

	Rose:	May 31st, 2009 at 23:52 GMT	-1 points
	Konnichi Wa does not mean hello!!! there is no word for hello in Japanese!! Konnichi Wa means good afternoon!!!

	hamster:	Jul 5th, 2009 at 16:55 GMT	0 points
	I like this quiz!

	Diablo11d:	Jul 6th, 2009 at 19:00 GMT	4 points
	the japanese is pretty wrong a (as said above) although those are the exact words, thats not what you would say. hello is dependant on the time of day: ohayo for the morning, konnichiwa for the afternoon, and konbonwa for night. they also rely on formalities. goodbye should be jya matta (until later) while sayonara is like goodbye for a long time. also in romaji, its arigatou with a u.

	Rom:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 22:54 GMT	3 points
	Russian is impossible- even to Russians because of the spellings in English.

	GeoExpert:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 04:58 GMT	-1 points
	I don't understand how I got Kudasi. What were the alternate accepted answers? I was messing with the keyboard with my fingers on random keys and Kudasi popped up. I know I only hit 2-3 keys, some where in the top-right of the keyboard, around p,o,-,[, an =. That was weird. Some one tell me the alternate answers

	orbit:	Jul 28th, 2009 at 11:45 GMT	2 points
	@GeoExpert, you probably entered "dozo" or some version of it. Japanese has many versions of the word Please and "kudasai" is when you want something yourself and "dozo" is when you want the beseeching party to "yes, please do what you want you asked to do". Hope that helps.

	darykjozef:	Aug 4th, 2009 at 16:53 GMT	3 points
	I tried "doozo" and it didn't take, so went with kudasai. And the Russian is freaking horrible. I tried "pozhaluista" three or four ways before it took. Thumbs down.

	LBBrian:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 19:56 GMT	1 point
	I liked this alot. I love games that draw from multiple pools of knowledge (I only got 13 right however, hehe). All across Europe the word "ciao" is a common word for "goodbye".