Ok, Lemmy, let’s another play a game!
And I honestly think this one’s more important.
Post how many languages in which you can say Please and Thank You, including your native language. If you can, please provide which languages and how to phonetically say them so the rest of us can learn!
I spent a fair amount of bopping around Europe in the early Aughts and as a native English speaker, I found everyone appreciating my bad mangled attempts at politeness.
S’il vous plaît / Merci in French.
Snälla / Tack in Swedish (I guess, not sure which word is best translation). Norwegian is something like var så snill / takk I think.
Onegai / Arigatō in Japanese. (Or kudasai as someone mentioned)
请 (qǐng) / 谢谢 (xièxie) in Chinese.
Had to check Polish spelling but proszę / dziękuję I think. Not 100% sure about proszę as I think that’s also used when giving someone something, kinda like “here you go”? On a better day I would’ve probably remembered bitte/danke for German too. :-(