Hello, good-bye, and thank you.

[kuengb]

No big deal, it's just that "große(r) Gott" means "great god", and even in catholic southern Germany people may wonder about you if you tell them all the time how good god is... :)
Grüssen=to greet
Gross=great, big

 

[The Bob]

No big deal, it's just that "große(r) Gott" means "great god", and even in catholic southern Germany people may wonder about you if you tell them all the time how good god is... :)
Grüssen=to greet
Gross=great, big

Oh rite I get it. Sorry mate.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[devious_]

4.) Arabic: Selam
A'asalaama
Shukran

Just a minor correction... In Arabic, good-bye is Ma'asalama, not A'asalamaa. Ma'asalama means "(depart) with well-being".

Here are a couple of variations to the word:
Wada'an (good-bye)
Elal Liqa' (until we meat again... or simply 'later')

 

[ElectroPhysics]

In Urdu...
Hello: Keya hall hey
Goodbye:Khuda Hafiz
ThankYou:Shukria

 

[balkan]

more mandarin:
Goodbye as in See you later: YìíHòu Jiàn (Yi is a falling then rising tone, hou and jian is a falling tone)
Goodbye as in Godspeed or travel carefully: Màn Zòóu
Good evening: Wàánsháng hàáo (shang is rising)
Good morning: ZàáoChén hàáo
and if you're thanking someone for a service they're supposed to be doing, just say: hàáo

lemme just check that unicode crap for pinyin... that ^ is annoying...

edit: pinyin code lies in &£0300 and up, but how do i display it? alt doesn't work, maybe since it won't accept a starting 0 or something... ?

 

[plus]

Southern Californian:
Hello: Hey dude
goodbye: Later dude
Thanks: Thanks dude

South Californian:

Hola
Adios
gracias

 

[jimmy p]

Turkish: Machamba is hello.. and I did know the others...I'll get back to you on that

 

[Mistress Lilith]

Turkish-
hello- merhaba
goodbye- hoscakal (hosh-cha-kal)
thankyou- tesekkur ederim (te-she-koor-- e-deh-rim)

this is pretty formal though i guess, we don't say that at home, we've just adopted to the "hello" "bye" and "thanks"

 

[jimmy p]

lol, where we went they had this crazy accent that made it sound different to what the phrasebook said. I remember what Thank you is now, but I didnt know goodbye obviously.