Whether it’s your birthday or the birthday of some one close to you, it’ll always be an occasion that remains the reservoir of happy memories, lots of laughter and wholesome family fun! Birthday is one of those occasions where the strong emotional bonds, warmth of heartfelt best wishes go beyond the barrier of language and sincere and cordial birthday wish always becomes successful in conveying with its true glory.

Other than the usual party, celebrations, good food and sparkling birthday gifts, it is a day when the spotlight shines on friends, relatives, parents and cheerful memories. It is the day when the birthday boy or girl is in his or her most emotionally vulnerable state. Feelings, thoughts previously unspoken, may be in fear of denunciation are expressed on this day as it is the perfect occasion to share feelings and emotions along with best wishes.

When it comes to wishing your loved ones on his or her birthday, originality and uniqueness is the key to make your dear one feel surprised and delighted. It’s hard to put in to words what you want to express to the birthday boy or girl on that special day, but once you tell them how wonderful you feel on their birthday, the expression on their face with bright smile and cheerful look makes the day all the more special. To brighten up the birthday of your loved onesyou may be finding the right word to express your heartfelt best wishes can be a difficult task, so why don’t you go beyond the barrier of language and wish happy birthday in different languages. It’s sure to make your friend, relative or whoever is the birthday boy or girl, feel fascinated and really excited at this unique birthday wish. Even if it is the birthday celebration of a little kid, wishing happy birthday in different languages can be a quite an educating way of wishing someone happy birthday. Kids can learn those languages a little and feel fascinated in exploring more, consequently stirring their learning faculty in an indirect way. Here is a list which will help you to wish “Happy Birthday” in different languages of the world. So next time you are at a birthday party you can share the joy and excitement in different languages. It can be an amusing at the same time a unique learning experience for both of you.

Brazil: Parabéns a você! nesta data querida muitas felicidades e muitos anos de vida.

Chinese-Cantonese: Sun Yat Fai Lok!

Chinese-Mandarin: qu ni sheng er kuai le

Croatian: Sretan Rodendan!

Czech: Vsechno nejlepsi k Tvym narozeninam!!

Danish: Tillykke med fodselsdagen!

Dutch: Hartelijk gefeliciteerd! or Van harte gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag!

Esperanto: Felichan Naskightagon!

Farsi: Tavalodet Mobarak!

Finnish: Hyvaa syntymapaivaa!

French (Canada): Bonne Fete!

French: Joyeux Anniversaire!

German: Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

Greek: Eytyxismena Genethlia! or Chronia Pola!

Hawaiian: Hau`oli la hanau!

Hebrew: Yom Huledet Same’ach!

Hungarian: Boldog szuletesnapot! or Isten eltessen!

Italian: Buon Compleanno!

Japanese: Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu!

Russian: S dniom razhdjenia! or Pazdravliayu s dniom razhdjenia!

Spanish: Feliz Cumpleaños!

Swedish: Grattis på födelsedagen

Taiwanese: San leaz quiet lo!

Thai: Suk San Wan Keut!

Ukrainian: Mnohiya lita! or Z dnem narodjennia!

The world may seem to be shrinking, but in reality, it’s just become more accessible with improved technology, such as the internet and transportation. Weddings are also affected by this global trend, and many couples are choosing to incorporate their heritage into their ceremony.

Are Bilingual Wedding Invitations Necessary?

Although one language is traditional for wedding invitations, in today’s diverse climate, especially when one or both sides of the family might speak a different language, couples are opting to print the wedding invitations in two languages so everyone can enjoy reading the invitation wording.

Bilingual wedding invitations aren’t a necessity, but they can function as a welcoming gesture if many of the guests speak a different language. Bilingual wording can also act as a respectful nod towards a couple’s heritage. If you choose to print bilingual invitations, inform your stationer before you select an invitation style, since typically one language is printed on the front, with the other language on the reverse side.

When to Choose Bilingual Wedding Invitations

The most popular reason to use bilingual wedding invitations is if either the bride or groom (or both) have a different cultural background. For example, if the groom and his family are from Sweden and the bride is American, they might choose to recognize his heritage by printing the invitation in both English and Swedish. This allows both families to be involved and feel included in the ceremony.

Again, if either the bride or groom wants to incorporate certain traditional elements from one or both backgrounds, then bilingual invitations might be used to prepare guests for these elements. For instance, if the bride has an Indian background and chooses to dress in a traditional wedding dress and color, then she might have the invitation printed in both English and Hindi or her native language.

However, having a biological cultural background is not a necessity for bilingual wedding invitations. Some couples have experienced a different culture so completely that they want to incorporate it into their ceremony. Although neither the bride nor the groom has this cultural background, they could choose to print the invitations in both languages and simply explain the significance to guests.

The final reason is simply a hospitable gesture to guests. If a couple has many friends that speak another language, they might choose to incorporate this into their wedding invitations to make these friends more comfortable attending the wedding.

Tips on Translating

Ideally, you can either translate the wedding invitation wording yourself or enlist the help of a close friend or relative who not only speaks the language, but has excellent spelling and grammar. Sometimes a person is conversationally fluent from growing up speaking the language, but never learned to properly read and write it because English was taught and spoken at school. If that is the case, consider hiring a translating service. Since wedding invitation wording is a small job, it shouldn’t cost too much.

Using bilingual wedding invitations is a personal decision that can honor a cultural background, welcome a large group of foreign guests, or even highlight an interest outside the couple’s own culture. If translated correctly, this gesture will help make your wedding more special and uniquely yours by incorporating a treasured culture into your special day.

Teaching languages as a foreigner in Asia is really popular these days. Many backpackers from Europe really fall in love with Asia and ends up spending many years there, often doing jobs like language teaching. There is something special with Asia that makes you really not want to go back to work in boring Europe or the US again.

Anyways, most of these young backpackers end up becoming English teachers. There are several countries in Asia that you can teach English in, Thailand, Korea and Japan being the most common. I have also met people teaching English in Cambodia, Laos and Singapore on my travels in Asia however, and almost all of them seem to enjoy their job. There is a high demand for English teachers in Asia as it is often very hard to find local people that speak English well enough to be able to teach it.

The only bad thing with being an English teacher in most Asian countries is the salary. Countries like Thailand, Cambodia and Laos are really cheap to live in, but that is of course also reflected in the salaries. Like I said, being an English teacher is quite popular these days, so the language schools don not have to give high salaraies to attract people to work for them. The salary is still quite good in Korea and Japan though, but again these countries are more expensive to live in.

Something that I would suggest is to look into teaching other languages than English. Often the slaray will be quite a bit higher if you’re teaching another language, as it is quite hard for language schools to find teachers qualified to teach other languages. There is a big market for the large languages like Spanish, German and French, and even speaking these languages as your second language chances are you can get a job.

Also when it comes to smaller languages there might be a market for teaching it somewhere in Asia. Take a country like Philippines, they speak good English there so there is not much of a market for that, but when it comes to other languages, even small ones like Norwegian and Swedish, there is a market. The reason is that it is very common for Filipinos to work abroad, both on ships and in different countries all over the world, and foreign companies prefer that they speak some of the local language then.

I have myself had the experience to teach languages in Manila, which was a very rewarding and interesting experience. There was a wide range of different students, my youngest 16 and my oldest close to 40 years old. Most of my students were planning to go abroad to work in the near future, and some just wanted to learn the language as they had relatives from my country.

The way I got my job as a language teacher was through my blog about the Philippines. I also run a general travel blog with lots of information about long term travel and living abroad for several years.

Ek het jou lief

Albanian : Te dua

Amharic : Afekrishalehou

Arabic : Ana Behibak (to a male) Ana Behibek (to a female)

Basc : Nere Maitea

Bavarian : I mog di narrisch gern

Bengali : Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi

Berber : Lakh tirikh

Bicol : Namumutan ta ka

Bulgarian : Obicham te

Cambodian : kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah Bon sro lanh on

Cantonese : Ngo oi ney

Catalan : T’estim (mallorcan)

T’estime (valencian)

T’estimo (catalonian)

T’estim molt (I love you a lot)

Chinese : Wo ie ni (Manderin, Cantonese)

Croatian : Volim te (most common), or Ja te volim (less

common)

Czech : miluji te

Danish : Jeg elsker dig

Dutch : Ik hou van jou

Estonian : Mina armastan sind

Esperanto : Mi amas vin

Persian (Farsi) : Tora dust midaram

Flemish : Ik zie oe geerne

Finnish : Mina” rakastan sinua

French : Je t’aime

Friesian : Ik bin fereale op dy

Ik ha^ld fan dy (Most commonly used phrase) (the ^ is

above the a)

Gaelic : Ta gra agam ort

German : Ich liebe Dich

I mog Di ganz arg! (Suebian: South German dialekt.)

Greek : S’ ayapo

Gujarati

(a dialect of India) “Tane Prem Karoo Choo”

Hausa : Ina sonki

Hebrew : aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA (female to male)

aNEE oHEIV otAKH (male to female)

Ani ohev at (man to woman)

Ani ohevet atah (woman to man)

Hindi: Mein Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon

Hokkien : Wa ai lu

Hopi : Nu’ umi unangwa’ta

Hungarian : Szeretlek te’ged

Icelandic : ?g elska ßig

Indonesian : Saya cinta padamu

Saya Cinta Kamu

Aku tjinta padamu

Saja kasih saudari

Italian : Ti amo

Irish : taim i’ ngra leat

Japanese : Kimi o ai shiteru

Kazakh : Men seny jaksy kuremyn

Kiswahili : Nakupenda

Korean : Tangsinul sarang ha yo

Kurdish : Ez te hezdikhem

Latin : Te amo Vos amo

Lao : Khoi huk chau

Latvian : Es Tev milu

Lingala : Nalingi yo

Lithuanian: Ash miliu tave

Luo : Aheri

Madrid lingo : Me molas, tronca

Malay/Indonesian : Saya cintakan awak(awak=kamu=you)

Aku sayang engkau (engkau=kamu=you)

Malay : Saya cintamu

Saya sayangmu

Maltese: Inhobbok!

(Added by Christine )

Mandarin : Wo ai ni

Mohawk : Konoronhkwa

Navajo : Ayor anosh’ni

Ndebele : Niyakutanda

Norwegian : Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal)

Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)

Pakistani : Muje se mu habbat hai

Persian : Tora dost daram

Pilipino : Mahal Kita

Iniibig Kita

Polish : Ja Cie Kocham or Kocham Cie (Pronounced Yacha

kocham)

Portuguese : Eu te amo

Romanian : Te iu besc

Russian : Ya lyublyu tebya

Ya vas lyublyu

Scot Gaelic : Tha gradh agam ort

Serbian : Volim te (most common), or

Ja te volim” (less common)

Shona : Ndinokuda

Sioux : Techihhila

Slovak : lubim ta

Slovene : ljubim te (??????)

Spanish : Te amo

Swahili : Nakupenda

Swedish : Jag a”lskar dig

Swiss-German : Ch’ha di ga”rn

Tagalog : Mahal kita

Taiwanese : Gwa ai lee

Tamil Naan Unnai Kadhalikiren

Thai : Phom Rak Khun

Ch’an Rak Khun

Tunisian : Ha eh bak

Turkish : Seni seviyorum!

Urdu : Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai

Vietnamese : Anh ye^u em (man to woman)

Em ye^u anh (woman to man)

Toi yeu em

Vlaams : Ik hou van jou

Welsh : ‘Rwy’n dy garu di.

Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi)

Yiddish : Ikh hob dikh lib

Zazi : Ezhele hezdege (sp?)

Zuni : Tom ho’ ichema

In our other articles we’ve addressed the first two translations, now let’s look at how to say “where’s the john” across the globe!

Afrikaans Waar is die toilet? / Waa issie toilet?

Albanian Ku është banjoja?

Arabic (Modern Standard) (ain al-?ammaam?)

Arabic (Egyptian) (fayn il tawaleet?) ?

Arabic (Kuwaiti) (wään il-hhammám?)

where is the place of relaxing? = (wään bäät ir-ráhha?)

Arabic (Moroccan) (f?n kein lb?t lma?) ?

Albanian Ku është banjoja?

Alsatian Wo isch ’s Kabinee?

Asturian Ül bañu?

Azerbaijani Ayaq yolu haradad? Tualet haradad?r?

Basque Non dago komuna?

Belarusian ? (Dze tualet?)

(Padkazhyce, kali laska, dze tut prybiralnia?)

Breton Pelec’h emañ ar privezioù?

Bulgarian ? (Kade e toaletnata?)

Catalan On és la cambra de bany?

Chinese (Cantonese) ? chisó hai b?ndouh a?

sáisáug?an hai bndouh a?

Chinese (Mandarin) ? cèsu? zài

x?sh?uji?n zài n?li?

Chinese (Shanghainese) ? (daseucae lélá ghalitá?)

Cornish Ple’ma an bysva?

Croatian Gdje je zahod?

Czech Kde je prosím záchod?

Dalecarlian Hvar ir skalhúsað?

Danish Hvor er toilettet?

Dutch Waar is de WC? Waar is het toilet?

English Where’s the toilet / lavatory / bathroom / restroom /

powder room / gents/ladies?

Where’s the loo / bog / dunny / little boys’/girls’ room? (informal/slangy)

Old English Hwæ?r is þæt gangsetl? (Hwær is þæt gangsetl?)

Esperanto Kie estas la necesejo / la banejo?

Estonian Kus on tualett?

Flemish Waor is ‘t gemak?

Fijian E vei na vale-lailai?

Finnish Missä on vessa?

French Où sont les toilettes ?

Frisian (North) Weer as et hüüschen?

Frisian (North – Amrum dialect) Huar as at sekreet?

Frisian (West) Wêr is it húske?

Friulian Dulà isal il bagn?

Gaelic (Irish) Cá bfhuil an leithreas?

Gaelic (Manx) C’raad ta’n thie-veg / premmee-deiney/mraane / shamyr-oonlee?

Gaelic (Scottish) Càite bheil an taigh beag?

Galician ¿Onde está o baño?

German Wo ist die Toilette?

German (Swiss) Wo isch d’Tualettä?

Greek (Poú íne i toualétes?)

Haitian Creole Kote twalèt la?

Hausa I na makewayi ya ke?

Hawai’ian Aia i hea ka lua?

Hebrew (Eifo ha’sheirutim?) ? ?

Hindi ? (T?yalet kahan hai?)

Hungarian Hol van a mosdó?

Icelandic Hvar er klósettið?

Ilocano Ayanna ti banio?

Indonesian Di manakah kamar kecil?

Italian Dov’è la toilette? Dov’è il bagno?

Italian (Romanesco) ‘Ndo sta er cacatóre?

Jèrriais Où’est qu’est la p’tite maîson ès hoummes (m) /

fenmes (f)?

Où’est qu’est la p’tite maîson / la tchiêrêsse / la chiotte

Japanese ? (benjo wa doko desu ka)

? (toire wa doko desu ka)

Jutish (West) Hvor er æ toilett?

Jutish (North) Hwo er æ toilett?

Kazakh ? (Äjetxana qayda?)

? (Däretxana qayda?)

Khmer ? (ter bantub tek nov ti na?)

Korean ?? (hwajangsiri eodiyeyo)

Klingon nuqDaq ‘oH puchpa”e’?

Kurdish Awdes le kwêye?

Latin Ubi sunt latrinae? Ubi sunt loca secreta?

Ubi est conclave necessarium?

Latvian Kur ir tualete?

Limburgish Woe is ‘t prevaathoes / ‘t twalèt?

Lithuanian Kur yra tualetas?

Luxembourgish Wou as Toilette?

Low Saxon Woneem is de Toilett?

Macedonian ?? (Kade e toaletot?)

Malay Di mana tandas?

Malayalam (Kulimuri evitey nu?)

Maltese Fejn it-tojlit?

Marshallese Ewi em jirikrik in?

Mongolian

(Biye zasakh gazar khaana baidag ve?)

Ndebele Iphi indlwana yokuzithuma?

Norwegian Hvor er toalettet? (Bokmål) Kvar er toalettet? (Nynorsk)

Occitan Ont son los comuns?

Persian (tualet kojast?) ??

Plautdietsch Wua es dee Sse’kjreet?

Polish Gdzie jest toaleta?

Portuguese Onde é a casa de banho (Portugal) / o banheiro?

Onde são as casas de banho? (Portugal)

Onde fica o banheiro?

Onde há um banheiro (por aqui)?

Onde eu encontro/acho um banheiro (por aqui)?

Quechua Maipi kaskai tuyuna?

Romanian Unde este toaleta?

Russian ?? (Gde tualet?)

Scots Whaur’s the toilet / lavvy / cludgie?

Serbian ??

(Gde je toalet / kupatilo / zahod?)

Sesotho Batekamore e kae?

Slovak Kde je záchod?

Slovenian Kje imate straniš?e?

Spanish ¿Dónde están los aseos

¿Dónde están los sanitarios?

¿Dónde está el baño?

¿Dónde está el cuarto de baño?

Stellingwarfs Waor is’t huusien?

Swahili Choo kiko wapi?

Swati Iphi indlu lencane?

Swedish Var är toaletten?

Tagalog Nasaan ang kasilyas / banyo / CR? (comfort room)

Tamil ??

Thai (hôrng náhm yòo têe n?i?)

Tok Pisin Smolhaus i stap we?

Tsez (?ažatxan ri??ix?)

Tswana Ntlwana ya boitiketso e kae?

Turkish Tuvalet nerede?

Ukrainian (De tualyet?)

Urdu (bayt-ul-khala khana kahan hay?) ?

Uzbek Hojathona qay yerda?

Vietnamese C?u tiêu ? ?âu?

Volapük Kiöpo binom tvalet?

Võro Kon om peldik?

Welsh Ble mae’r toiled / lle chwech (place six) / t? bach (small house)?

Xhosa Liphi igumbi langasese?

Xitsonga Xana xi kumeka kwihi xihambukelo?

Yiddish (Vu iz der tualett?) ?

Zulu Likuphi itholethe?

Arabic: Shoukran

Cambodian: Orkun

Chinese (Cantonese): Doh je

Chinese (Mandarin): Xie-xie

Czech:Dekuju

Danish:Tak

Dutch:Dank je wel

Farsi: Motshakayram

Finnish:Kiitos paljo

French: Merci beaucoups

Gaelic: Go raibh maith agat

German:Danke schön

Greek:Evkaristo

Gujarati:Abhar

Hawaiian:Mahalo

Hebrew:Toda raba

Hindi: Shoukriah

Icelandic:Takk

Italian:Grazie

Japanese:Domo arigato

Korean: Kamsu hamnida

Laotian:Kob chie

Latvian:Paldies

Lithuanian:Attyu

Malay:Terima kasih

Mongolian:Vayarla

Norwegian:Tak

Pilipino (Tagalog):Salamat

Polish:Dziekuje bardzo

Portuguese:Obrigado

Romanian:Multimesk

Russian:Spasibo

Somali:Mahadsanid

Spanish:Muchas gracias

Swahili:Asante sana

Swedish:Tack

Thai:Kabkoon krup (man), Kabkoon ka (woman)

Turkish:tesekkurler ederim

Vietnamese:Cam ôn

Welsh:Diolch yn fawr

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But most of us many times throughout our lives want to express our affection to friends or loved ones who speak a different language. And what better or fun way than to say it in their native tongue.

Here’s a list of “I Love You” in many different languages.

Enjoy!

Afrikaans Ek is lief vir jou!

Albanian Te dua!

Amharic Afekrishalehou!

Arabic Ohiboke / Nohiboka

Armenian Yes kez si’rumem!

Basque Maite zaitut!

Bengali Ami tomake bahlobashi!

Bosnian Volim te!

Bulgarian Obicham te!

Catalan T’estimo!

Creole Mi aime jou!

Croatian Volim te!

Czech Miluji tev!

Danish Jeg elsker dig!

Dutch Ik hou van je!

English I love you!

Esperanto Mi amas vin!

Estonian Mina armastan sind!

Farsi Tora dost daram!

Filipino Iniibig kita!

Finnish (Mä) rakastan sua!

French Je t’aime!

Frisian Ik hald fan dei!

Galician Querote!

German Ich liebe dich!

Greek S’ayapo!

Gujarati Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon! tane chaahuN chhuN!

Hawaiian Aloha wau ia ‘oe!

Hebrew Anee ohev otakh / Anee ohevet otkha / Anee ohev otkha / Anee ohevet otakh

Hindi Mai tumase pyar karata hun / Mai tumase pyar karati hun

Hungarian Szeretlek!

Icelandic Eg elska thig!

Indonesian Saya cinta padamu!

Irish t’a gr’a agam dhuit!

Italian Ti amo!

Japanese Kimi o ai shiteru!

Korean Dangsinul saranghee yo!

Latin Te amo!

Latvian Es tevi milu!

Lithuanian As tave myliu!

Malaysian Saya cintamu!

Mandarin Wo ai ni!

Marshallese Yokwe Yuk!

Norwegian Jeg elsker deg!

Polish Kocham ciebie!

Portuguese Eu te amo!

Romanian Te iubesc!

Russian Ya tyebya lyublyu!

Sanskrit twayi snihyaami

Serbian Volim te!

Sesotho Kiyahurata!

Slovak Lubim ta!

Slovenian Ljubim te!

Spanish Te amo!

Swahili Nakupenda!

Swedish Jag älskar dig!

Tagalog Mahal kita!

Thai Phom rug khun / Chan rug khun

Turkish Seni seviyorum!

Ukrainian Ya tebe kokhayu!

Urdu Main tumse muhabbat karta hoon!

Vietnamese Anh yeu em / Em yeu an

Welsh Rwy’n dy garu di!

Yiddish Kh’hob dikh lib!

Zulu Ngiyakuthanda!