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This little book aims to introduce the Thai language. It is intended for those who know nothing about it, but are keen to learn. We use the method of selecting 100 key words, and using these to make up sentences and present a range of expressions, so that you can "say 1000 things.
His skin's so tanned he could be Turkish or something
English. That was where I met him.
Shit is universal no matter which language.
The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World.
Khalepa ta kala
"Beauty is harsh
I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan.
Pidgin, pidgin everywhere. A peculiarity of dropping the connective, the article, of translating literally, of using present for past, present for future. We Filipinos did not speak pidgin. Our English was straight from the grammar texts.
From a labour point of view, there are practically three races, the Malays the Chinese and Tamils. By nature, the Malay is an idler, the Chinaman is a thief, and the Indian is a drunkard. Yet each, in his special class of work, is both cheap and efficient when properly supervised.
Cambodian! Don't we know each other until we die separately?
Indians, schmindians!
Maktub" (It is written.)
Ay, is it not a language I speak?
I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.
Love, my ass. The international language is food.
Different languages cut the world into different slices.
For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.
A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.
Samassi Abou don't speak the English too good.
Chi ti ama ti aspetta(Who loves waits for You).
The tongue they speak there is not like any spoken in the Archipelago or the other Reaches, and they are a savage people, white-skinned, yellow-haired, and fierce, liking the sight of blood and the smell of burning towns.
A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
Do you know the Ai'oan word for heart? he asks.
I shake my head.
"It's py'a." We're so close, his whisper is right in my ear, and his breath warms the side of my neck. "You are my heart, Pia.
she's part Armenian,
You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum.
Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
Why is a hard question to answer in any langauage.
Tribally speaking...
Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)
The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.
In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.
One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses.
My language is the sum total of myself.
My speak a language my heart knows how to respond to.
I will always come for you, a ghra. You are my life, the very air I breathe, and I cannot be without you. Taim I ngra leat. Is tu mo shonuachar. I love you. You're my soul mate.
Siarad Cymraeg?" said Old Shacob.
"He wants to know if you speak Welsh," said the surveyor.
"NO!" yelled the official at the old man before him.
"Tamn it all; his language, man!" shouted Dan. "What you expect in Wales - Chinese, or what?!
This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor to any group with customs and traditions, but the property of all of us from Sabang to Merauke!
I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.
Marry, this is miching mal hecho. It means mischief!
A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
Teen uk'al k'iinam. Teen uk'al yah. I drink your ache. I drink your pain.
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the one who launched the legends like Rajni sir, Kamal sir & Prakash Raj sir.
I want to start where language ends.
These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
[Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent
In mala.]
There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.
she likes the sound of languages other than English.
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. - unknown
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
Sameron adion aso
I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow
Itterasshai.
Go and come back safely.
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
So, it's like calling out for Chinese? An order of Sum Yung Gai with wings?
Sometimes we speak different languages, but our hearts are the same.
B'ao ku ishe o tan When there is life, there is still hope.
What is a nation without a mother tongue?
I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.
Indonesia has vast region with so many islands, comprises so many ethnics, tongues and cultures that make it so hard to be recognized as a single nation.
However, we do recognize it as Bhinneka Tunggal Ika.
Malavika Vishwanath. Don't try to say it you'll just piss me off.
I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.
I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.
You can call me namastunde or surfatunde. Either works.
I know what the structure of the language is.
nihari, a rich beef curry,
A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
Who are you and how do you speak English?
What is love? In English.
I'm pretty good with languages.
'Gaydamak' in Turkish means a fighter. That's me.
I know my own heart to be entirely English.
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."
Riley swings the door open and grins at me. "G'day mate!"
I frown at him. "What the hell was that?"
"Me," he says, "trying to speak your language."
I push past him and plonk myself down on his sofa. "That was Australian.
Language is the key to the heart of people.
I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.
When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'
Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.
For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.
Asian face and local language skills to handle the cash. I had just returned to the States from Vietnam, having left the military under a cloud, the origins of which I was able to understand only years later. My mother, the American half of the marriage, had just died; I had no brothers or sisters;
I have a good ear for languages.
How could I be sure of these teeangers' national origin? Was I using names of origin to give them a place instead, when it was clear that they were moving toward a new language?
Tongues and odors mixed on the air: Iskari and motor oil, sweat and leather, Camlaander and Archipelagese and some Shining Empire dialect like silk-muffled cymbals.
My look is 'Poly'n'Asian' - part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.
I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
(Hungarian ... ) the only tongue the devil respects
Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.
The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.
Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
Irish as a Paddy's pig.
It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - one with my voice and one with the girl's voice. But he preferred the girl's voice and he preferred my voice with an [inaudible].
Stupid, perfect Asian kid
I just love dialects; they're really fun.
When relatives asked, "How is your life in America?" my father would answer, Nandito pa rin kami. We're still here.
The only international language in the world is a child's cry,
Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.
Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate nationality ... the notes of nationality, our language and customs.