sälemetsiz be? (sah-lem-met-siz beh) - hello (formal).namaste (nah-mah-steh) / namaskāra (nah-mah-skah-rah) - hello.konnichiwa (kohn-nee-chee-wah) - good afternoon / hello.assalamualaikum (ahs-sah-lahmoo-ah-lay-koom) / salam (sah-lahm) - hello (for Muslims).nômoshkar (naw-mo-shkar) - hello (for Hindus).By observing native speakers, you can hear how certain phrases, including greetings, are articulated in their native natural ways. Thai, Lao, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Japanese and Chinese are tonally varied languages, meaning as you speak, pitch changes dramatically alter the meaning of words and phrases. salaam aleekum (sah-laam ah-ley-koom) - helloĪside from Turkic languages of Central Asia and some Asian languages that were influenced by European colonization, most Asian languages are astoundingly unique and diverse, and there’s less common ground shared with other major language families.avuxeni (ah-voo-sheh-nee) - hello (greeting).salibonani (sah-lee-boh-nah-nee) - hello.manao ahoana (man-ow ah-ohn-ah) / salama (sah-lAHm-ah) / akory (ah-kOO-ree).
#Ways to say hello how to#
Don’t be nervous about saying hello as the effort will usually be appreciated even if you don’t get it quite right! Reading how to greet others in many languages is both rewarding and fun, so here’s a handy list of how to say hello in 100 languages, along with the phonetic pronunciation. Opening a conversation with a greeting is polite and shows willingness to communicate. I’m sure there are more out there, but this is just to give you an idea of how many variants you could actually incorporate into your conversations so you’re not always using the same greetings.A greeting is often the first point of call for human communication, and should be the first phrase you learn from any foreign language. Howdy (rural Southern US, I must admit I love this one!) What have you been up to? (again, maybe it’s been a few days or weeks that you haven’t seen the person)Ģ4. Nice to see you! / Glad to see you again! (this is more formal)Ģ3. Long time no see! (seemingly ungrammatical way to say “I haven’t seen you in ages!)Ģ1. How’s life treating you? (you haven’t seen the person for quite some time)ġ8. Look who it is! (again, you weren’t expecting to see that person or you haven’t seen them for a long time)ġ6. yo, what’s good? (US, hip-hop slang still used today, found this the other day and didn’t know about it – not an expert of hip-hop slang but I find it absolutely fascinating!)ġ4. Well hello! / well, hi there! / Well, hello there! (you are surprised)ġ3. What’s up? (mostly American, but it’s entering the UK as well)ġ2. How are you? (surprisingly, not the most used of the bunch)ġ0. The Brits use this to just say hello, so when they see each other they’ll just go like “Alright?” “Alright!”. Alright? (this one deserves an explanation.
Good morning / afternoon /evening (more formal)ħ.
#Ways to say hello plus#
Ok, so what I did is I racked my brain and pulled out all of the expressions to greet people that I could possibly think of – plus one that I have recently heard of for the first time.Ĥ. And not only to simply say “hello”, but also to ask “how are you?”, even though sometimes they are merged and we kinda say “how are you” to actually say “hello” and we don’t mean to ask a question.
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