Christmas present

[Uns_Uwe]

Hey folks,

need your help!

At my school every course has to pack a shoe box with christmas presents and also other useful stuff (hygiene-things). It will be send to a poor kid in East-europe, Southafrica or Zentral-asia.
We don't know where so we wanted to add a card which contains christmas regards in as many languages as possible!

Okay I'll have a start here (I can 'speak' Latin, too, but they don't have expressions like that...) :
Merry Christmas! (English)
Frohe Weihnachten! (German)
¡Feliz Navidad! (Spanish)
...

Okay and now I need your help, I would like to see as many as we have here, expecially those who are spoken in that regions...(I trust you guys more than the google translater, so pls help me!)

I thought this forum would be best to ask for it ;)

[Hypie]

In dutch but I doubt you will send anything to The Netherlands:

Fijne Kerstdagen

or

Gelukkig kerstfeest

[leonhart0512]

Buon Natale (Italian) i believe

[Luke]

Make sure to check up on all sentences :p. I think it would be really awkward for a kid to receive a present including a note saying something dirty about his/her mother, just because one of our players thought it was funny :p

[thomas85]

hahahaha I doubt that's going to happen. Not on a charity present for poor kids of the world. Right?

[Luke]

I wouldn't do that but you never know. (coming from me who once tried to convince Red Ivan(when he was in Holland) that 'Wafel kopen?'(wanna buy a waffle?) means 'can i buy you something to drink?'. To use as his opening sentence for girls here).

[Bavarian Lib Front]

In Russian:

S Rozhdestvom Kristovym

or if you prefer it in Cyrillic, which more people in eastern europe would possibly understand, it would be:

С Рождeством Христовым

[ghetto bob]

I wouldn't do that but you never know. (coming from me who once tried to convince Red Ivan(when he was in Holland) that 'Wafel kopen?'(wanna buy a waffle?) means 'can i buy you something to drink?'. To use as his opening sentence for girls here).

:D LOL good times :D

[Starbuck]

In Afrikaans:

Geseende Kersfees

[purefrost]

Merry Christmas in traditional (and simplified) Chinese:

a) 聖誕節快樂(圣诞节快乐)
b) 耶誕節快樂(耶诞节快乐)

both a) and b) work

[Uns_Uwe]

I wouldn't do that but you never know. (coming from me who once tried to convince Red Ivan(when he was in Holland) that 'Wafel kopen?'(wanna buy a waffle?) means 'can i buy you something to drink?'. To use as his opening sentence for girls here).

When we had some americans exchange students here in Germany they had a teacher with them and and he didn't understand a single word german. So they told him that saying "Danke Schlampe" (Thanks Biatch) would be polite to say eg when he was buying something in a store :D So he did thinking he was polite to that lady :D

Back on topic:
I already checked most of it ;)

Russian, chinese, afrikaans, that were the languages I was looking for. we'll see who else got some more and if there is nobody, I'll pm the people directly whom I know that they have a different native language :)

[ikan]

Selamat Hari Krismas (Malay)
Selamat Hari Natal (Indonesian)

[leonhart0512]

lmao uns, how did that work out? you left a cliffhanger. was the lady pissed? or what? lolol

[Uns_Uwe]

I don't know exactly cause we all were already laughing so hard :D
I think she was confused as he was polite and smiling at her. She said nothing :D

[leonhart0512]

lmaooo that's too good hahaha it would have been so priceless to see in real life for me

[sagetab]

Siniqwenelela Ikrisimesi EmnandI Nonyaka Omtsha Ozele Iintsikelelo Namathamsanqa (Merry Christmas in Xhosa)
Sinifesela Ukhisimusi Omuhle Nonyaka Omusha Onempumelelo (Merry Christmas in Zulu)
Yep, these languages like BIG words :D

For MANY languages go here:
http://christmas.newarchaeology.com/merry-christmas.php

[Uns_Uwe]

Siniqwenelela Ikrisimesi EmnandI Nonyaka Omtsha Ozele Iintsikelelo Namathamsanqa (Merry Christmas in Xhosa)
Sinifesela Ukhisimusi Omuhle Nonyaka Omusha Onempumelelo (Merry Christmas in Zulu)
Yep, these languages like BIG words :D

For MANY languages go here:
http://christmas.newarchaeology.com/merry-christmas.php

Wow that's cool!

But I guess it includes "...and a Happy New Year!", right? I mean that's okay just...you know it's a little too long! :D

[HRH]

In Russian:

S Rozhdestvom Kristovym

or if you prefer it in Cyrillic, which more people in eastern europe would possibly understand, it would be:

С Рождeством Христовым

and the Bavarian's say
...scheene Weihnacht'n und a guat's nei's Johr...:D.

Nice Thorsten, that you help the poor who have to leave Bavaria to work in Moscow to feed their families...

[Uns_Uwe]

and the Bavarian's say
...scheene Weihnacht'n und a guat's nei's Johr...:D.

Don't be mean, Hans!

It's not his fault that he cannot speak German properly :p