Thankyou in your language

Latvian -- Paldies (stress on the last syllable).

Thai ==> Khob koun kha (if the speaker is female)
Khob koun krap (if the speaker is male)

Italian: Grazie
Latin: Gratia tibi

Thanks... I had the Italian, but the others were new... I have a "Thai Hill Tribes" phrase book and it was saying that instead of ThankYou, presents were given instead.... but I haven't yet added a Thai phrase book to my collection (I mean one that would be useful in any town/city in Thailand.

I was interested to see the Latin... i noticed there is a lot of Latin on this forum :-)

Anyway thanks, gracies, gracias, obrigada, grazie, merci etc.... please keep them coming :-)

English: Thank you
Romanian: Multumesc

There is also "Mersi" which is, let's say, more personal (not so polite).

Salamat - filipino thank you

Hawaiian: Mahalo.

Be cautious with the so call "Thai Hill Tribe" phrase book. I haven't seen it but I could say with 90% certainty that it's rubbish. There are severals hill tribes in thailand which have not only differents costumes but also languages. And about the present, consideration and common sense would tell you what to do. I have seen a Thai guide book with some "useful" prases, they are rude words comparable to instead of "she" it use the word "bitch" and "bastard" for "he". People who wrote them are in general ignorant, as soon as they add a gramm of knowledge to their heads they think that they know all.

Wow... this was a "Lonely Planet" guide so I would think it was probably more reliable than many... It saddens me to feel that people would abuse people's desire to learn languages in such a way!!

Thank for the hawaiian... that was new... :-)

Am not sure how to pronounce multumesc, although I have a few romanian penpals... i hope to be in romania briefly either next year or 2007 :-) I didn;t know about mersi... although i know there are many similarities between romanian and Franch (although Romanian is way way better of course )

EngelskJente: You might be interested in learning that in Hawaiian there is no accepted phrase or word for "you're welcome." The custom, apparently, used to be to just accept the 'thanks' with a smile. Since the coming of the white man to the Islands, it has become polite to say something when someone says "Mahalo." So some Hawaiians will answer with "Aloha" (which, literally, means 'love') or, more recently, "a'ole pilikia" which is a literal translation of "no problem."

mahalo!

I thought aloha meant hello and goodbye... didnt know it literally meant "love" :-)

I think i need to find a phrase book and start learning Hawaiian, it looks very interesting :-)

Aloha is commonly used to say both hello and goodbye. But its literal meaning is love. Hawaiians will speak of someone as having 'a lot of aloha', meaning he is a good and caring person.

There's a person who posts infrequently now on this forum, screen name Pueo (Hawaiian for Owl) who is a native Hawaiian and knows the language much, much better than I do. If you're interested in learning, you might try and get his attention (somehow).

Thanks :-)

Hebrew == Toda

Japanese -- domo arrogato (but you probably knew that)

Arabic -- Shukren (and you probably knew that, too)

THANKYOU Sterika!!! Once, long ago I knew the Hebrew and then totally forgot.... I knew that there were a couple out of my 30 that I had forgotten.... Hebrew being one... now what WAS that other language?

Yes, thankyou Andrew, I knew both arigato and shukran, but I am appreciative of all input, as mixed in with the ones I knew, are several that I didn't :-)

What I do not know however, is to write either of those (or xie xie, efkharista and the Thai word) in their own scripts... I did know how to write the Russian one though.... **must get art degree and write in other scripts without writing something wrong and offending**

Thai ==> Khob koun kha (if the speaker is female)
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Khob koun krap (if the speaker is male) ขอบคุณครับ
Would you like the Hebrew as well ?

Chinese: 谢谢
In pinyin：xiexie

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OOh.. yes please.. thanks

Am very happy that I have many different fonts in this computer... in our old one we could only get latin and cyrillic characters

am creating a wordpad document with the special character "thankyou"s