Happy New Year in 6 Different Languages! Happy New Year in 6 Different Languages!.Unless you are a Celtic agnostic (and they are out th...
Happy New Year in 6 Different Languages!
Happy New Year in 6 Different Languages!.Unless you are a Celtic agnostic (and they are out there so I don't intend to slight them) and various others, your New Year comes at the start of January. I have gathered the expression "Glad New Year" in a few distinct dialects with the goal that you can either inspire (or irritate) your companions, or really utilize the expression to somebody who doesn't communicate in English.
 |
| Happy New Year in 6 Different Languages! |
Although the Hebrew New Year is actually Rosh Hashanah (usually sometime in September), you can say "shana tova" at both New Years. For your Spanish speaking friends, you can use "Feliz Ano ~Nuevo" with great gusto. What about if you know someone who speaks Irish? You can use "Bliain nua fe mhaise dhuit" but don't ask me how to pronounce it. The Celtic languages always seem to have too many letters to me.
Then there are, of course, the French, they who have brought us champagne, brie, and French fries. To them, I would wish a hearty "bonne annee" as I drain my glass and nibble on another escargot (with Brigitte Bardot?)
For our troops overseas, valiantly protecting our way of life, if you have the occasion you can wish one of the locals a gleeful "Sanah Jadidah" with a nod toward Mecca. And, to my wife's family on Sao Michael on the Azores (some of the best food ever, my wife's carne guisada will make a grown man cry) I would offer my heartfelt "Feliz Ano Novo"
That's Happy New Year in six languages. I hope it is of some use to you.
COMMENTS