Thursday, December 17, 2009

Global Toasts

GLOBAL TOASTS
Here is a list of toasts to help you say the linguistically correct thing when you are traveling :
French - "A votre sante!"( To your health )
Italian - " Salute!" ( To health ) / "Cin Cin"
British - "Cheers!"
Hungarian - "Ege'sze'ge're!" ( To good health )
Japanese - "Kanpai!" ( pronounced Kampai )
Polish - "Na Zdrowie!" ( To health )
Russian - "Za vashe zdorovye!" ( To your health )
Greek - "Yasas!" / "Eis Igian!" / "Stin ijiasas!"
Chinese - "Wen Lie!" / "Gan bie!"
Irish - "Slainte!"
Swedish - "Skal!"
Brazilian - "Saude!" ( Health )
Spanish - "Salud!" ( Health )
German - "Prost!" ( from Latin 'prosit' - may it be good )
Zulu (Africa) - "Ooogy Wawa!"
India - "Tulleeho!"

No comments:

Post a Comment