hej hejsan hallå tjena
swedish
Could you change the title to: “What’s ‘Hello’ in your language?” Or something similar? I had a hard time understanding what you meant^^
Casual: hoi
Formal: Grüezi
Switzerland / swiss-german
Btw the swedish one looks like “Hello how are you?” Does that come close?^^
In Wales, welsh specifically we say helo
what you mean wiht that hello how are you= hej hur är det/du
english = german
hello = Hallo
Hello how are you? = Hallo, wie geht es dir?
That means “hej” would be hello right? so what means “hejsan hallå tjena”?
Or are these 4 different words for hello? If so commas betweend them would reeeeally help^^ And when is which one used?
google means
swedish = english
hejsan = hello
hallå = hello
tjena = ???
wow swedish is not easy, google say that this all means the same: Hej , hallå , hejsan , tjänare
all means hello
I figured as much. Thanks for the clarification.
Now my question to the Swedes on this forum still stands. When do you use which one?^^ My guess is that they are different stages of politeness.
chinese mandarin = ni hao (nee how)
french = bonjour
english = hello
Also, this is my first post on the forums, hoping for a good flying start because personally, I prefer the air.
Welcome to the forum then^^
Which one is your mother tongue if I may ask?
My first language is English, I’m a British citizen but I also have Hong Kong citizenship. I’m not particularly good at Cantonese but with Mandarin I can get accents correct and my vocabulary is very little for written Chinese. I also can understand and say many verbs and I know the basic grammar rules. I can’t say or understand many everyday nouns so I find that very tricky so I’m working on it 
. I can use all pronouns so that’s a big plus. I used to have weekly lessons at a Chinese community but I had to drop them once I started GCSEs at my secondary school and haven’t picked it up since. As french is a very time consuming language to learn I haven’t had the motivation or time to learn Chinese any more. A bit of a shame, but I plan to pick it up once more in the future.
P.S: Sorry for the wall of text >.<, but I hope you found a little bit of my background interesting >_>
P.S.S: What’s your mother tongue?
Yes I didn’t expect so much information^^ But it is interesting. A friend of mine also learned chinese in highschool.
Does chinese have different politeness levels for greetings?
My mother tongue is swiss-german. In school we learned german (we call it high/standard german). After that we started to learn french and a few years later english until the end of highschool. So yea theoretically I should be able to speak 4 languages^^ (3 if you count both germans as 1, and if you exclude the programming languages xD)
I’d really like to learn japanese but I’m just too lazy to go to a school for it^^ I’d also like to learn italian and spanish but that might be a bit too much^^
Yes, Chinese has all sorts of silly and hard to remember greetings. Personally I hate all the different relative names. Unlike English, you have a unique word for the grandfather/mother on your mother or father’s side of the family. Then you can have a unique word for the grandfather/mother’s brother/sister on your mother/father’s side. It’s incredibly confusing, but I guess it’s less ambiguous.
Also, if it’s not impolite, can I ask around what age/level of school you are? You don’t have to reply to this if you feel uncomfortable about it.
Wow I didn’t know it was that complicated. So literally every position in the family tree has it’s own name? I assume every name does also have abbreviations like in japanese which are more or less polite is that correct?
Oh no problem^^ at the moment I’m in the first year of university, studying computer science. What about you?
I just started my GCSE course in Y10 at secondary school. My optional subjects that I took are:
French
Computing
Graphics Design
Ok what’s GCSE? and Y10 means year 10?
oh and nice subjects^^
Y10 means Year 10, in my school they abbreviate it to Y10 so I’m used to it, sorry if it’s confusing.
GCSE means General Certification of Secondary (Or Student?) Education
You start studying the GCSE in Y9 for some subjects, but all subjects will have started by Y10. Near the end of Y11 you go on study leave by staying at your home every day revising. When you get back you start your GCSE tests. Later on in the year you get the results for the test which are in letters or numbers. Starting from my year group some subjects have a number system which is new in the UK. The year after me is using the number system for all subjects.
In the old letter system the highest grade achievable is an A* to A, B, C, etc
In the new number system the highest grade achievable is a 9 which is harder to get than an A*, new much harder questions (similar to A levels in the UK) have been introduced. The aim of this new system is to push down the C grade (I believe it would be a 4 to get a low C in the new system) to push up the intelligence of the UK by devaluing a low C but valuing a high C (5).
TLDR: Numbers introduced so the grade C is split in half so that employers only value the top half of the C grade equivalent to a new grade 5.
Sorry for the wall of text, again >_<
Also, if you are able to go online now, how can I add you as a friend/PM you etc to play together?
You don’t have to be sorry^^ at least for me I find it very interesting. Although we might be a bit off topic even for the off topic category^^
So we have 12 years of school before university. Is it the same in the UK? I know exactly nothing about the school system in the UK. (Well now I do a bit but still.)
About being online, I don’t really play at the moment. (Thinking about it I should build something where I placed my beacon^^) But you can add me on steam. I’ll PM you my name.
Just gonna plop this in there, but it was very interesting to read about all of this! Granted some of it was very confusing, for myself at least, granted I did skim 
. It’s so fascinating hearing about the education in foreign countries, I currently reside in America and I am in my 10th year of schooling. However looking at the foreign language background of both of you is amazing. Kurokuma you are so lucky to be taught so many languages at such a young age, here in the U.S. we start learning a foreign language once we reach our 8th year of schooling. I’m so envious!!! Also Kurokuma I’m currently studying Japanese, but I don’t have any formal education in it. I’m all self-taught, though I’m no where near fluent. No matter, if you have any questions about the easy beginner stuff (you may already be past that if you’re studying) then feel free to ask me.
Thanks again for the interesting read!