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title: Charming and Friendly Sayings in Different Languages - Limitless Mindset
description: This is a compilation of charming and friendly sayings in various languages, that I learned while traveling in Central and South America.
author: Jonathan Roseland
url: https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/limitless-lifestyle/637-sayings-different-languages
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# Charming and Friendly Sayings in Different Languages

| Ⓒ By Jonathan Roseland |  |
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Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur & Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."

This is a compilation of charming and friendly sayings in various languages, that I learned while traveling in Central and South America.

For the sayings, you'll see the language, the spelling in that language, the phonetic spelling as it sounds to an English speaker along with the memory association I used to memorize it. You can borrow my memory associations or make up your own, just remember the more bizarre your memory associations are, the easier to remember they will be to recall.

## Spanish

> *El placer fue a el mio -* The pleasure was mine.
> *Todos Los caminos yeavan hacia aroma* - Everyone has to find their own way.

Costa Rican Spanish

> *Pura Vida* - Pure Life
> Phonetically: PuRa vida (hard r, almost a d)

Memory Association:
Pura > Pure
Vida > Vital (Vital signs, imagine an EKG or hospital machine that monitors heartbeat)
Visualization: Pure Costa Rican water (at a beach), then a giant hospital machine, displaying vital signs, falls into it, crashing.

> *Evita la cruda permanezca borracho* - Avoid the hangover, stay drunk

Panama

> *Que Sopa!* - What's up!

And I learned a lot more Spanish, in fact, I became fluent in the language. Checkout my article, [+100 Pickup Lines in Spanish](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/1626-pickup-lines-spanish)

## French

> *Se mah le que*- I know what

## Dutch

> *Leuk je te ontmoeten* - Nice to Meet You
> Phonetically: low qu e tu unt munten

Memory Association:
Holland > Hollandaise sauce
low qu > a large queue (people standing in a line) being lowered on a crane
e tu > e tu brutus? A roman guard
unt munt > untz untz untz (sound of techno music) glow sticks, on a mountain (for munt)
Visualization: A massive amount of hollandaise sauce dripping on people in a queue, held up by a crane, knocking the people off as they fall to their deaths, as they fall they are impaled on a giant sword from a Roman soldier (e tu), then the roman soldier joins a legion of Roman soldiers but instead of swords they have glowsticks and are charging up a mountain.

> *Neuken in de keuken* = fucking in the kitchen

## Irish

> Nice to meet you
> Phonetic: 'Even luam da hone'

Memory Association:
Evenluam> even lam
da hone > da (the) home (urban or hip hop looking home)
Visualization: Two giant lambs that are exactly the same even height with an even board across their backs. Run over and trample a house in the ghetto blaring hip-hop music (da da da)

> "I'd like to make sweet love to you"
> Phonetic: Es ama thon more misha

## Italian

> *Piacere* - Nice to meet you
> Phonetic: Pia ach erEY

## Hebrew (Israeli)

> *Ma Kore ACH sheli -* What's up my brother?

> Phonetically: *Mako ve agch shelly* - Drink Whore!

> Phonetic: *Tee shteh*(soft e)*zona*

Memory Association:
Tee> Tea
shteh> Stay (locked down)
zona > zone (barbed wire fence around it)
Visualization: I'm shooting with an Israeli Uzi a giant pot of tea that is chained down in a zone, which is surrounded by a barbed-wire fence.

> *Le haime*

## German

> *hey doo beest sews! -* You are pretty girls

Memory Association:
Germans >
Memory Association:
Hay doo (pooping), best sowing
Visualization: A person pooping on hay then sitting in it and doing the best sowing

> *Prost* - Cheers

## Portuguese

> *Voce e uma borboleta linda* - You're a beautiful butterfly

## Russian

> *Привет красивая девушка* - You are a pretty girl

Phonetically: Privet krasivaya devushka

## Serbian

> *Drago mi je da sam vas upoznao! -* Pleased to meet you
> Phonetically: Drago me yeh da sum vas oop ouz now

Memory Association:
Drago me > dragon me
yeh da sum > Yoda, sum (Yoda with a calculator)
vas > vase
oop ouz now > opps! ouch! now!
Visualization: I am riding a dragon, which is fighting a giant Yoda who is throwing deadly calculators at us. One of the calculators hits a huge vase and knocks it off its pedestal (oops!). It falls on my foot and hurts (ouch!). I need to go to the hospital Now!

> *Ti si veoma lepa devojka! -* You are a very beautiful girl
> Phonetically: ti si veoma lepa devolka

## Swedish

> *Trevligt att traffas - *Nice to meet you
> Phonetically - Trev leaked aght trefas (first a guttural)

Memory Association:
Trev leaked > Swedish pornstar as TRex with a revving engine that's leaking.
aght > ATT (phone company)
trefas > tree fast
Visualization: A giant blond pornstar/TRex hybrid has a revving engine in its belly and is leaking oil everywhere while talking on the phone (ATT). Then the TRex rides a tree fast.

> *Du er vacker* -You're beautiful

Memory Association:
Du > Giant blond Swedish pornstar with "du du" (poop) on her
Er > Emergency room
Vacker > Vacuum her
Visualization: Imagine a giant Swedish pornstar, covered with poop in an emergency room. It's your job to vacuum her.

> *Skowl - *Cheers
> Phonetically: skull

Memory Association: imagine yourself giving a cheers but instead of using a glass you are drinking out of a skull.

> *Smaken arrd som bakken* - "The taste is like the behind" meaning that the opinions are different person to person

## Swiss

> Nice to Meet You!
> Phonetic: *Freet me*

## Turkish

> *Serefe -* Cheers
> Phonetic: shed eff ay

## Urdu

> *Tumb Que se ho* - Nice to meet you

Even if you're not learning a new language, these kinds of sayings are a great opportunity to practice mnemonic memory systems.

Check out my podcast, [#30 Lifehacking Language Learning: Technology and Charm](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/podcast/636-lifehacking-language-learning)

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