Useful foreign phrases
A collection of useful phrases suitable for a variety of situations in many
different languages with sound files for quite a few of them.
Index by phrase |
Index by language |
Index by language family |
Multilingual Phrase Finder |
Silly phrases
Index of phrases by language family
Afroasiatic languages
Berber languages
Kabyle ,
Tamasheq
Chadic languages
Hausa
Cushitic languages
Oromo ,
Somali
Semitic languages
Amharic ,
Arabic (Egyptian) ,
Arabic (Lebanese) ,
Arabic (Modern Standard) ,
Arabic (Moroccan) ,
Aramaic ,
Assyrian ,
Hausa ,
Hebrew ,
Maltese
[top ]
Algonquian languages
Arapaho ,
Atikamekw ,
Cheyenne ,
Cree (Plains) ,
Innu ,
Míkmaq ,
Ojibwe ,
Sauk ,
Shawnee
[top ]
Arawakan languages
Garifuna ,
Taíno-Quisqueyanaíqui ,
Wayuu
[top ]
Athabaskan languages
Chipewyan ,
Navajo
[top ]
Austroasiatic languages
Khmer ,
Vietnamese
[top ]
Austronesian languages
Land Dayak languages
Biatah
Malay-Polynesian languages
Balinese ,
Banjar ,
Central Dusun ,
Chamorro (Guam dialect) ,
Chamorro (North Marianas dialect) ,
Coastal Kadazan ,
Fijian ,
Iban ,
Indonesian ,
Javanese ,
Malagasy ,
Malay ,
Māori ,
Palauan ,
Tetum ,
Yapese
Micronesian languages
Chuukese ,
Kiribati ,
Marshallese ,
Pohnpeian
Philippine languages
Aklan ,
Bikol ,
Blaan ,
Capiznon ,
Cebuano ,
Cuyonon ,
Hiligaynon ,
Iloko ,
Tagalog
Polynesian languages
Hawaiian ,
Māori ,
Niuean ,
Rapa Nui ,
Samoan ,
Tahitian ,
Tokelauan ,
Tongan ,
Tuvaluan
[top ]
Aymaran languages
Aymara
[top ]
Caucasian languages
North East Caucasian languages
Batsbi ,
Chechen ,
Lezgi ,
Tabassaran ,
Udi
North West Caucasian languages
Abkhaz ,
Adyghe
South Caucasian languages
Georgian ,
Laz
[top ]
Chumashan languages
Samala
[top ]
Dravidian languages
Kannada ,
Malayalam ,
Tamil ,
Telugu
[top ]
Eskimo-Aleut
Aleut ,
Greenlandic ,
Inuktitut ,
Iñupiaq
[top ]
Hmong-Mien languages
White Hmong
[top ]
Indo-European languages
Albanian languages
Albanian (Gheg) ,
Albanian (Tosk)
Armenian languages
Armenian (Eastern) ,
Armenian (Western)
Baltic languages
Latvian ,
Lithuanian ,
Samogitian
Celtic languages
Breton ,
Cornish ,
Cumbric ,
Irish ,
Manx ,
Scottish Gaelic ,
Welsh ,
Welsh (Gwentian)
Germanic languages
Afrikaans ,
Alsatian ,
American Norwegian ,
Bavarian ,
Cimbrian ,
Danish ,
Dutch ,
Elfdalian ,
English (British) ,
Faroese ,
Flemish (West) ,
Frisian (North - Bökingharde) ,
Frisian (North - Sylt) ,
Frisian (Saterland) ,
Frisian (West) ,
German ,
Gothic ,
Icelandic ,
Limburgish ,
Low Saxon ,
Luxembourgish ,
Norwegian ,
Old English ,
Pennsylvania German/Dutch ,
Scots ,
Stellingwarfs ,
Swedish ,
Swiss German (Basel dialect) ,
Swiss German (Chur dialect) ,
Swiss German (Lucerne dialect) ,
Värmlandic ,
West Jutlandic ,
Westrobothnian ,
Wymsorys ,
Yiddish
Hellenic languages
Greek (Modern) ,
Greek (Ancient)
Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Aryan languages
Assamese ,
Bengali ,
Bhojpuri ,
Dogri ,
Garhwali ,
Gujarati ,
Hindi ,
Kashmiri ,
Magahi ,
Maithili ,
Maldivian ,
Marathi ,
Nepali ,
Odia (Oriya) ,
Punjabi ,
Romani ,
Sanskrit ,
Sindhi ,
Sinhala ,
Sylheti ,
Urdu
Iranian languages
Dari ,
Kurdish (Kurmanji) ,
Kurdish (Sorani) ,
Mazandarani ,
Ossetian ,
Pashto ,
Persian (Farsi) ,
Tajik ,
Zazaki
Romance languages
Aragonese ,
Aranese ,
Aromanian ,
Asturian ,
Catalan ,
Corsican ,
Extremaduran ,
French ,
Friulian ,
Galician ,
Gallo ,
Gascon ,
Guernésiais ,
Italian ,
Jèrriais ,
Ladino ,
Latin ,
Occitan ,
Mirandese ,
Monégasque ,
Mozarabic ,
Picard ,
Portuguese (Brazlian) ,
Portuguese (European) ,
Romanian ,
Romansh ,
Sardinian (Campidanese) ,
Sardinian (Logodorese) ,
Sicilian ,
Spanish ,
Venetian ,
Walloon
Slavic languages
Belarusian ,
Bosnian ,
Bulgarian ,
Croatian ,
Czech ,
Kashubian ,
Macedonian ,
Old East Slavic ,
Polish ,
Russian ,
Rusyn ,
Serbian ,
Slovak ,
Slovenian ,
Sorbian (Lower) ,
Sorbian (Upper) ,
Ukrainian
[top ]
Iroquoian languages
Cherokee
[top ]
Koreanic languages
Korean
[top ]
Japonic / Japanese-Ryukyuan languages
Japanese ,
Okinawan
[top ]
Khoisan languages
Khoekhoe (Nama)
[top ]
Mande languages
Bambara ,
Loma ,
Vai
[top ]
Mayan languages
Kaqchikel ,
Mam ,
Tsotsil ,
Yucatec Maya
[top ]
Mongolic languages
Kalmyk ,
Mongolian
[top ]
Muskogean languages
Choctaw ,
Muscogee (Creek-Seminole)
[top ]
Niger-Congo languages
Bantoid languages
Bamum ,
Tiv
Bantu languages
Bemba ,
Chichewa ,
Chokwe ,
Duala ,
Herero ,
Ibinda ,
Kikuyu ,
Kinyarwanda ,
Lingala ,
Lozi ,
Luganda ,
Ndebele (Northern - South Africa) ,
Ndebele (Northern - Zimbabwe) ,
Ndebele (Southern)
Ngoni ,
Nkore ,
Northern Sotho ,
Oshiwambo ,
Shona ,
Southern Sotho (seSotho) ,
Swahili ,
Swati ,
Tsonga ,
Tswana ,
Tumbuka ,
Umbundu ,
Venda ,
Xhosa ,
Zulu
Benue-Congo languages
Efik
Gur languages
Kabiye ,
Mossi ,
Tem
Kru languages
Bassa ,
Bete (Daloa)
Kwa languages
Dangme ,
Twi
Senegambian languages
Fula ,
Wolof
Volta-Niger languages
Ewe ,
Igbo ,
Yorùbá
[top ]
Nilo-Saharan languages
Acholi ,
Dholuo ,
Tugen
[top ]
Pama-Nyungan languages
Yolngu
[top ]
Permic languages
Udmurt
[top ]
Quechuan languages
Cuzco Quechua ,
Kichwa
[top ]
Sino-Tibetan languages
Brahmaputran languages
Kokborok
Sinitic languages
Cantonese ,
Hakka ,
Mandarin ,
Shanghainese ,
Taiwanese ,
Teochew
Tani languages
Galo ,
Hill Miri ,
Mising
Tibeto-Burman languages
Burmese ,
Dzongkha ,
Manipuri ,
Newar ,
Tibetan
[top ]
Siouan languages
Crow ,
Lakota Sioux ,
Omaha
[top ]
Tai-Kadai languages
Kam ,
Lao ,
Thai ,
Yongbei Zhuang
[top ]
Tungusic languages
Ulch
[top ]
Tupí-Guaraní languages
Guaraní
[top ]
Turkic languages
Altay ,
Azerbaijani ,
Bashkir ,
Chuvash ,
Kazakh ,
Kumyk ,
Kyrgyz ,
Nogai ,
Sakha (Yakut) ,
Tatar ,
Turkish ,
Turkmen ,
Tuvan ,
Uyghur ,
Uzbek
[top ]
Uralic languages
Finnic languages
Estonian ,
Finnish ,
Kven ,
Livonian ,
Livvi-Karelian ,
Veps ,
Võro
Mordvinic languages
Erzya ,
Moksha
Permic languages
Udmurt
Sami languages
Lule Sámi ,
Northern Sámi ,
Southern Sámi
Ugaric languages
Hungarian
[top ]
Uto-Aztecan languages
Comanche ,
Nahuatl ,
Oʼodham ,
Serrano
[top ]
Isolates
Basque
[top ]
Pidgins and Creoles
Bislama ,
Cape Verdean Creole ,
Chabacano de Zamboanga ,
Chabacano de Cavite ,
Haitian Creole ,
Jamaican ,
Mauritian Creole ,
Norfuk ,
Papiamento ,
Réunion Creole ,
Sango ,
Sierra Leone Creole ,
Tok Pisin
[top ]
Constructed languages
Ishirkian ,
Iulji ,
Klingon ,
Laala ,
Lojban ,
Pig Latin ,
Quenya ,
Romániço ,
Solresol ,
Talossan ,
Toki Pona ,
Wightian
[top ]
Index by phrase |
Index by language |
Index by language family |
Multilingual Phrase Finder |
Silly phrases
People who have contributed to this site
Buy phrasebooks from:
Amazon.com ,
Amazon.co.uk
or Amazon.fr
Links
Other collections of phrases in various languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix/
http://www.smartphrase.com
http://www.single-serving.com
http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/dlc/df/useful.html
http://www.travelphrases.info/
http://wikitravel.org/en/Phrasebook
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/
http://www.smartphrase.com
http://www.loecsen.com
http://www.linguanaut.com
http://www.languageshome.com
http://www.foreignlanguagephrases.com
http://www.lingo24.com/knowledge/useful-phrases/
http://worldphrasebook.net
http://smallmarble.org/
Portable PDF phrasebooks - buy one for only $2.99, buy 12 for only $10!
Want to learn a new language ? Learn new languages while playing games
Useful phrases |
Silly phrases |
Numbers |
Numerals |
Colours |
Telling the time |
Dates |
Weather words |
Family words |
Terms of endearment |
Language names |
Country names |
Idioms |
Proverbs |
Tongue twisters |
Signs |
Compass directions |
UDHR |
Tower of Babel |
Songs |
Omniglot |
Seven dwarfs |
Zodiac signs |
Computer parts |
Compass directions |
Animal sounds
[top ]
You can support this site by Buying Me A Coffee , and if you like what you see on this page, you can use the buttons below to share it with people you know.
If you like this site and find it useful, you can support it by making a donation via PayPal or Patreon , or by contributing in other ways . Omniglot is how I make my living.
Note : all links on this site to Amazon.com , Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.fr are affiliate links. This means I earn a commission if you click on any of them and buy something. So by clicking on these links you can help to support this site.
[top ]