November 27th this year is Thanksgiving day in America. What are you thankful for? Me, I am thankful most for family, faith, and freedom. There are many ways to say thank you in different languages. See how many you can use today!
- Arabic (spoken in 22 countries across the Middle East and North Africa): shoukran
- Czech (spoken in the Czech Republic): dékuji
- Danish (spoken in Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Southern Schleswig, a region of Germany on the border of Denmark): tak
- Dutch (spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Aruba and Suriname): dank
- Esperanto (spoken Europe, East Asia, and South America, particularly in the UK, Germany, Brazil, Japan, and the United States): dankon
- Estonian (spoken mainly in Estonia): deküi
- Finnish (spoken mainly in Finland): kiitos
- French (spoken mainly in France, but also in 29 other countries): merci
- German (mainly in Germany but also in Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.: danke
- Greek (spoken mainly in Greece and Cyprus): efchariso
- Hebrew (spoken primarily in Israel): todah
- Hungarian (spoken mainly in Hungary, but also some in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, and Ukraine: koszonom
- Indonesian (spoken mostly in Indonesia): terima kasih
- Italian (spoken officially in Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, and Vatican City): grazie
- Japanese (spoken primarily in Japan): arigato
- Latvian (spoken primarily in Latvia): paldies
- Lithuanian (spoken primarily in Lithuania): tänan
- Norwegian (spoken primarily in Norway): takk
- Polish (spoken mainly in Poland): dziekuje
- Portuguese (spoken chiefly in Brazil, Portugal, and several countries in Africa): obrigado
- Romanian (spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova): multumiri
- Russian (spoken mainly in Russia and other former Soviet republics, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan): spasibo
- Serbo-Croatian (spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia): hvala
- Spanish (spoken in Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Equatorial Guinea): gracias
- Swahili (spoken mainly in East Africa in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. It is also spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia): asante
- Swedish (spoken mainly in Sweden, the Åland Islands and Finland): tack
- Turkish (spoken mainly in Turkey and also in Northern Cyprus): tesekkür
Rick