Thank you in Persian: سپاسگزارم (Sepaas gozaaram).Thank you in Korean: 감사합니다 (Gamsahabnida).Thank you in Japanese: ありがとうございます (Arigatō gozaimasu).Thank you in Hindi: धन्यवाद (Dhanyavaad).Thank you in Greek: Ευχαριστώ (Efcharistó).Thank you in Bulgarian: Благодаря (Blagodarya).Thank you in Arabic: شكرا لك ( “Shukran lak” for males “Shukran laki” for females).That doesn’t sound that hard to do, isn’t it? How to say “thank you” in 30 languages If you travel to a foreign country, making that good first impression may mean to say “thank you” in Spanish (“gracias”). That’s it! 30 seconds for an impression that may last a lifetime.

We only need 30 seconds to make a full semiotic analysis of someone we’ve just met.

So you have to make it count from the first try. As Will Rogers (American stage and motion picture actor) once said: “You never get a second chance to make a first impression”. Expressing your gratitude is as important as expressing your love.īesides, this has everything to do with first impressions. How to say “thank you” in different languages should probably be included in students’ curricula at school. Common sense translates the same in all languages.

It doesn’t matter if you are a French man in Romania or an American woman in Sweden. Have you ever thought about how important it is to be polite? This is not a matter of culture, but rather a matter of international common sense.