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Please and thank you

S'il vous plait et merci

And in ASL but that dont translate to text too well.

1. Merican. Gods language and the best language. You know I speak better Merican that anyone ever did. The best. Everyone says it. One time I was talking to Elon. I call him fuck boy the cum dumpster. No one treats me like he does. But, he was telling me you speak the best Merican. No one can talk as good as you do. Everyone says it. Maybe I should write a book about how good my English is. It would be the most huge book ever.

/s

i can say thank you in more languages than i can say please in.

perhaps that says something about me

Obligado

Dankeschön

Merci Beaucop

Thank you

Gracias

Domo Arigato (only in latin type, i have no chance of reading/spelling anything in Kanji)

In the order I learned them:

• 🇷🇴 Romanian: Vă rog / Mulțumesc (native)

• 🇨🇵 French: S'il-vous-plaît / Merci

• 🇬🇧 English: Please / Thank you

• 🇪🇦 Spanish: Por favor / Gracias

• 🇯🇵 Japanese: Onegai / Arigato

• 🇨🇳 Mandarin: Qing / Xiè xie

• 🇮🇹 Italian: Per favore / Grazie

• 🇩🇪 German: Bitte / Danke

• 🇷🇺 Russian: Pozhalusta / Spasiba

I know some, I guess, hope I do not butcher them:

German(native): Bitte/ Danke (sehr) or Vielen Dank,

English: please/ thank you (very much),

Japanese: どうぞ or おねがいします or ください/ (どうも)ありがとう(ございます) (Which is douzo (when you offer someone something, I think, onegaishimasu/kudasai (if you want something or someone to do something, which is following the request.)/ (domo)arigatou(gozaimasu),

Norwegian: vær så snill / (tusen) takk,
(Which is like "Sei so gut/lieb"/ "Tausend Dank" in German.),

Romanian: vă rog or te rog (formal/informal)/ mulțumesc ((foarte) mult) or mersi (mult) (ă is a short a, I guess and ț is like the ts from "its", or a German z)

French: s'il vous plait (that one I had to look up on how to write)/ merci

Polish: proszę (bardzo)/ dzięki or dziękuję (bardzo) (Like proshe/ djenki/djenkuje)(ę is nasalized)

Portuguese: faz favor or por favor/ obrigado or obrigada (male/female) (o is spoken like an u) (I do not know much Portuguese (like French and Polish), in my book (European Portuguese faz favor and por favor are used, but I do not know the differences.)

English and Japanese (I don't speak much Japanese at all but I know these specific word!)

2 English and German

Please and thank you

Te rog si multumesc

Bitte und danke

I dont know how to explain how to say a word to someone if they dont speak romanian

I can only speak three but I really used to try to learn some others but suck at it. I praise people who can learn grammatically challenging languages

Swedish, German, English, Spanish,

Only English. The words are entirely different in the other languages I know.

Estonian: Palun / Aitäh

English: Please / Thank you

Define language… Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, English, French, German, BHS (Bosnian Croatian, Serbian), Esperanto, Czech, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish… i think that’s it.

Mostly thanks because that's the only word I learned when I'm visiting.

obrigado, obrigada - Portuguese Bitte/Danke - Deutsch dack - Dutch Gratzi - Italian Por favor/Gracias - Spanish Takk - norge Merci - French 不好意思。/ 謝謝 - Chinese ありがとう - Japanese Oi cunt / thank ye cunt

Do programming languages count? :)

Here's Go:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Please and Thank You")
}

Bissäguet, Merci (Swiss German)
Bitte, Danke (German)
Please, thank you (English)
S'il vous plait, merci (French)
Par favore, grazie (Italian)
Bonvolu, dankon (Esperanto)
Onegaishimasu, Arigatougozaimasu (Japanese)

Two languages. English and Maori.

Thank you in Maori is "kia ora" (key-ah or-ah, but mostly said more like k-your-ah). Literally translates to "be well", kia meaning be, ora meaning life/wellness.

Please in Maori is a bit less clear. There is the word "koa" (I don't know how to phonetically write it, but all the letters are pronounced the same as above), but that's a concept that came with pakeha (European settlers). Before that, it was more about the tone of the request.

Edit: actually I do know more, but English and Maori are the two main languages I know any of.

"Please" and "thank you". English.

(Pleez ahnd thank yehw)

"Oes gwelwch chi'n dda" ac "diolch". Welsh/Cymraeg.

(Oys gwel ook kheen thza ak deeolkh)

"Por favor" y "gracías". Spanish/español.

(Pour fah vour ee gras ee AHS)