LILT Languages for interest, learning, travel WILL World International Language Lovers

 The short term advantage of being bilingual is that it gives you confidence in other countries. Imagine the world is a giant jigsaw puzzle. Each time you learn a few words of another language, you are adding a new country to your list of places where I understand and am understood. Long term, being bilingual can postpone Alzheimer's for five years. That is wonderful for the individual and their family. With an ageing population in much of the world, this has to make life easier, and save money for families and governments. Useful Websites https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club Please share links to your favourite posts. And follow me on this blog.

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Albanian -  Përshëndetje   American - hi Belarusian - добры дзень dobry dzień Bengali - হ্যালো Hyālō Bosnian - zdravo Bulgarian -  Здравейте Zdraveĭte Catalan - hola - the same as the Spanish Chinese (simplified for mainland China) -  你好 Nǐ hǎo 你好 Nǐ hǎo (traditional - the same in Taiwan and Hong Kong) Corsican - hello = salutu bonghjornu - good afternoon ciao - bye Croatian - zdravo Czech - ahoj (according to Google translate sounds, a as in at, hoy, as in joy) Danish - hej (pronounced hi) Dutch - Hallo Esperanto - saluton French - bonjour (literally good day) Hebrew - שלום shalom (reading the Hebrew right to left, with the final m) Indian - namaste Italian - ciao Japanese - konnichiwa Portuguese -  Which country says hello as Ola? Olá is the simplest, safest way to say “hello” in  Portuguese, both European and Brazilan . It sounds like the Spanish hola, except with hola the first syllable is stressed (OH-la), but with olá you stress the second sylla...

  WILL short for World International Language Lovers is a new club starting ASAP. We are looking for supporters to attend a Zoom demo meeting rehearsal. This Thursday Sept 14 at 8.15 pm Singapore time. Contact sponsor and President Angela Lansbury. Or Mentor and VPE Carolyn Street DTM Can you give a five minute speech on the joys and challenges of learning another language. Please tell your multilingual friends. Angela +65 9627 6046 Carolyn +65 82851319 Zoom Link  585 559 0657 no passcode Link to the Supporters' Group https://chat.whatsapp.com/DuAlsgCn0NU4MEWaSZ9jJi  This is the message which we composed. I sent it to several Toastmasters International speakers' training clubs. INTRODUCTION BY THE PRESIDENT TO BE, Angela Lansbury CC CL PM5 EH5 Dictionary I have been collecting word lists for years, in my dictionary, words based on Latin and Greek Hebrew, French and German, Spanis, Italian and Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese, with a word or two from Romanian, Swahili and ...