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Monox D. I-Fly
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 Message 1 of 17
11 March 2014 at 1:36pm | IP Logged 
Hey everyone, I want to ask: How to support your friends to raise their spirit in your language (or any others that you know)?
In my language, it is "Semangat!" (Indonesia).

Japan: Ganbatte!
Korea: Hwaiting!
German: Begeisterung!
Dutch: Houd moed!
Spain: iManten el spiritu!
Tagalog: Laban lang!
Vietnam: Co len!
Hebrew: Shomar roo'ach!

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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Bao
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 Message 2 of 17
11 March 2014 at 2:30pm | IP Logged 
German: Begeisterung!

Nope.
It depends on the situation. But Begeisterung! ... sounds like a really sarcastic remark when seeing somebody else's frustration.

I might say:
Kopf hoch! Das wird schon wieder.
Nicht aufgeben!
Du schaffst das!
... but, usually I'd assume that the other person is already struggling hard and when they're voicing or showing their frustration it's for a reason and they need somebody to listen and take them seriously, and not some commonplaces to make them shut up.
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Monox D. I-Fly
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 Message 3 of 17
11 March 2014 at 3:55pm | IP Logged 
Bao wrote:
German: Begeisterung!

Nope.
It depends on the situation. But Begeisterung! ... sounds like a really sarcastic remark when seeing somebody else's frustration.

I might say:
Kopf hoch! Das wird schon wieder.
Nicht aufgeben!
Du schaffst das!
... but, usually I'd assume that the other person is already struggling hard and when they're voicing or showing their frustration it's for a reason and they need somebody to listen and take them seriously, and not some commonplaces to make them shut up.


Thanks for the input.
Do you bother to translate those words to English, please? :)
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 Message 4 of 17
11 March 2014 at 7:24pm | IP Logged 
Nice topic, that's one way to keep you motivated!

I notice you have 화이팅 for Korean. While this is definitely spot on, maybe we could
also add '힘내' [Heemnae, or whatever the romanization comes out to], since it is a pure
Korean expression, and not a loanword like hwaiting or Japanese's whaito.
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Bao
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 Message 5 of 17
11 March 2014 at 8:33pm | IP Logged 
Oops. Somehow I seem to have believed that anyone who understands English should also understand German.

Kopf hoch! Das wird schon wieder.
Hold your head up high, it's gonna be alright.

Nicht aufgeben!
Don't give up!

Du schaffst das!
You'll make it!



Edited by Bao on 11 March 2014 at 8:35pm

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 Message 6 of 17
11 March 2014 at 9:26pm | IP Logged 
Mandarin: 加油
Spanish: ¡Ánimo!
Catalan: Ànim!
Euskara: Aupa!
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Monox D. I-Fly
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 Message 7 of 17
12 March 2014 at 4:06am | IP Logged 
Leurre wrote:
Nice topic, that's one way to keep you motivated!

I notice you have 화이팅 for Korean. While this is definitely spot on, maybe we could
also add '힘내' [Heemnae, or whatever the romanization comes out to], since it is a pure
Korean expression, and not a loanword like hwaiting or Japanese's whaito.

Thank you. :) And even "Whaito" in Japan is also a loanword from "Fight".

Diglot wrote:
Oops. Somehow I seem to have believed that anyone who understands English should also understand German.

Kopf hoch! Das wird schon wieder.
Hold your head up high, it's gonna be alright.

Nicht aufgeben!
Don't give up!

Du schaffst das!
You'll make it!

Sorry, I'm not even a native English speaker. Thank you for the corrections, though. :)


Crush wrote:
Mandarin: 加油
Spanish: ¡Ánimo!
Catalan: Ànim!
Euskara: Aupa!

Whose languages are Catalan and Euskara? And how to read the Mandarin one?
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 Message 8 of 17
12 March 2014 at 5:47am | IP Logged 
Monox D. I-Fly wrote:




Crush wrote:
Mandarin: 加油

And how to read the Mandarin one?


I believe the Pinyin for the Mandarin one is: Jiāyóu


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