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Saying 'I Love You' Around the World

 

Today's snack: There are two things you can find all over the world: love and cheese. Well, maybe there are a few more things than just those two. But they're good! So today, have some mozzarella cheese sticks and dream of your one true love, out there somewhere - maybe halfway around the world, and maybe also eating cheese at this very moment!

 

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Supplies:

 

A globe or world map

 

A printout of this Treat

 

Colored cardstock or other nice paper, and markers

 

 

            Have fun pronouncing all the different ways to say "I love you" in all these different languages. Use the globe, a map, encyclopedias or a search engine to locate all these countries, or where these "people groups" live or lived.

 

Choose a favorite, and write it on a separate piece of paper in special handwriting, adding colorful flourishes and special touches. Keep it to look at every time you ponder what makes the world go 'round - love!

 

 

English - I love you


Afrikaans - Ek het jou life

 

Albanian - Te dua


Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)


Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)


Armenian - Yes kez sirumem


Bambara - M'bi fe


Bengali - Ami tomake bhalobashi (pronounced: Amee toe-ma-kee bhalo-bashee)


Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu


Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo


Bulgarian - Obicham te


Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah


Catalan - T'estimo


Cherokee - Tsi ge yu i


Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse


Chichewa - Ndimakukonda


Chinese
Cantonese - Ngo oiy ney a

 
Mandarin - Wo ai ni


Comanche - U kamakutu nu

 (pronounced oo----ka-ma-koo-too-----nu)


Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)


Cree - Kisakihitin


Creol - Mi aime jou


Croatian - Volim te


Czech - Miluji te


Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig


Dutch - Ik hou van jou


Elvish - Amin mela lle (from The Lord of The Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien)


Esperanto - Mi amas vin


Estonian - Ma armastan sind

Ethiopian - Afgreki'


Faroese - Eg elski teg


Farsi - Doset daram


Filipino - Mahal kita


Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua


French - Je t'aime, Je t'adore


Frisian - Ik hald fan dy


Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort


Georgian - Mikvarhar


German - Ich liebe dich


Greek - S'agapo


Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo


Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw


Hawaiian - Aloha Au Ia`oe


Hebrew
To female - "ani ohev otach" (said by male) "ohevet Otach" (said by female)
To male - "ani ohev otcha" (said by male) "Ohevet ot'cha" (said by female)


Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw


Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae


Hmong - Kuv hlub koj


Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta


Hungarian - Szeretlek


Icelandic - Eg elska tig


Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw


Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu


Inuit - Negligevapse


Irish - Taim i' ngra leat


Italian - Ti amo


Japanese - Aishiteru or Anata ga daisuki desu


Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene


Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka


Kiswahili - Nakupenda


Konkani - Tu magel moga cho


Korean - Sarang Heyo or Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida


Latin - Te amo


Latvian - Es tevi miilu


Lebanese - Bahibak


Lithuanian - Tave myliu


Luxembourgeois - Ech hun dech gaer


Macedonian - Te Sakam


Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu


Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu


Maltese - Inhobbok


Marathi - Me tula prem karto


Mohawk - Kanbhik


Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik


Nahuatl - Ni mits neki


Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni


Ndebele - Niyakutanda


Norwegian
Bokmaal - Jeg elsker deg
Nyonrsk - Eg elskar deg


Pandacan - Syota na kita!!


Pangasinan - Inaru Taka

 

Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo


Persian - Doo-set daaram


Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay


Polish - Kocham Ciebie


Portuguese - Eu te amo


Romanian - Te iubesc


Russian - Ya tebya liubliu


Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort


Serbian - Volim te


Setswana - Ke a go rata


Sign Language - ,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing 'I Love You')


Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan


Sioux - Techihhila


Slovak - Lu`bim ta


Slovenian - Ljubim te


Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo


Swahili - Ninapenda wewe


Swedish - Jag alskar dig


Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di


Surinam - Mi lobi joe


Tagalog - Mahal kita


Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li


Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe


Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen


Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu


Thai
To female - Phom rak khun
To male - Chan rak khun
Informal - Rak te

 
Tunisian - Ha eh bak


Turkish - Seni Seviyorum


Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu


Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo


Vietnamese
To female - Anh ye^u em
To male - Em ye^u anh


Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu di  

 
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh


Yoruba - Mo ni fe


Zazi - Ezhele hezdege


Zuni - Tom ho' ichema

 

By Susan Darst Williams • www.AfterSchoolTreats.com • Global Education 03 © 2009

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