[DigitalNomad]

One thing I’ve noticed that helps me throughout my travels is learning a short saying in the language of the girl you are going for. It’s a little hack that gets you in the door and the girl laughing early. For example, the ones I use commonly are the following, disregard spelling, this is how they are pronounced:

Dutch:
Hey lekkerding (hey sexy.. P.S. Noke-in in da coke-in (sex in the kitchen) is way overused, this is way more effect)

Estonian:
Turvee soola, sex ah moola (health for you, sex for me)

Swiss:
To beesh mega hoopsh (you are pretty)

Swedish:
Du har vackra Aragon (you have pretty eyes)

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Anybody have anything like this they have found effective? At a minimum I like to know cheers in most languages, but I find sayings like the above really helpful.

[NewMeta]

Just translate: shut up and make me a sandwich

to any language. To this day i still make even the most feminist/liberal leaning people laugh with it.

[Jagnum]

(05-23-2018 09:30 AM)DigitalNomad Wrote:  

One thing I’ve noticed that helps me throughout my travels is learning a short saying in the language of the girl you are going for. It’s a little hack that gets you in the door and the girl laughing early. For example, the ones I use commonly are the following, disregard spelling, this is how they are pronounced:

Dutch:
Hey lekkerding (hey sexy.. P.S. Noke-in in da coke-in (sex in the kitchen) is way overused, this is way more effect)

Estonian:
Turvee soola, sex ah moola (health for you, sex for me)

Swiss:
To beesh mega hoopsh (you are pretty)

Swedish:
Du har vackra Aragon (you have pretty eyes)

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Anybody have anything like this they have found effective? At a minimum I like to know cheers in most languages, but I find sayings like the above really helpful.

These are good. I agree these short phrases help spice up a conversation and make things more flirty beyond the "where are you from" and "what are you doing here" questions that one always gets. (The answer to the second one is "to find a Dutch girlfriend".)

What's the Estonian one supposed to mean?

Also Swiss isn't a language. Looks like German.

[gework]

Serbian:

Govori srpski da te ceo svet razume.

"He speaks Serbian so the whole world understands."

This usually makes them laugh.

[Bikal]

(05-25-2018 02:10 PM)Jagnum Wrote:  

(05-23-2018 09:30 AM)DigitalNomad Wrote:  

Swiss:
To beesh mega hoopsh (you are pretty)

Also Swiss isn't a language. Looks like German.

I believe it's Romansh, it most certainly isn't German although I can't speak for the accuracy as I don't speak Romansh however there are roughly 70k speakers in Switzerland so it could be a good opener.

[kuqezi]

Albanian: "Te henksha syte"

Literally means I wanna eat your eyes, but it's used as a phrase to make a compliment to a girl that has beautiful eyes.

[RIslander]

Approach a Japanese girl and say "boku no chimpo chisaii desu". It means hey what's up.

[lonewolf1992]

"Que mas, que me cuentas"

"Qiubo pués"

"y ese milagro?"

[DigitalNomad]

(05-25-2018 02:10 PM)Jagnum Wrote:  

What's the Estonian one supposed to mean?

Also Swiss isn't a language. Looks like German.

The estonian one you say in place of cheers, it'll make any estonian girl laugh though, it's a pretty common saying there.

Swiss-German is what the German part of Switzerland speaks, but they write in German. It's similar, and they can understand German, but Germans would have trouble understanding Swiss-German.

[godzilla]

"Me gusta la papaya"

No confirmation if that works.

[Ringo]

(05-25-2018 03:32 PM)Bikal Wrote:  

(05-25-2018 02:10 PM)Jagnum Wrote:  

(05-23-2018 09:30 AM)DigitalNomad Wrote:  

Swiss:
To beesh mega hoopsh (you are pretty)

Also Swiss isn't a language. Looks like German.

I believe it's Romansh, it most certainly isn't German although I can't speak for the accuracy as I don't speak Romansh however there are roughly 70k speakers in Switzerland so it could be a good opener.

It's not romanisch. He wrote what I presume to be the fonetical version of "Du bist mega huebsch", which is german, but in swiss-german dialect (bist = german, bisch = swiss).

Sounds cute if you play it right, but I think a better option would be: "Du bist so geil" - geil can mean cool/awesome or beautiful/hot. You're saying "you are so awesome/hot". Depends on your tone and demeanor. I like the ambiguity - I've used it before and girls were like "Hmmm what kind of "geil" do you mean...".

A fun one I always use with my friends is "Du bist die scheisse!" - literally, "you're the shit". Gotta use it with excitement though, or it can sound like you're calling someone a piece of shit.

Sidenote: romanisch is Latin language, it doesn't sound nor is structured like German. Recently I had the chance to talk to a native speaker and we have a fun chat with him speaking Romanisch and me speaking Portuguese. We found that we could understand one another without too much effort, much like with Italian or Spanish.

[Ringo]

(05-26-2018 11:38 AM)Ringo Wrote:  

"Du bist so geil"

In Brazilian Portuguese you could say:
- "Você é muito louco (guy)/louca (girl)" - You're so crazy
- "Você é muito foda" - You're so awesome/unbelievable. "Foda" is very similar to "geil", but it's a cuss ("foder" means to fuck).

Other expressions that might work coming from a gringo:
- "Acho que estou apaixonado." - I think I'm in love.
- "Moça, casa comigo!" - Miss, marry me!

[Alpha_Romeo]

Entschuldigung... Gibt es eine Tierhandlung in der Nähe?