Posted Aug 3, 1999 by Ginger The Feisty
What do the numbers mean in the cells after the language? Are these the brownie points you can earn?
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Posted Aug 16, 1999 by Peter Hilton
Oops - I forgot to mention that the numbers are the number of native speakers of the language, in millions (source: Languages of the World, Kenneth Katzner).
This number is, of course, inversely proportional to how many brownie points you get for knowing all of the phrases in that language. However, you do get more brownie points if there are lots of native speakers of your own mother tongue.
This means that native English speakers get lots of brownie points, but native Dutch speakers get hardly any for learning English because they seem to do that without prompting.
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Posted Aug 16, 1999 by Ginger The Feisty
I've just done an italian course and our Italian teachers told us that it is more common to use chin chin when drinking rather than Salute! Just thought you might want to include it as an option!
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Posted Aug 16, 1999 by Peter Hilton
Thanks - if it's more common then that's what I want.
'Chin chin' works in France as well - it's an onomatopoeic for the sound the glasses make, as if we said 'clink clink' in English (but then that would sound stupid  ).
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Posted Aug 16, 1999 by Ginger The Feisty
I'll look through my notes and let you know if there are any other phrases that might be of use to you. One off the tope of my head is piacere which means pleased to meet you.
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Posted Dec 15, 1999 by Sbonk
There is a few spelling errors in the danish part:
"You're welcome" is "velbekomme", with a k.
"Cheers" is spelled like in Norwegian, "skål".
Just thought you might want to know...
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Posted Jan 20, 2000 by Peter Hilton
mange tak
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Posted Jan 20, 2000 by Ginger The Feisty
Another thing I have noticed is you have the words for Hi! but not the ones for 'Bye! An ommission that might need correction, I feel! Of course in Italian it's easy because it is the same word!
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