World Languages Week, February 9th-13th, 2009

For Valentine’s Day, “14 Ways to Say “I Love You” in World Languages:

French: Je t’adore, Je t’aime
German: Ich liebe dich
Italian: Ti amo
Polish: Kocham cie
Spanish: Te adoro, Te amo
Tagalog (dialect in the Philippines):
Mahal kita
Farsi (Persian): Tora dost daram
Japanese: Kimi o ai shiteru
Punjabi: Main tainu pyar karma
Russian: Ya tyebya lyublyu
Yiddish: Ikh hob dikh lib
Turkish: Seni seviyorum
Urdu: Main tumse muhabbat karta hoon
English: I Love You, I Adore You

Transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

–from DuPage Woman Newspaper, January-February 2009