Random foreign language phrases

I am a native english speaker. I studied French and German at school, but here in the UK we don't take foreign languages very seriously, and I was never anywhere near fluent in either. But some phrases have stuck in my head:

Vite! Le train depart, je veux descendre aussi!

Il y a eu un accident

On y va!

Wie komme ich am besten zum Bahnhoff bitte?

Es tut mir leid, ich verstehe es nicht

Ein Glas Beer bitte

Do you have any foreign language phrases which come to mind? Or are you multi-lingual? I heard that you know you've mastered a language when you start dreaming in that language.

 

When your with friends, and one friend doesn't come out for drinks. "yeah, nah.. Fuck him"

 

nó có vẻ lớn trong tay bạn

 

From a very old needle point hanging in my place in Vermont...
Der Mensch braucht ein Platzchen und wars noch so Klein von Dem er kann sagen: Sieh hier, das ist mein.

Umlauts are beyond me, hope it translates with a few missing.

 

Immer gerade aus!

 

Dum spiro spero, means "While I breathe, I hope" (Latin)

 

Es ist schön, eine Frau im Haus zu haben, solange sie nicht deine eigene ist.
it's nice to have a wife in the house, as long as she's not your own.
From the opera Die Fledermaus (The Bat)

 

chinga tu madre

 

Clip from an old parody show:

 

callate

cabron

 

That was so funny. Working in central London for 17 years, I came across tourists with their phrase books all the time and sometimes it was impossible not to burst out laughing.
Joke shops also sold phrase books that were fake, changing the translation. One of them was seized by the police after a lot of misunderstandings. "will you direct me to the nearest public toilet", in their language, translated to "would you like to come into the public toilet with me". LMAO

 

Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?



I say this phase periodically at work exactly like in the video, people in my age group laugh, the younger gen. say WTF?

 

That is a lekker Afrikaans expression!

 

Its also applied to other stuff, like weather (lekker weer = nice weather) or people (lekker ding = literally tasty thing but means hot woman).

 

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