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Tour 8 · Languages

Hello, Hello, Hello

There are about 7,000 languages on Earth. Here's how to say "hello" in twelve of them.

Twelve ways to say hi 👋

Tap a card to read the word out loud. Some of them you already know — Vietnamese is your first language, English is your school language. The rest are languages you've heard on trips.

🇻🇳
Xin chào
"sin chow"
Vietnamese
🇬🇧
Hello
"hel-lo"
English
🇫🇷
Bonjour
"bon-zhoor"
French
🇪🇸
Hola
"oh-la"
Spanish
🇮🇹
Ciao
"chow"
Italian
🇩🇪
Hallo
"hah-lo"
German
🇯🇵
こんにちは
"kon-ni-chi-wa"
Japanese
🇰🇷
안녕
"an-nyong"
Korean
🇨🇳
你好
"nee-how"
Mandarin
🇹🇭
สวัสดี
"sa-wat-dee"
Thai
🇮🇳
नमस्ते
"na-mas-tay"
Hindi
🇸🇦
مرحبا
"mar-ha-ba"
Arabic

Languages by the numbers 🌐

7,000
languages alive today
1.5b
English speakers
1.1b
Mandarin speakers
85m
Vietnamese speakers

Every two weeks, somewhere in the world, the last person who speaks an old language passes away — and that language goes with them. Languages are like animals: some are common, some are very rare, and once they're gone they're gone.

The Big Idea

Two heads are better 🧠🧠

You speak two languages already — Vietnamese and English. People who speak two languages aren't just twice as good at chatting; their brains literally work differently. Bilingual kids tend to be better at switching between tasks, focusing in noisy rooms, and seeing the world from another person's view.

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