The document shares how the character "Tank" teaches about saying "hello" in different languages. It provides a table with the word for hello in various languages along with the pronunciation. Tank notes that with some effort to learn greetings in other languages, one can show courtesy when meeting people from other parts of the world. The document promotes cultural understanding and being able to communicate with others in their native tongue.

1. “TANK”
Says “Hello” in Different
Languages
“TANK” shares how to say hello to people from
different countries.
Author/Activist: Valerie Cheers-Brown
Illustrations by: CA

2. Language Word Pronunciation
English Hello he-loh, huh-, hel-oh

3. Language Word Pronunciation
ARABIC Al Salaam a’alaykum Ahl sah-LAHM ah ah-LAY-koom
ARMENIAN Barev Bar-ev

4. BULGARIAN Zdraveite ZZ–DRA–veyt
CANTONESE Nei Hou Nay Hoe
CHEROKEE Oh-see-YOH

5. CROATIAN Bok BOHK
CZECH Dobry den DO-bry-den
DANISH Goddag Go dah

6. DUTCH Hallo Hal-low
FRENCH Bonjour Bohn-ZHOOR

7. GERMAN Guten Tag GOOT-en-Tahk
GREEK Kalimera Kah-lee-MEH-rah

8. HAWAIIAN Aloha Ah-LOH-hah
HEBREW Shalom Sha-LOHM
HINDI Namaste Nah-mah-STAY

9. HUNGARIAN Szia ZEE-yah
ICELANDIC Hallo Hal-lo

10. INDONESIAN Assalamu alai kum Ahl sah-LAHM ah-LAY-koom

11. Irish Dia Duit Pronounced: Dee-a-g

12. ITALIAN Buon giorno Bwohn JOR-noh

13. JAPANESE Konnichiwa Kon – NEE - chee wah
It means "Hello" in Japanese, but I can also mean "Good afternoon."
(There are other ways to say "Good morning" & "Good night" but I'm pretty
sure "Konichiwa" can be used as a sort of catch all phrase for "Hello.")
Konnichiwa means Hello or Good afternoon
Ohayou means Good morning or you could say Ohayou gozaimasu to make
it formal
Konbanwa means Good evening
Sayonara means Goodbye
And Oyasuminasai means Good night
あなた 男 おそらく いけない 知っている どのような イム と言って 限り あなた
さ 日本 または あなた 知っている ザ 言語 も

14. KOREAN Annyong ha shimnikka An-YOH-HAShim-ni-kah
LITHUANIAN Labas Lah – bahs

15. MANDARIN Ni Hao Knee How
MOHAWK Sekoh SHE – goh
NAVAJO Ya at eeh YAH-AHT-AY
PERSIAN Selam She – lam

16. POLISH Czesc Chesht
PORTUGESE Oi Oy
ROMANIAN Buna ziua BOO – nuh – ZEE – wa

17. RUSSIAN Zdraustvuite ZzDRAST – VOYT – yah
SERBIAN Zdravo ZDRAD – vo
SLOVAK Dobry den Dobree – den

18. SPANISH Hola OH – la
SWAHILI Jambo JAM – bo
SWEDISH God dag Goo dag

19. UKRAINIAN Pryvit Pri – veet

20. TANK says “With a little thinking and using
our brain, we can remember these greetings
the next time we meet someone from that
country.”

22. Just in case he meets people from another land
or country, he can say hello.

23. Languages of the World (Number of Countries)

24. Languages of the World (Speakers)

25. How can knowing
different languages help
us?

26. Only by keeping ourselves
culturally and mentally robust
through variability could we hope
to help those in severe
situations here and now, and
you-know-where-and-when.

27. “Tank” the dinosaur lived for helping people and he took the people to a
place where they learned how to say hello in many different languages.

28. The End