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12 key phrases to learn any language.
Following are Tim's 12 key phrases for learning a new language. You can use the table for your own learning purposes. Simply enter the translations for each new language you wish to learn. Tim recommends getting the translations from a native speaker. (We'll provide Google in the meantime.)

Select a language to translate:

English Phrase
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The apple is red.
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It is John's apple.
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I give John the apple.
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We give him the apple.
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He gives it to John.
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She gives it to him.
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Is the apple red?
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The apples are red.
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I must give it to him.
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I want to give it to her.
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I'm going to know tomorrow.
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I can't eat the apple.
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Bonus: I have eaten the apple.
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Languages
Language
Abbreviation
Afrikaans
af
Albanian
sq
Amharic
am
Arabic
ar
Armenian
hy
Azerbaijani
az
Basque
eu
Belarusian
be
Bengali
bn
Bosnian
bs
Bulgarian
bg
Catalan
ca
Cebuano
ceb
Chinese (Simplified)
zh-CN
Chinese (Traditional)
zh-TW
Corsican
co
Croatian
hr
Czech
cs
Danish
da
Dutch
nl
Esperanto
eo
Estonian
et
Finnish
fi
French
fr
Frisian
fy
Galician
gl
Georgian
ka
German
de
Greek
el
Gujarati
gu
Haitian Creole
ht
Hausa
ha
Hawaiian
haw
Hebrew
he
Hindi
hi
Hmong
hmn
Hungarian
hu
Icelandic
is
Igbo
ig
Indonesian
id
Irish
ga
Italian
it
Japanese
ja
Javanese
jw
Kannada
kn
Kazakh
kk
Khmer
km
Korean
ko
Kurdish
ku
Kyrgyz
ky
Lao
lo
Latin
la
Latvian
lv
Lithuanian
lt
Luxembourgish
lb
Macedonian
mk
Malagasy
mg
Malay
ms
Malayalam
ml
Maltese
mt
Maori
mi
Marathi
mr
Mongolian
mn
Myanmar (Burmese)
my
Nepali
ne
Norwegian
no
Nyanja (Chichewa)
ny
Pashto
ps
Persian
fa
Polish
pl
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil)
pt
Punjabi
pa
Romanian
ro
Russian
ru
Samoan
sm
Scots Gaelic
gd
Serbian
sr
Sesotho
st
Shona
sn
Sindhi
sd
Sinhala (Sinhalese)
si
Slovak
sk
Slovenian
sl
Somali
so
Spanish
es
Sundanese
su
Swahili
sw
Swedish
sv
Tagalog (Filipino)
tl
Tajik
tg
Tamil
ta
Telugu
te
Thai
th
Turkish
tr
Ukrainian
uk
Urdu
ur
Uzbek
uz
Vietnamese
vi
Welsh
cy
Xhosa
xh
Yiddish
yi
Yoruba
yo
Zulu
zu
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