It’s been a long Friday. Did lots today, and I’m ready to pass out. Roll on, long weekend! It’s Family Day on Monday.
This phone pic is an inside joke which few people will get, but you may find these phrases helpful if you’re looking for the bathroom in Europe [pinched from Wikihow]:
- Austrian = “WC, Bitte?” (Vay-say, bit-ay?) which means “water closet, please?”
- Bulgarian = [see Wikihow article for full language script] (“Kade e banyata?”)
- Croatian= Oprostite, gdje je kupaonica? (j is pronounced y)
- Czech = Prosim Vas, Kde jsou toalety?
- Danish = Undskyld mig, hvor er badeværelset/toilettet? (oon-skool-MYE, voa eh bay-the-VAY-rell-seh / TOY-lett-eh?)
- Dutch = Pardon, waar is de W.C. (“way say”)?
- English (British) = Excuse me, where is the toilet/lou/lavatory?
- Esperanto = Pardonon, kie estas la banejo? (par-DOH-nohn, KEY-eh ESS-tahs la bahn-EY-yo?)
- Estonian = Vabandage, kus on tualett?
- French = pardon, où sont les toilettes? (pahr-DAW, oo saw lay twah-LETT?)
- Gaelic (Irish) = Ca bhfuil an leithreas?
- German = Wo ist die Toilette, bitte? (Vo ist dee toy-LETT-uh, BIT-uh?)
- Greek = Parakalo, pou ine i tualetta? [see Wikihow article for full language script]
- Hungarian= Elnézést, hol (van) a vécé? [Ell-ney-zey-sht, hole vawn aw vay-tsay?]
- Icelandic = Hvar er salernið / klósettið? (Kvar er sal-erdnith / clow-set-ith? pronounce ‘th’ like in ‘them’)
- Italian = Mi scusi, dov’è il bagno?
- Latvian = Atvainojiet (sorry), kur ir tualete (Where is bathroom?
- Lithuanian = Atsiprašau (excuse me), kur yra tualetas?
- Maltese = Fejn qieg?ed it-toilet? [Fe-in qee-ed it toilet]
- Neapolitan (Southwestern Italy) = scusat’, arò stà ‘o cesso?
- Norwegian = Unnskyld meg,(pronounced oon-shyl) hvor er doen/toalettet (No pronunceation of the ‘t’ at the end of toalette’t', doen is slang said: doo-uhn) ?
- Polish = Przepraszam, gdzie jest toaleta?
- Portuguese = Por favor, onde é a casa-de-banho?
- Romanian = Unde este toaleta, va rog? (Oon-day yeh twa-letta, vuh rog?)
- Russian = [see Wikihow article for full language script] (Skazhite pozhalusta, gde toalet?) listen
- Serbian = Izvinite, gde je kupatilo?
- Sinhalese (Sri Lankan) = Naana kaamaraya koheda?
- Slovak = Prosím vás, kde sú toalety?
- Slovene = Oprostite, kje je kopalnica/straniš?e? (Kopalnica = bathroom, straniš?e = toilet/rest room)
- Swedish = Ursäkta mig (excuse me), var finns toaletten? (uhr-SHEHK-ta mey, var fins toa-letten?)
- Spanish (Catalan) = On és el lavabo?
- Ukrainian = [see Wikihow article for full language script] (Vybachte, de tualet?)
- Welsh = Ble mae`r ty bach? (bleh MY-r Tee bach?)
Pronouncing all that makes my brain hurt. STOP! I’m taking a cup along!