I love you - How to say those magic words   by Alix Williams

Scared to say those three little words - notoriously the three most difficult words in the English language? So why not try saying them in someone else's language?

Here, for the shy or tongue-tied, is how to say 'I love you ' in just a selection of languages from across the world...

Arabic,  Ana Behibak (to a male); Ana Behibek (to a female)

Binary code,  01101001001000000110110001101111011101100110010100     100000011110010110111101110101

Braille,  : :..:| ..:| |..-.. .::":.., :.:;

Chinese,  Gwa ai li (Amoy) Ngo oi nei (Cantonese)

Danish,  Jeg elsker dig

Dutch,  Ik hou van je

Elvish,  Amin mela lle

Esperanto,  Mi amas vin

French,  J'taime

Gaelic (Scottish),  The gradh agam ort

Gaelic (Irish),  t'a gr'a agam dhuit

German,  Ich liebe dich

Greek,  S'agapo

Hindi,  Mai tumaha pyar karta hu

Italian,  Ti amo

Japanese,  Aishite imasu

Klingon,  qamuSHa'

Latin,  Te amo

Morse,  ∙∙ / ∙-∙∙ - - - ∙∙∙- ∙ / -∙- - - - - ∙∙-

Polish,  Kocham cie

Portuguese,  Eu te amo

Russian,  Ya lyublyu tebya

Spanish,  Te amo

Txt SMS message,  ILUVU

Welsh,  'Rwy'n dy garu di

Yiddish,  Ikh hob dikh lib

So go on - take a deep breath and give it a go this Valentine's Day!

Sources
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/romance-faq/part3/section-1.html http://www.links2love.com/i_love_you_languages.htm Ltl bk of luv txt. Michael O'Mara Books Limited. Schott B. Schott's Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury Books, 2002.

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