Happy Birthday

English:
Happy Birthday

Spanish:
Feliz Cumpleaños

Improvements to this Blog

When I began this blog, I wanted to cure monolingualism with translations in ASL, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Swahili. For the basic words, this was fairly easy to do since those translations are available almost anywhere on the Web. However, finding the translations in the languages became more difficult. Therefore, I will continue this blog with postings in ASL (as available), English and Spanish. I am fluent in both English and Spanish so the blog postings will be more frequent and not delayed by the "research process" as it was when having to find the other languages.

I hope this helps with the frequency of posts.

Monolingualism can be cured!

drinking water*

American Sign Language:
drink http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/D/W1008.htm
water http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/W/W4425.htm

English:
drinking water

French:
l'eau portable

Italian:
l'acqua potabile
l'acqua da bere

Spanish:
agua potable

Swahili:

cold water*

American Sign Language:
cold http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/C/W0669.htm
water http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/W/W4425.htm

English:
cold water

French:
l'eau froide

Italian:
l'acqua fredda

Spanish:
agua frío

Swahili:

hot water*

American Sign Language:
hot http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/H/W1667.htm
water http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/W/W4425.htm

English:
hot water

French:
l'eau chaud

Italian:
l'acqua calda

Spanish:
agua caliente

Swahili:

tap*

American Sign Language:


English:
tap

French:
un robinet

Italian:
il rubinetto

Spanish:
el grifo

Swahili:
bulula

bathroom

American Sign Language:
restroom http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/R/W3349.htm

English:
bathroom

French:
la salle de bain

Italian:
la stanza da bagno

Spanish:
el cuarto de baño

Swahili:
bafu

toilets

American Sign Language:
toilet http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/T/W4176.htm

English:
toilet

French:
les toilettes

Italian:
i servizi igienici

Spanish:
los servicios

Swahili:
choo

washbasin (sink)*

American Sign Language:


English:
washbasin
sink

French:
un lavabo

Italian:
il lavandino

Spanish:
el lavabo

Swahili:
karai

bidet*

American Sign Language:


English:
bidet

French:
un bidet

Italian:
il bidet

Spanish:
un bidet

Swahili: