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[FearfulJesuit]

Here's the problem with being a polyglot: if where you live is a highly monolingual area, and is monolingual for hundreds of miles around, how are you supposed to find people to speak with?

Well, you sort of have to advertise yourself. To that end, I'm thinking about designing a series of pins and buttons. The pins will be large enough to be read but not obnoxiously large, and they will have "Talk to me in X" in X (where X is a language), with the associated flag as the background.

So I need translations. For the following languages, "Talk to me in X":

Portuguese
Spanish
Catalan
French
Italian
Romanian
Irish
Scottish Gaelic
Manx
Welsh
Cornish
Breton
Dutch
German
Icelandic
Faroese
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Polish
Czech
Slovak
Russian
Ukranian
Belarusian
Slovenian
Croatian
Serbian
Bulgarian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Greek
Albanian
Finnish
Estonian
Hungarian
Arabic
Turkish
Farsi
Hindi (and any other Indian languages you can think of)
Mandarin
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
Cambodian
Thai
Indonesian
Swahili
Afrikaans
Malagasy

That should do, I think. Sure, some of you nattering naysayers might say that nobody speaks Cornish (and that's completely true), but, hey, it costs nothing to design, and it's all in good fun. And even if your Cornish is rusty, it makes a good conversation starter. Any other languages you know that have national status will also be used. So help out?

[Lectorog]

For Spanish, "Hablame." or "Hablame en español." should do it. I'm far from fluent, though.

Interesting idea. Sorry I can't help much; I'm no polyglot wizard.

[Skyrunner]

Korean: 저와 한국어로 대화해 주세요. (~= Please converse with me in Korean)



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[lorb]

Something similar already exists.
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[Ancre]

Too lazy to click lorb's links !

French : "Parlez-moi en français." Talk to me in french.

[New Guy]

Sige, mag-usap tayo ng tagalog.

Sana, yung tagalog, you listed it among your known languages.

Pero, wala akong magagawa kung hindi ka marunong mag tagalog.

[Haspen]

'Mów do mnie po polsku'. Talk to me in Polish.

Mów = Muff (as in 'muffin')
do = do (do re mi fa sol...)
Mnie = no idea how to say it in 'english' way.
Po = Poe
Polsku = Pol (as in 'poll') and Sku (as in 'skull')

[sayaks]

Norwegian:

Snakk med meg på norsk

Talk to me in norwegian

[Barbarossa TSG]

From my 2 years of Japanese:

Romaji: Nihongo de watashi ni hanasu kudasai

For Reals: 日本語で私に話すください。

(Just swapped in 'Japanese'. I normally asked "Please speak to me in English" to my teacher.  ))

[Virex]

Well, for a direct translation would be
"Praat Nederlands tegen mij"


But that would probably considered quite rude, since it uses the imperative form (you're more demanding it then asking it). A more Dutch way would probably be to use
"Ik spreek Nederlands",
Meaning "I speak Dutch"

[Shook]

"Snak med mig på dansk"

But as Virex mentioned, it's probably a bit more polite to say "jeg taler dansk", since It's more informative and less "demanding".

Oh yeah, it's Danish. Extremely similar to Norwegian bokmål, at least in writing.

[LordBucket]

Romaji: Nihongo de watashi ni hanasu kudasai

Hanasu is unconjugated. Try hanashite.

[tomas1297]

Lithuanian

Hah, wow...

 "Kalbėk/Kalbėkite su manimi Lietuviškai."

 "Kalbėk" is a more casual form you use when talking to friends and family, "Kalbėkite" is a more polite or official form, which you use to talk to strangers, authority or your elders (except your family, though about a hundred years ago and earlier, the polite form was used to talk with your parents as well). So I don't know, use the one that's more fitting. It's pretty much exactly the same thing as in Russian.
 Also don't bother trying to pronounce it, you'll get it wrong. Lithuanian is...weird...

 I also know Russian, but don't have a cyrillic keyboard, and German, but I'm really bad at it and don't want to make any mistakes, so...

[Skyrunner]

OP should cross out already translated languages.

[Sordid]

Czech: Promluvme si česky. (~ let's have a conversation in Czech)

From my 2 years of Japanese:

Romaji: Nihongo de watashi ni hanasu kudasai

For Reals: 日本語で私に話すください。

(Just swapped in 'Japanese'. I normally asked "Please speak to me in English" to my teacher.  ))

I'd say: 日本語で話しましょう (nihon go de hanashimashou, ~ let's speak in Japanese)