Say (or type) the word "Beer" in another language

[AsahinaKimi]

Last edited Mon Mar 18, 2013, 06:46 PM - Edit history (1)

Okay, Say the word "Beer" in another language. Use Google translate if you want. Just do one, so others will have a chance and we don't have the same word over and over again in Spanish or French.. No Brand names!


Japanese ~ Biiru.
Your turn!

[Callmecrazy]

1. German~ Bier.

[backscatter712]

57. I've always heard "Pils"

Ein Pils, bitte!

I suppose that's short for pilsner, but when I was in Germany, that was the word people generically used for beer.

[hobbit709]

2. Bier-German, Birra-Italian, пиво-pivo-Russian

[graywarrior]

3. Piwo

Polski

[AsahinaKimi]

4. awesome..

if one does a search on Google, there are a few websites that list a ton of countries and their names! Nice one!

[Paulie]

47. bardzo dobrze!

nie movie po polsku.

(my kids do more than I)

[graywarrior]

52. We weren't allowed to speak Polish in our Polish household

We were "Americans." Sad, because I wish I knew the language.

[Paulie]

54. My daughter will be going after kindergarten this summer

My spouse says I can go with her and the other 6-7 year olds.

I think my 16 month old only knows polish at this point.

I took two conversational polish at my local community college 7 years apart. Same instructor so I was the one she picked during 2nd time all the time to go to the board. Still didn't help, I'm not good with languages.

Pimsleur was my best hope but its slow going.

[a la izquierda]

70. My mom never learned Italian or Spanish...

Because my grandparents were "Americans."

[Enrique]

50. that explains these signs all over Chicago

[graywarrior]

51. Pronounced pivo!

I drank lots of it.

[Rhiannon12866]

60. My Polish grandmother would have some once in awhile

I've never forgotten that word, among others.

[Mr.Bill]

5. Spanish

Cerveza

[pinboy3niner]

15. In a bar you can just call out, "Una fría!"

"A cold one!"

[pinboy3niner]

6. Vietnamese: bia

During the war, the Vietnamese brand "33" (Ba Muy Ba) beer was ubiquitous. After the war, it was changed to "333" (Ba Ba Ba).

They may have reverted, though, as I'm seeing reports of "33" beer served in restaurants here.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. Thanks for the info!

Interesting! ^^

[bluesbassman]

7. Foster's.

That's Australian for beer.

[AsahinaKimi]

9. haha

If that's Aussie maybe ya could have said.."Bee yah"

[bluesbassman]

14. Very good Aussie enunciation there Kimi!

BTW, your a tad younger than I am (okay a lot younger, but who's counting ) so you might not remember those commercials, but Foster's used to run ads with the "Australian for beer" tag line.

[AsahinaKimi]

17. fair dinkum?

of course i remember them!

[bluesbassman]

22. You never cease to amaze me.

You are indeed a woman of great scope and interest.

[AsahinaKimi]

24. heh

[pinboy3niner]

25. And you know what Aussies call American major brand beer...

..."Baby Piss."

[SwissTony]

44. NO, IT'S NOT!!!!!

Fosters is the Australian beer Aussies don't drink. It's the beer drunk overseas by non-Aussies who think they are drinking Aussie beer.

Our favourite beers are (I believe) VB (Victoria bitter), XXXX (pronounced "4X&quot , Tooheys and Coopers.

English Foster's is much better than the Australian version. Australian Heineken is just gorgeous.

[bluesbassman]

46. Well that makes sense.

But I imagine the ad exec would've lost his job if the tag line had been "Foster's: Australian for the beer that Aussies don't drink".

I'm always keen to try good new beer, so I'll keep an eye out for the ones you mentioned. Should be able to find some imported somewhere.

[pinboy3niner]

49. My Aussie buddy drinks VB

Won't touch Foster's.

[SwissTony]

55. I drink Foster's when in London. Completely different beer.

Got fond of Tooheys when I lived in Darwin a few years ago.

Foster's isn't an Aussie beer...not in Oz, anyway.

[T_i_B]

61. English Fosters is much better?

Exactly how shit must Australian Fosters be then?

[SwissTony]

62. Answer: very.

I honestly don't know one Aussie in Oz who drinks it...and let's just say I'm not unfamiliar with Aussie beer culture.

[T_i_B]

64. IMHO English Fosters is the worst of the mass produced lagers

I have had worse, but of the mainstream rubbish out there Fosters is the worst.

Happily there's so much good beer out there at the moment that there really isn't any excuse for drinking Fosters or Carling these days.

[SwissTony]

79. One of my great pleasures when visiting England is drinking English beer.

You have some beautiful, subtle beers.

I had a gorgeous beer in Alston, Cumbria a few years ago. Just gorgeous. Unfortunately, it wasn't available as off-licence. Probably wouldn't have been the same anyway.

I had another gorgeous beer in London 20 years ago. Its name just consisted of digits. But it was beer to die for.

[T_i_B]

80. Cumbria?

Could have been from a few good breweries that are in that neck of the woods. Hawkshead, Hardknott & Coniston for starters.

Was the name consisting of digits something like 80/-? If so then it would have been a scotch ale, which is a whole beer style in itself.

[SwissTony]

86. Can't remember. I was attending a course at LSE

and was told to sample this beer.

Just gorgeous.

[Initech]

10. μπύρα

[AsahinaKimi]

16. This is

Greek to me!

[pinboy3niner]

18. I had to google to learn that it is..Greek :)

[arcane1]

11. Indo-European "alu"

[LiberalEsto]

12. The Estonian word is õlu

From Beer History:

"Of the two terms, beer and ale, the latter is the older in English. It is believed to come directly from the proto-Indo European root *alu-, through Germanic *aluth- ([1]). The same word is the stem for Finnish olut, Estonian õlu, Danish and Norwegian øl and Latvian/Lithuanian alus."

http://www.beer100.com/history/beerhistory.htm

[AsahinaKimi]

13. I'll

drink to that!

[Initech]

19. 맥주

[AsahinaKimi]

21. Thats Korean!

maegju

[talkingmime]

32. Yes. I'm partially fluent (not really) in Korean.

I can read it without any problem. Sometimes the words are difficult, but I know the letters and know how to read them, and pronounce them. I don't alsways understand or even know the context. You know Korean? Not many Americans do. It's a cool language.

My wife and daughters are ranking black belts in Tang Soo Do (당수도 and are well versed in Korean. Yeah, I know the language to some extent. I'm better at Russian and German, and a little Arabic and a small amount of French, but I'm not bad with Korean. Japanese completely eludes me. I just can't grasp it.

Spanish is something I can grasp, French is mush mouth, Latin is curiously simple. French is just gibberish. Did I mention that French is gibberish? I know a few dialects of Native American, but only with a limited vocabulary, mostly Susquehannan of which I'm decended. It's amazingly close to Inuit. I have ancestry dating back to the late 17th century where my Native American ancesters were, and they were only about 12 miles east of where I live now. Coincidence.

I'm impressed that you recognized that as Korean. Most people don't have a fucking clue.

[IcyPeas]

20. this is "beer" in Welsh - no joke = "Cwrw"

I got it from Google Translate

[AsahinaKimi]

23. Must be hell

to pronounce.. but easy to go down!

[Spider Jerusalem]

67. Pronounced "Kuru"

"w" is pronounced like "u" and represents a vowel in Welsh.

[IcyPeas]

75. thanks, I was wondering how it was pronounced

[talkingmime]

26. 맥주

Edit: Yes, I can say that.

[pinboy3niner]

27. Korean?

ETA: I was at a veterans' reunion once when a Korean couple brought us some bottles of a white, milky liquid that was some kind of liquor. Do you know what that is?

[talkingmime]

28. No offense intended, but that's in the "WELL DUH" department.

It's the only oriental language based on sylliblification. (sp?)

Each Korean symbol has a lead consonant, a vowel, and a terminal consonant. It was constructed sometime in the 16th century based on the native Chinese dialect, but structured to be easily useful for the general masses. It is probably the most structured language on the planet.

I can read it fluently but don't always understand what it means. That's a testament to the language. While I may not know the meaning of the words, I can read it and pronounce everything as if I grew up in Korea. I hear it when I read it. It often times amazes me that I know what the printed text means. It's sort of funky.

What was the question again?


Edit: OOOPS - The milky liquid. Yes, I know what that is. Businessmen carry (juice boxes) with that shit in it. It's a soy-based liquor of about 70 proof. They snarf it down all day all the time. Being a business man (or woman) in Korea must be pretty cool. They're perpetually wasted.

I have Korean friends, which is why I know the language. Even THEY laugh about the juice box yummies.

[pinboy3niner]

45. Thanks

In Vietnam they have a concoction that we call rice wine, but it's really a rice liquor--very strong. They'll even put snakes in the bottle to increase its "health benefits."

When you visit there, hospitality to a guest is very important. The poorest family will offer the last of their food to a visitor. So, on one visit, my Vietnamese host brought out his prized, untapped bottle of rice liquor with 12 snakes in it. I may live forever, now!

[jmowreader]

65. That would be Makkoli

Makkoli is a fermented spirit made from boiled sweet rice. This is how to make it...

http://naokomoore.com/2011/06/homemade-makkoli-korean-rice-wine.html

After reading that you will probably decide that "makkoli" is Korean for "pruno."

[pinboy3niner]

77. Thanks for the info

I didn't get to try it (which is probably just as well). I think I'll continue to have my sweet rice unfermented.

[MiddleFingerMom]

29. Beer.

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Canadian.
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OK, OK... pivo -- Czech for beer.
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in 1970's Germany, I had a number of Czechoslovakian friends. They were all very fun and laughed a
lot and they were simultaneously very sad -- they were ALL very homesick refugees from the Russian
invasion of the late 1960's.
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I was learning rudimentary Czech from them, but the only thing I remember is the most important thing
they taught me (the second-most important thing being, logically -- "Where's the bathroom?'
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I've spelled it phonetically here.
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Pro-zhim-tee mee-yeew-zesch meer dot yed-no pee-vo.
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Please bring me another beer.
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This was a GREAT Czech gasthaus that I knew them from -- the only drawback being that there were
seldom, if ever, any young Czech women my age (late teens). Once, a middle-aged couple came in with
their cute daughter and I sat at their table, interested and chatting in my broken Czech, their broken
English and our fair German.
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I decided to go old-school traditional and ask the parents if I could take their daughter out. I went back
to my Czech buddies' table and they taught me -- me practicing it at their table until I got it right.
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I went back and asked the parents. They must have had absolutely NO sense of humor because they got
very angry, bundled their daughter up and stormed out of the bar. My "buddies" were howling with laughter
back at their table.
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I had very earnestly, very seriously and very innocently told them:
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"I am very excited because your daughter has breasts like the Alps."
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[AsahinaKimi]

31. awww such a bad

Joke they pulled on you. I have heard of others pulling that kind of joke on people. Teaching people to say the wrong thing in a language and you don't know if its what you really want to say. Remind me some time to tell you what I did once.. It was mean as a lesson, but it was nearly the same kind of thing. I won't go into it here.. but I felt Justified doing it.

[pink-o]

30. Birra

Parlo poco Italiano. Ma vino e piu bene!

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

53. Not bad, pink-o

Ma vino e` meglio (better) is the proper form but still kudos. Italian is not as easy as people think. I also concur that il vino e` meglio della birra, pero` una birra fresca con la pizza...mmmmm!

[Ikonoklast]

33. Hmmm, "Beer" in another lanugage..

I think that I just did, but I don't know what a 'lanugage' is.

Is that something to measure a lanu with?

[AsahinaKimi]

35. I FIXED it now...

so do you wanta play now ..or just take cheap shots at my postings?

[Ikonoklast]

40. I thought it was funny, I type the exact same typo all the time.

[AsahinaKimi]

41. k...

sorry, I am getting tired..been up all night. Guess I will head to bed. You guys have fun with this...

[Ikonoklast]

43. The have one of these before turning in, takes the edge off a long day...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. Actually, the Japanese word is "biiru," not "biru"

ビール, not ビル

"Biru" means "building" and is an abbreviation of the English word.

[AsahinaKimi]

36. corrected.

arigatou.

[Art_from_Ark]

82. Or, if you don't want to pay the full "biiru" price (about 200 yen),

you can buy some "bakuga-zake" 麦芽酒 (malt liquor) for usually less than half the price.

[AsahinaKimi]

83. Ark san?

Oishii desu ka?

[Art_from_Ark]

84. Sono aji wa biiru to onaji darou

Tsukurikata dake ga chigau to iwareteiru. Nihon dewa, biiru no you na happou-shu no nedan wa, houritsu no mondai de, bakuga-zake no youna rikyuuru-rui yori takai.

[AsahinaKimi]

85. naruhodo.

Arigatou.

[Art_from_Ark]

87. "Coke vs Pepsi" to onaji darou

"Biiru no hakase" wa biiru to bakuga-zake no aji wo kubetsu dekiru kamoshirenai ga...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

37. Mandarin Chinese: pí-jîu

and every city in China has its own brand. It's the safest thing to drink, too.

[benld74]

48. Its all above 8% alcohol too! Size of the bottles I had were about champagne magnum size here,,,

[pipi_k]

38. "Pombe"

Swahili

[AsahinaKimi]

39. excellent!

[Aristus]

42. Pivo.

Russian. Spelled in the Roman alphabet, though. I don't have time to do a cut-and-paste of the Cyrillic...

[Hoyt]

56. Eerbay.

[struggle4progress]

58. buuuuuuuuuuuuuurp

that's beer in struggle4progrese

[In_The_Wind]

59. Welsh ~ cwrw

[Taverner]

63. Fosters! Wait, that's just an ad? It's not really Australian for beer?

That explains why the Australian bartender looked at me funny for asking for a Victoria Bitter Fosters...

[Zorra]

66. Bizhéé' hólóní is beer in Navajo. nt

[BainsBane]

69. Very cool!

[BainsBane]

68. Cerveja

Portuguese.

[a la izquierda]

71. Cheba

Yucatec Maya. One of the only words I understand down there.

Texuinotl, in Nahuatl. Tesguino is a kind of corn beer in Mexico.

[EvilAL]

72. French - Biere

[eShirl]

73. Okinawan ~ Orion Biiru!!!

[AsahinaKimi]

74. sugoi!

That's cool.. kakkoii ne! ^^

[Turbineguy]

76. My first time in Panama

I kept seeing all these signs calling my attention to "CERVEZA". I determined that this must be some sort of cultural icon that required further investigation.

[LeftInTX]

78. Karechur - Armenian

[Maine-ah]

81. Maine...

Bee-ah.