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12 key phrases to learn any language.
Following are Tim's 12 key phrases for learning a new language. You can use the table for your own learning purposes. Simply enter the translations for each new language you wish to learn. Tim recommends getting the translations from a native speaker. (We'll provide Google in the meantime.)

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French
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English Phrase
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1
The apple is red.
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2
It is John's apple.
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3
I give John the apple.
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4
We give him the apple.
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5
He gives it to John.
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6
She gives it to him.
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7
Is the apple red?
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8
The apples are red.
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9
I must give it to him.
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10
I want to give it to her.
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11
I'm going to know tomorrow.
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12
I can't eat the apple.
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13
Bonus: I have eaten the apple.
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Languages
Language
Abbreviation
1
Afrikaans
af
2
Albanian
sq
3
Amharic
am
4
Arabic
ar
5
Armenian
hy
6
Azerbaijani
az
7
Basque
eu
8
Belarusian
be
9
Bengali
bn
10
Bosnian
bs
11
Bulgarian
bg
12
Catalan
ca
13
Cebuano
ceb
14
Chinese (Simplified)
zh-CN
15
Chinese (Traditional)
zh-TW
16
Corsican
co
17
Croatian
hr
18
Czech
cs
19
Danish
da
20
Dutch
nl
21
Esperanto
eo
22
Estonian
et
23
Finnish
fi
24
French
fr
25
Frisian
fy
26
Galician
gl
27
Georgian
ka
28
German
de
29
Greek
el
30
Gujarati
gu
31
Haitian Creole
ht
32
Hausa
ha
33
Hawaiian
haw
34
Hebrew
he
35
Hindi
hi
36
Hmong
hmn
37
Hungarian
hu
38
Icelandic
is
39
Igbo
ig
40
Indonesian
id
41
Irish
ga
42
Italian
it
43
Japanese
ja
44
Javanese
jw
45
Kannada
kn
46
Kazakh
kk
47
Khmer
km
48
Korean
ko
49
Kurdish
ku
50
Kyrgyz
ky
51
Lao
lo
52
Latin
la
53
Latvian
lv
54
Lithuanian
lt
55
Luxembourgish
lb
56
Macedonian
mk
57
Malagasy
mg
58
Malay
ms
59
Malayalam
ml
60
Maltese
mt
61
Maori
mi
62
Marathi
mr
63
Mongolian
mn
64
Myanmar (Burmese)
my
65
Nepali
ne
66
Norwegian
no
67
Nyanja (Chichewa)
ny
68
Pashto
ps
69
Persian
fa
70
Polish
pl
71
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil)
pt
72
Punjabi
pa
73
Romanian
ro
74
Russian
ru
75
Samoan
sm
76
Scots Gaelic
gd
77
Serbian
sr
78
Sesotho
st
79
Shona
sn
80
Sindhi
sd
81
Sinhala (Sinhalese)
si
82
Slovak
sk
83
Slovenian
sl
84
Somali
so
85
Spanish
es
86
Sundanese
su
87
Swahili
sw
88
Swedish
sv
89
Tagalog (Filipino)
tl
90
Tajik
tg
91
Tamil
ta
92
Telugu
te
93
Thai
th
94
Turkish
tr
95
Ukrainian
uk
96
Urdu
ur
97
Uzbek
uz
98
Vietnamese
vi
99
Welsh
cy
100
Xhosa
xh
101
Yiddish
yi
102
Yoruba
yo
103
Zulu
zu
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