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Since our eyes are constantly peeled for fun nursery art lately, we’re psyched to bring you this week’s giveaway from Grace Hester Designs. And even if you’re not expecting a little one, you might just spot the perfect piece to commemorate your wedding, your brood, or even your love of foreign languages amongst Grace’s type and silhouette-based art.
We love the idea of our little beanette learning some Spanish numbers or French animal names through these punchy designs (or even picking up a Chinese character or two). And it’s because of Grace’s fun range of prints that we couldn’t bear to narrow down this week’s prize to a specific group of designs – so TWO of you are gonna score a $50 credit toward anything in Grace’s etsy shop.
Here are this week’s entry details:
- PRIZE: A $50 credit towards any item from Grace Hester Designs
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “GRACE ME” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: …share with us your favorite word or saying from another language. Do you love the way a certain Italian word rolls off your tongue? Or maybe you have a go-to phrase that you learned when traveling abroad? If nothing else, is there an English word that sounds especially funny to you in Pig Latin?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, February 17th at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: Two
- PRIZE SHIPS: All over the globe!
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winners will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck!
Find more freebie info on our Giveaway FAQs page. Pics courtesy of Grace Hester Designs.
Ashley Shaunessy says
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Obra Maestra (magnum opus) in Spanish is my fave!
maura says
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“Je ne se pas.” — “I don’t know!”
Kim says
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Nicole P says
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“Te amo mis ninos de ojos azules”
“I love you my blue eyed boys” My husband and two sons all have beautiful blue eyes.
Carly says
GRACE ME! I know basically no Italian, but love to hear anyone else speak it. :)
Danielle says
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Katie says
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Shelly says
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fortasse=perhaps in Latin
claudia says
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For some reason I love the word…Poubelle.
It means garbage can in French. I remember walking around France seeing all the garbage cans thinking the word is so cute for something so dirty and gross.
Sara says
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lisamarie says
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I love to say “besame mucho” learned from the old spanish love song. Its a wonderful song to dance to with your guy!
Karen says
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Leanne says
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and upon reading your question, an image of my Spanish host mom in Madrid popped into my head…she was shuffling down the hall toward the bathroom rather quickly while whispering “hacer pis, hacer pis, tengo que hacer pis pis pis!” when ya gotta go, ya gotta go!
Antinette says
GRACE ME! My favorite word was when I heard my daughter first say, “mama”. We were in the Civil Affairs Office in Nanjing, China and were meeting our little three year old for the first time- we adopted her in February of 2007. Her nanny brought her to us and said something in Mandarin to her and she said, in this little tiny voice, “Mama, Baba.” Which is mommy and daddy in English.
Amy D says
GRACE ME! And by far my favorite word is “jordgubbe” – Swedish for strawberry. Our 2 year old girlies are just learning a few words for their Swedish dad and this one sounds, by far, the cutest.
karen k. says
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Ashley Mutschler says
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I love saying full dates in Italian. Mil Novencento Novanta Uno (1991). Isn’t that cool?
Amanda June says
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Shannah says
I lived in Kenya for several years and became fluent in Swahili. My two favorite phrases are: Haraka haraka haina baraka (literally: rushing denies blessings, figuratively: slow down and enjoy the roses) and Kali sana (literally: that’s fierce!). The latter is a great phrase to throw in amidst English and fits a ton of scenarios: That Tyra Banks is kali sana! Geesh, the July weather in Dallas is kali sana. You’d better back off, I’m feeling kali sana. Holy cow – that jalapeno is kali sana. (You get the idea…)
Marcie says
GRACE ME! Growing up with Norwegian grandparents there were always the words UFFDA and FISHDA. Uffda was usually used like we’d say “Oh No” or “Ouch”, for instance if we came in with a scraped knee. Fishda was in response to something disgusting, like my brother pulling a handful of worms out of his pocket.
Luke Mutschler says
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I always tell my wife “Tienes mi corizon” (You have my heart).
Brittney says
GRACE ME!!! I always use gracias in turn of saying thank you and the word Amore in Italian. Since I am Italian, I love using this word, so romantic!
Melissa says
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My favorite word in Spanish is cacahuete (peanut). I love the English word polyglot!
Erin says
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After living in China for a year, there are a few phrases that are just way more fun to say in Chinese than english, One of them is MAMAHUHU, which means “just so-so.” Try it!
Christina says
GRACE ME! I always say “S’agapo” to my husband a million times a day! (I love you in Greek)
Beth says
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Ciao!
Kylee says
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Pamela says
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I simply love the look of flicking your fingers on your shoulders, means “it’s not my responsibility” in American sign language.
Natalie D. says
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Andrea says
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I love French & Italian, but unfortunately don’t know much of either.
Jessica K says
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I love it when my husband talks to me in Cebano. It’s this jungly language from the Philippines. I never know what he’s saying but it’s kind of sexy.
Allison says
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Te quiero- I want you.
Kate H. says
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Right before bed, I say “slaapi doon” to my husband. I have no idea if this is the right spelling. I picked it up as an au pair in the Netherlands 16 years ago – we’d say it to the kids at night. Maybe Groningese, a sweet little saying for kids? Any dutch readers have a clue?
Heidi says
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While studying in France during college, my favorite phrase I learned (and still use!) was “Ce n’est pas grave.” Directly translated, it means “It’s not serious,” but people use it more to mean “no big deal.” I love it and used it all the time!
marissa says
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I’m particularly fond of “Puedo ir al Bano?” – if I learned nothing else, this was an essential phrase to survive Spanish class in highschool. :)
Janna L says
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My husband is half Armenian and I love to greet his grandmother with “barev” – it’s an informal hello in Armenian
Melanie says
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I minored in Spanish in college and studied abroad in Spain for a month, so I still remember a good bit of the language. I can’t say that I have a favorite word or phrase anymore though.
However, I’ll never forget how my first Spanish teacher in college referred to the “vosotros” conjugation of verbs as the “ya’ll” form (ah, the Deep South).
Becky says
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C’est la vie
Hayden says
Grace Me. :)
I was recently reminded of the Japanese phrase ‘Itadaki-masu’ which I think is basically “Bon Appetit”, but which someone translated for me once as something involving eating yummy food…
Bonus-Bonus: When I was little, I never understood why people would tell me to “Snic” things in pig Latin (“ix-Nay” became “ic-Snay”).
Kate C says
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I have a favorite wall hanging in my kitchen: céad míle fáilte (Gaelic for 100,000 Welcomes).
Melissa says
GRACE ME! My family’s favorite saying is what Linnie says to Kevin in Home Alone: “You are what the French call ‘les in-com-pe-tents’.”
SarahMC says
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After two semesters of Portuguese in college, the only word my brother can remember is “bobo” (pronounced bo BOO), the word for silly.
Becky says
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And as they say….”love in any language”
Juli says
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I like to say all of the random things I remember from my two years of high school Spanish…which isn’t a lot.
Ashley B. says
My husband moved here from South Africa 10 years ago and Afrikaans is his first language. The first thing he taught me to say was “Baie Dankie” which means “thank you very much” – but is pronounced Buy A Donkey :)
Kathleen says
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We like to call each other esposo and esposa (husband and wife- in Spanish).
I also like the word for the phrase: “Let’s cross over”
in Italian. Attraversiamo. I think we say it to each other almost every time we cross the street.
Amber says
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I like “mae”, because it means beauty in Chinese (I don’t know how to do the character on a computer).
My husband, who lived in Tiawan for a few years, will call me mae sometimes to let me know he thinks I am a beauty. He is so cute!
Ashley B. says
I forgot to say “GRACE ME!” – sorry!
Taya says
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Mary says
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