--- title: Infographic: How to Say Hello In French, German, Chinese, Japanese description: From Croatian to Korean to Swahili to Swedish canonical: https://time.com/40910/21-ways-to-say-hello-infographic/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-28T12:00:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:16.992Z og:title: This Handy Graphic Shows How to Say Hello In 21 Different Languages og:description: From Croatian to Korean to Swahili to Swedish og:url: https://time.com/40910/21-ways-to-say-hello-infographic/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Handy Graphic Shows How to Say Hello In 21 Different Languages twitter:description: From Croatian to Korean to Swahili to Swedish twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's How to Say 'Hello' In 21 Different Languages by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 28, 2014 12:00 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 28, 2014 12:00 PM UTC Sick of greeting people with a boring old “hello” or “hey or “howdy there?” This infographic from [LivingLanguage.com](http://livinglanguage.com/) offers 21 other ways to say it. We definitely recommend busting these out to seem more worldly and cultured. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/40910/21-ways-to-say-hello-infographic/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/40910/21-ways-to-say-hello-infographic/"},"headline":"Here's How to Say 'Hello' In 21 Different Languages","datePublished":"2014-03-28T12:00:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:16.992Z","description":"From Croatian to Korean to Swahili to Swedish","url":"https://time.com/40910/21-ways-to-say-hello-infographic/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Languages","World","language"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/40910/21-ways-to-say-hello-infographic/","name":"Here's How to Say 'Hello' In 21 Different Languages"}}]}] ```