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OverviewSalut! Prost! Skal! Na zdrave! Tagay! No matter what country you clink glasses in, everyone has a word for cheers. In Cheers! Around the World in 80 Toasts, Brandon Cook takes readers on a whirlwind trip through languages from Estonian to Elvish and everywhere in between. Need to know how to toast in Tagalog? Say ""bottoms up"" in Basque? ""Down the hatch"" in Hungarian? Cook teaches readers how to toast in 80 languages and includes drinking traditions, historical facts, and strange linguistic phenomena for each. Sweden, for instance, has a drinking song that taunts an uppity garden gnome, while Turkey brandishes words like Avrupalilastiramadiklarimizdanmissinizcasina. And the most valuable liquor brand in the world isn't Johnny Walker or Hennessey, but Maotai-President Nixon's liquor of choice when he visited China. Whether you're traveling the globe or the beer aisle, Cheers! will show you there's a world of fun waiting for you. So raise a glass and begin exploring! The audio book is narrated by Nicholas Smith. Produced by Speechki in 2021. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brandon CookPublisher: Red Lightning Books Imprint: Red Lightning Books Weight: 0.494kg ISBN: 9781684351459ISBN 10: 1684351456 Pages: 378 Publication Date: 06 April 2021 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Part I: Europe and Eastern Europe 1. Albanian 2. Basque (Euskara) 3. Breton 4. Bulgarian 5. Croatian 6. Czech 7. Dutch 8. English 9. Estonian 10. Finnish 11. French 12. Galician 13. German 14. Greek 15. Hungarian 16. Irish 17. Italian 18. Latvian 19. Lithuanian 20. Maltese 21. Norwegian 22. Polish 23. Portuguese 24. Romanian 25. Russian 26. Serbian 27. Slovak 28. Slovenian 29. Spanish 30. Swedish 31. Turkish 32. Ukrainian 33. Welsh Part II: Eurasia 34. Armenian 35. Azerbaijani 36. Belarusian 37. Georgian 38. Kazakh 39. Mongolian 40. Tajik 41. Uzbek Part III: Asia and Austronesia 42. Myanmar (Burmese) 43. Cebuano 44. Mandarin Chinese 45. Chinese Dialects 46. Hawaiian 47. Hindi 48. Indonesian 49. Japanese 50. Khmer 51. Korean 52. Malayalam 53. Malay 54. Nepali 55. Sinhala 56. Tagalog 57. Tamil 58. Thai 59. Vietnamese Part IV: Africa and the Middle East 60. Afrikaans 61. Amharic 62. Arabic 63. Hausa 64. Igbo 65. Kinyarwanda 66. Persian (Farsi) 67. Somali 68. Swahili 69. Wolof 70. Xhosa 71. Yoruba Part V: Ancient, Constructed, and Miscellaneous 72. American Sign Language 73. Ancient Greek 74. Aramaic (Syriac) 75. Esperanto 76. Hebrew 77. Latin 78. Na'vi 79. Quenya (Elvish) 80. Toki Pona Language List by Country BibliographyReviewsCook debuts with an entertaining guide on how to give a toast in nearly 80 languages. . . . It's worth raising a glass to the enthusiasm and good nature of this fun project. * Publishers Weekly * Cook debuts with an entertaining guide on how to give a toast in nearly 80 languages. . . . It's worth raising a glass to the enthusiasm and good nature of this fun project. * Publishers Weekly * Say you're invited to a wedding where the groom is from Indonesia or the bride is Romanian, and you'd like to toast them in their native languages. A new book, Cheers! Around the World in 80 Toasts, will tell you that Bersulang! or Noroc! are what you need to say as you raise your glass. This global lexicon, written with a light touch, is a scholarly treatise on toasts in scores of languages and takes a deep dive into linguistics, history and traditions. The author, a writer and teacher, is proficient in five languages. He has organized the book by region, with the countries in each listed in alphabetical order for easy reference. You'll discover what to say, what libation should fill the glass and how it all came about. Read it with a clear head; there's much to learn. -- Florence Fabricant * New York Times Food * A new book explores drinking traditions across cultures and languages, and how rituals of celebration have evolved around the world, through a spirited study of 80 ways to raise your glass. -- Sucheta Chakraborty * Mumbai Mid-Day * Say you're invited to a wedding where the groom is from Indonesia or the bride is Romanian, and you'd like to toast them in their native languages. A new book, Cheers! Around the World in 80 Toasts, will tell you that Bersulang! or Noroc! are what you need to say as you raise your glass. This global lexicon, written with a light touch, is a scholarly treatise on toasts in scores of languages and takes a deep dive into linguistics, history and traditions. The author, a writer and teacher, is proficient in five languages. He has organized the book by region, with the countries in each listed in alphabetical order for easy reference. You'll discover what to say, what libation should fill the glass and how it all came about. Read it with a clear head; there's much to learn. -- Florence Fabricant * New York Times Food * Cook debuts with an entertaining guide on how to give a toast in nearly 80 languages. . . . It's worth raising a glass to the enthusiasm and good nature of this fun project. * Publishers Weekly * A new book explores drinking traditions across cultures and languages, and how rituals of celebration have evolved around the world, through a spirited study of 80 ways to raise your glass. -- Sucheta Chakraborty * Mumbai Mid-Day * Even if you have not set foot outside of your own home for over a year, this brick of a book can take you on a whirlwind worldwide tour in the comfort of that home with the potential for an additionally comforting beverage in your non-page-turning hand! . . . We all have so much to celebrate. Let's share our joys with the world. -- Matt Robinson * Matt's Meals * A fascinating little book that sheds light on how different cultures raise a glass, and who, what and how they toast while doing so. * Decanter * The collection of wry historical insights about raising a glass in 100 countries and almost that many languages is served up with keen observations on humanity and linguistics. -- Babs Rodriguez * 360West * Author InformationBrandon Cook is a writer and language enthusiast. He currently lives in Prague. Cheers! is his first book. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |