November Student Writing: Cheers! “Toasting” Around the World November 21, 2016

This month for our November newsletter we asked our students to submit short writings on how they “cheers” or “toast” in their home country! In the spirit of the upcoming holidays we here at NYEA would like to say Cheers to all our students!

In my country people toast for many occasions and say a lot of words. We wish to each other health, love, success, and luck. When we raise our glasses we say “budem” which means “let it be…” – Julia Nazarova (Ukraine)

In my country, before we eat we say “bismillah” (in the name of Allah) and after we finish eating we say “alhamdulilah.” (Thank God) – Aminada Camaro (Guinea)

In China, we usually say “ganbei” before drinking. It means “cheers,” and sometimes it means that you respect someone, so you want to drink with him or her.” – Min Huang (China)

In Spain, we toast, yes, of course we do. Normally we say “tchin, tchin.” You don’t have to be clever to guess that the word comes from the sound that the glasses do when they clink. – Anna Llubera Mur (Spain)

People are likely to wish each other good health, to toast to a good business. In Algeria we always use the word “sante.” – Ahmed Menouer (Algeria)