How do you write Love in your language?

I heard that chinese is one of the hardest languages ever and I can see why. Wow very nice wo ai ni! Coollllllllllll!

Oh I am sorry Angelia, it is tough!

Yeah, Chinese is tough - they have hanyu pin yin which is (wo ai ni) and the written ones. I could never do my Chinese well. Lol, can't write, can't read it and can't use the hanyu ping ying accurately. I had always been flunking it in school. =)

OMG Cottonm, you got all down! Fantastic!

The correct way of saying I love you in Cantonese is ngo oy nei. Yes it's a bit of a tongue twister I'm afraid. There's no way you can pronounce that properly without the assistance of a native speaker. There are at least 3 other dialect groups that you should be aware of. They are: Hokkien (in Singapore): wa ai lu Hakka: ngai oi ni Teochew: wa ai li (which is the same as Hokkien of Taiwan) To be honest though, you seldom find a use for "I love you" in Chinese because we're just not a people who'd normally "love" anybody. For one thing you don't see Chinese hug each other. The closest body contact you can hope for is probably a handshake or a sideway hug. Instead of saying I love you, Chinese would come out bluntly: would you like to check into a room with me? Or in the immortal words of Edison Chen (the now defamed HK star), via Messenger: yeah we maybe get a nice suite... and get freeky all night and day... heheh how bout it will u do it wid me babee. You get the idea. Also, the popular way of saying I love you in Japanese is suki sa, made famous by the pop group Anzen Chitai.

Oh nice! Ahava, sounds good to me! Shalom

Thank you Celestia, here in MyLot we learn a lot don't we?

So, nice, thank you for your input!

I live in the Republic of South Africa. I speak two languages equally well: English which is a sort of "Lingua Franca" here, and Afrikaans, a language based very largely on 17th century Dutch (Hollands). In Afrikaans "love" is "liefde" and "I love you" is "Ek het joulief", almost same as modern Dutch.