{"id":830,"date":"2026-05-06T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:44:38","slug":"languages-b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/languages-b1\/","title":{"rendered":"Languages b1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope this is a good day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Arabic you have the phrase &#8216;afwan &#8211; which can be used to respond to \u0634\u0643\u0631\u0627\u064b (shukran &#8211; &#8220;thanks&#8221;). <em>&#8216;Afwan<\/em> can also be used to apologise. If you bump into someone you can say &#8216;afwan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So correct me if I am wrong but this phrase seems to be similar to Italian <em>prego<\/em>. Which I have heard is a very versatile word<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In turkish &#8220;l\u00fctfen&#8221; is used as <em>please<\/em>, I think in the same vein that <em>prego<\/em> is used (e.g. in restaurants).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope this is a good day. In Arabic you have the phrase &#8216;afwan &#8211; which can be used to respond to \u0634\u0643\u0631\u0627\u064b (shukran &#8211; &#8220;thanks&#8221;). &#8216;Afwan can also be used to apologise. If you bump into someone you can say &#8216;afwan. So correct me if I am wrong but this phrase seems to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,106,107],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arabic","tag-italian","tag-turkce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}