• Arabic: marhaban (MAR-ha-bahn)
• Fiji: Bula (MBoolaa)
• Mandarin Chinese: Ni Hau (Knee How)
• Portuguese: Ola, Como vai (I believe "Ola" is "hi" and "Como vai" is "How's it going?")
• Finnish: Paiva (pie-vaa) or 'Hei!' pronounced 'Hey!'
• Russian: (stras-vwie)
• Hebrew: Shalom
• Japanese: Ya-ho (this is not actually hello but what people yell in Japan when they want to hear an echo.)
• Hawaiian: Aloha
• Texan: Howdy
• Spanish: Hola
• French: Bon jour
• Italian: Buon Giorno
• German: Guten Tag
• Australia: G'Day!
• Tagalog (Phillippines): Kumusta

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Here are the flags for the countries/languages listed above.
Print them out, and as the children get better at the song with the alternate languages, you can test them with the flags!
How fun it would be to hold up different flags and see who can remember the words for that country?!

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Finnish: FINLAND Texan: TEXAS Mandarin Chinese: TAIWAN Fiji: FIJI Portuguese: PORTUGAL

Arabic: SAUDI ARABIA Hebrew: ISRAEL Hawaiian:HAWAII Spanish: SPAIN French: FRANCE

Italian:ITALY German: GERMANY Russian: RUSSIA Australia: AUSTRALIA Japanese: JAPAN