What useless phrase are you able to say in a foreign language?

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Morning all

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Morning all isnt in a foreign language

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Is to some

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‘I’m walking here!’ - American

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It’s such a rare occurrence in the states that it must be announced!

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Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire ? (to the tune)

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Did an Erasmus+ project with Lithuanian and Latvian folk musicians and can still, some ten years on, recite full songs in both languages.

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Est-ce que je peux enlever ma veste si vous plait?

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Excuse me please, can you check the oil? In German.

I don’t think I’ve ever asked anybody to check the oil in any language. Just doesn’t seem like a useful phrase to learn. Maybe if you were touring Europe in a Bentley in 1925?

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On my moped (in German. Can’t remember how to spell it, though).

I’ve never ridden a moped.

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Dos cervezas por favor

Useless because I travel alone

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Have been singing this pretty much constantly for 25 years

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“Mi perro tiene hipo.”

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Huevos verde y jamon

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Also worked ‘c’est un magasin local pour les personnes local, il n’y a rien pour vous ici’ into my French GCSE oral exam.

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“mekuso hanakuso o warau”

Which is the Japanese equivalent of ‘pot calling the kettle black’, but which translates directly as ‘eye bogies laughing at nose bogies’

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‘Villa’ in Greek means ‘dick’. I think ‘lipsa villa’ (phonetic, obvs) is ‘suck my dick’

@froglet confirm or deny?

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Du hast Keine ahnung was der schnitzel ist, Oder?

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Mein winklemesser ist kaputt

My protractor is broken
German

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To jest tępy ból

It’s a dull pain (in Polish)