How different languages say “it’s all Greek to me.” |

It’s interesting how speakers of different languages have different perceptions about what is a difficult and inconceivable language. This is primarily shown in how they describe something they find difficult to understand. While English speakers use the phrase “it’s all Greek to me” to mean that they can’t understand something, speakers of other languages use the same analogy but they reference other languages, not necessarily Greek. So, we’ve asked our followers at The Language Nerds about the equivalent of “it’s all Greek to me” in their languages and they were generous enough to provide highly valuable responses that we summed up here for you. Have a good read ?

1. Cantonese (Hong Kong)

It’s all chicken’s intestines to me.

2. Mandarin

It’s all Martian to me.

3. Portuguese

It’s all Chinese to me.
It’s all Greek to me.

4. Bulgarian

It’s Greek and therefore unreadable.

5. German

It sounds like Spanish to me.
I only understand train station.

6. Greek

It’s all Chinese to me.

7. Moroccan Arabic

It’s the language of the ghosts to me.

8. Italian

It’s all Arabic to me.

9. French

It’s all Chinese to me.

10. Czech

It’s a Spanish village to me.

11. Polish

It’s Chinese to me.
It’s all black magic to me.

12. Danish

It’s Volapyk to me. (Volapyk is the first auxiliary language ever created).
It’s all Russian to me.

13. Egyptian Arabic:

Is this the hieroglyphics?

14. Turkish

It’s all French to me.

15. Finnish

It’s all Hebrew to me.

16. Swedish

It sounds like Greek to me.

17. Croatian

It’s like you’re speaking Hungarian.
It’s all Turkish villages to me.

18. Burmese

It looks like fried bean sprouts.

19. Syrian Arabic

This is Sanskrit to me.

20. Thai

It’s an alien language to me.

21. Catalan

It sounds like Chinese.

22. Icelandic

This is Hebrew to me .

23. Japanese

This is Gibberish to me.

24. Latvian

It’s the Chinese alphabet.

25. Persian

I don’t understand Greek.

26. Macedonian

That’s a Spanish village to me.

27. Punjabi

Am I speaking Farsi?

28. Yiddish

It’s Aramaic to me.

Here is an illustration that sums up the above: