Excuses

• My dog ate it.
  Canis meus id comedit.
• I did call. Maybe your answering machine is broken.
  Sane ego te vocavi. Forsitan capedictum tuum desit.
• Baby, Sweetheart, would I lie to you? 
  Amicule, deliciae, num is sum qui mentiar tibi?
• The check is in the mail. 
  Perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum est.
• I was kidnapped by aliens. What year is it?
  Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?

Insults

• I think some people in togas are plotting against me. 
  Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
• In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags. 
  Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
• If Caesar were alive, you’d be chained to an oar. 
  Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
• I’m not interested in your dopey religious cult. 
  Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.

Things to Say to a Teenager

• Really Rad, dude!
  Radicitus, comes!
• What’s happening?
  Quid fit?

Latin as a Computer Language

• Why won’t you print out?
  Cur ullum imprimere non vis?
• Don’t you dare erase my hard disk!
  Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!
• I did not commit a fatal error!
  Non erravi perniciose!
• Garbage in, garbage out.
  Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum.

Bumper Stickers

• I brake for animals 
  Frena pro feris teneo
• Save the whales 
  Balaenae nobis conservandae sunt
• Honk if you speak Latin 
  Sona si latine loqueris
• When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults 
  Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt
• If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close 
  Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades

Sounding Smart in Latin

• Listen, would you repeat everything you just told me, only this time say it in English? 
  Heus, modo itera omnia quae mihi nunc nuper narravisti, sed nunc Anglice?
• Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? 
  Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar?
• Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out. 
  Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur. 
• Sure, I speak a little Latin. 
  Sane, paululum linguae Latinae dico.
• I picked it up here and there. Really, Latin isn’t all that hard. 
  Id legi modo hic modo illic. Vero, Latine loqui non est difficilissimum.
• It looks like a tricky language, but you’ll get the hang of it pretty quickly. 
  Lingua speciem involutam praebet, sed sat cito eam comprehendes.
• And remember, there aren’t any Romans around to correct your pronunciation. 
  Atque memento, nulli adsunt Romanorum qui locutionem tuam corrigant.

  (At a poetry reading)

• It doesn’t rhyme. 
  Nullo metro compositum est.
• I don’t care. If it doesn’t rhyme, it isn’t a poem. 
  Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.

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(Korean) 메리 크리스마스!
(Chinese) 圣诞快乐
(French)  Joyeux Noël
(Spanish) ¡Feliz Navidad
(Latin)  Lorem Nativitatis
(Arabic)  عيد ميلاد مجيد
(Telugu)  మెర్రి క్రిస్మస్

French

• 50 Ways To Improve Your French
• Barron’s French Idioms
• Learn French: The Fast And Fun Way (This book has tons of great worksheets and everything. It’s great for learning French!)
• 2,001 Most Useful French Words
• Say It Right in French: The Easy Way to Pronounce Correctly 
• Streetwise French
• Berlitz Hide This French Phrase Book

Italian

• 50 Ways To Improve Your Italian
• Berlitz Self-Teacher Italian (Personally, I don’t really care for these types of books, mainly because I don’t the things you learn in the first few chapters. Unless you have a base in the language, I don’t think this book will work for you.)
• Learn Italian: The Fast And Fun Way (This book has tons of great worksheets and everything. It’s great for learning Italian!)
• Barron’s Italian Idioms 
• Easy Italian Phrase Book: 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use 
• Correct Your Italian Blunders

Spanish

• 50 Ways To Improve Your Spanish
• Correct Your Spanish Blunders 
• Just Enough Spanish
• Dirty Spanish - Warning: This is really vulgar.
• Barron’s Complete Spanish Grammar Review 
• Making Out in Spanish (I think this title is great. I’ve never read this book, but if you’re looking for slang/everyday Spanish, this seems like a pretty good book.)
• Ven Conmigo! Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook: Level 1 (This is the actual workbook I use in my Spanish 1 class. It is great and I love it. If you want to teach yourself Spanish, I highly recommend getting a workbook like this.)
• Hide This Spanish Book (This has a lot for a small book. Mainly just some basic phrases, along with some that are more vulgar.)
• Hide This Spanish Book for Lovers (The title speaks for itself…)  
• Mierda! The Real Spanish You Were Never Taught In School
• Say It Right In Spanish

German

• 50 Ways To Improve Your German
• Dirty German - Warning: This is really vulgar.
• Say It Right In German: The Easy Way to Pronounce Correctly
• Easy Way to Enlarge Your German Vocabulary
• Barron’s German Idioms
• The Tell-Tale Heart - If you want to read in German, this seems like a pretty good book to get. 
• German-English Visual Dictionary
• Scheisse!: The Real German You Were Never Taught In School - I love all these books. They have them in every language (The title means “Shit”). Although it doesn’t have the pronunciations, its still pretty great for the vocabulary it has. It’s a bit vulgar though, but not too bad.

Portuguese 

• Just Enough Portuguese: How to Get by and Be Easily Understood
• Portuguese Verb and Essentials of Grammar
• Berlitz Portuguese Phrase Books & Dictionary
• 51 Portuguese Idioms - Speak Like a Brazilian 

Arabic

• Arabic-English Visual Dictionary
• The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read and Write It
• First 100 Words In Arabic
• Learn Arabic: The Fast and Fun Way
• Making Out In Arabic  
• Instant Arabic!

Japanese

• Berlitz Concise Dictionary
• Essential Kanji: 2,000 Basic Japanese Characters
• Colloquial Kansai Japanese: The Dialects and Culture of the Kansai Region
• Speak Japanese Today 
• Making Out In Japanese - I just bought this book, and it seems pretty great. 
• More Making Out In Japanese 

Korean

• Say It Right In Korean 
• Korean Made Easy
• Instant Korean
• First 100 Words In Korean
• Making Out In Korean
• More Making Out In Korean
• Korean For Travelers - I think this might only be a Nook book, which kind of sucks.
• Dirty Korean -  Warning: This is really vulgar.  
• Basic Korean: Workbook
• Intermediate Korean: Workbook - I’m not sure if this is worth getting because of the price, but it seems like a helpful book
• Korean At A Glance
• Teach Me Everyday Korean

Chinese

• Making Out In Chinese (I think this title is great. I’ve never read this book, but if you’re looking for slang/everyday Chinese, this seems like a pretty good book.)
• Mandarin Chinese - English Visual Dictionary
• Survival Chinese 
• Get Talking Chinese - This book is so great. It’s kind of like a children’s book, but for learning basic Chinese, it’s great.
• Hide This Mandarin Chinese Phrase Book 
• Instant Chinese!

Polish

• Say It In Polish 
• Berlitz Polish Concise Dictionary
• Berlitz Polish Phrasebook and Dictionary
• Polish: An Essential Grammar

Russian

• Learn Russian: The Fast and Fun Way
• Say It Right In Russian
• Russian Vocabulary
• Dermo!: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used
• Russian At A Glance
• Just Enough Russian

General Language Books

• Barron’s 501 Verbs (comes in French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, English and German)

Note: I love Berlitz and Barron books for learning languages. Most are just reference books for verbs, grammar, or basic phrases instead of textbooks. But once you have a base in the language, they help you improve so much. I highly recommend buying any Berlitz or Barron language books. I love the 50 Ways To Improve Your books. They are the best grammar/vocab/correction language books ever. I use the Spanish one to help teach myself Spanish, and I absolutely love it. And it isn’t very expensive either!