Anne
body language

People from different country express greeting in different ways.
Like bowing ,shaking hands and others... What's yours?

2 okt. 2016 11:02
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smile ; hugging each other ;shakings hand 
we say 
صباح الخير , صباح النور , = good morning 
اهلا و سهلا , مرحبا , = welcome ; hello 

السلام عليكم = peace be upon you 

يوم سعيد (just for the mening but in arabic we say it in different way with our different arabic current languages ) like in Tunisia we say نهارك طيب ..
تصبح على خير : good night 

generally we use Douaa (pray) between each other as greeting too like God bless you ; .. etc  

2 oktober 2016
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Anne,

In Spain, are typical this greetings, as well:

- Shaking hands, in the first meeting beween males and two kisses beween men & women (one in each cheek). And a hug between young people.

See you,

Jose (Canary Island- Spain) 

2 oktober 2016
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In Argentina, we kiss on the cheek once (a woman and a man, two women or two men)
2 oktober 2016
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Alan's story is funny. One more reason to learn more about traditions and habits of the country where you are travelling to) I heard also that in some countries tossing head up and down means Yes and somewhere on the contrary means No. Sometimes it is fantastically easy to get into ridiculous situation)
8 oktober 2016
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@Alan, the "West" isn't culturally homogeneous on this issue. Certainly in Italy, and I think also in other parts of southern Europe, the palm-down gesture is used to mean "come here".
3 oktober 2016
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