Rick Warren prayed in Jesus' name in four languages in his invocation for the Obama Inauguration. Here's a handy cheat sheet if you want to outdo him while saying grace tonight:
Arabic, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz: EE-sa
Aramaic: EEE-sho
Bengali, Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Swahili: ye-su
Burmese: ye-SHOO
English: GEE-zes
German: YAY-sus
Hebrew: YESH-yoo-ah
Mandarin: yay-soo
Russian, Greek: ee-SOOS
Spanish, Quechua: he-SOOS
Welsh: ye-SEE
Yoruba, Zulu: GEE-soo
With thanks to Wycliffe Bible Translators and The Jesus Film Project.
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