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As a practical point, saying it in English will almost certainly communicate what you need to communicate. Almost everyone who makes international calls will recognize that you're speaking English even if they don't understand what you're saying, which suggests that the Russian or Korean speaking person they're trying to reach is not at that number.
"New phone. Who dis?"
Dawg
“U bent verkeerd verbonden” (for calls)
“U heeft het verkeerde nummer” (generic)
Punnological the first sentence can also mean; 'your bandage has been applied incorrectly'.
It's hardly relevant, but I felt like sharing that
When you try to call the Red Cross to ask why you failed the first aid exam 😄
Or when you try to file a complaint with the hospital, but they hang up on you every time...
I'm really curious to learn how you get calls in so many different languages. I could definitely see Spanish, English, and maybe Vietnamese all being spoken in a general geographic area, but you listed a lot of diverse languages. Pretty cool if that's really all within one area!
I would love to know also. They are all spoken here for sure (quite a large population of people who speak the languages I listed) but what confuses me is the area codes are usually not my region for these calls.
Use google translate, it has lots of languages to transcribe to
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Uzran , laqad ittasalta birragami alkhata>
It means " sorry , you had the wrong number " in standard Arabic...
Ana atahaddathu al-injliziata faqat >
It means " I only speak English "
This is helpful. Thank you
Simpler to say is
Raqam ghalat
That's what I say, you could throw in a sorry at the end
Possible too , but I wrote the standard way because Arabs understand it no matter what their dialect is
Tiene un número incorrecto cabrón.
Du har ringt fel nummer.
We just say "pomyłka" (pol. mistake, error)
Instead of memorizing different phrases in different languages , a good advice would be to change your number if posible , or use a blocker to block strange numbers
I appreciate it, but I can't do either unfortunately since I have medical issues and need to answer many unknown numbers.