Whoa there ferryman!!!

If I had one super power, it probably would be... gosh, I don't know.
Would I fly? possess super sonic speed? the ability to breath under water? be invisible?
I think it would be to speak any language effortlessly and instantaneously. That would be amazing.
I have tried my tongue at a few different languages with varying degrees of success - But despite my lack of fluency, I do think it is possible to learn how to say hello in lots of different languages.

You can too, click here

But have you ever stopped to think about the word, hello?

Where does the word come from?
Well according to wikipedia, it was used in publications as early as 1833. These include an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee,^[1] good ole' Davy Crockett!!

Before that, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it seems that hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo,^[3] which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imper[ative] of halôn, holôn to fetch, used esp[ecially] in hailing a ferryman."^[4] It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there').^[5]

So, once you master saying hello in
Swahili, which is jambo? or "hujambo?," which loosely translate as 'how are you?' are commonly used but you may also say Habari gani? (What is the news?)

or in Zulu, which is sawubona for one person, sanibonani for multiple people. Sawubona translates to  'we see you' and you should respond by saying "yebo"-meaning 'yes,'

you can start practicing how to say hello like only Lionel Richie can... but hopefully not as creepy as he is in the video... who knew?
Lionel Richie - Hello