After seeing people in mangas or animes saying "itadakimasu" before the meal i asked myself how do the people in other countries say it. In German we say "mahlzeit"(spelled: mal-cajt) or "guten appetit"(guten apetit) and in Poland we say "smacznego"(smatch-nego)
i used "-" to separate the syllable and this way i think it is easier to spell it.
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"Buen provecho" in Spanish. When begining to eat / if you see people eating around. Nothing is said when you finish your meal though, except comments about the food or some random talk.
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Smakelijk in Dutch. 
Only English doesn't have it. o_o
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Bom Apetite in portuguese ^-^
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"Gaarrrrr" in mine..... especially if it looks good. My first language is English, BTW, and I don't think we have an equivalent to itadakimasu. We English speakers are ungrateful bastards.
'Cheers' for drinking, but that's universal.
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"Take your microwave meal and sit the fu%@ down" in Americano LOL 
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Quote from tsuto
"Buen provecho" in Spanish. When begining to eat / if you see people eating around. Nothing is said when you finish your meal though, except comments about the food or some random talk.
yeah same here "Buen provecho"
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Closest English equivalent, if I had to venture a guess, is "Time to dig in!"
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'dobar tek' or 'prijatno' as we say in Hrvatska
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here in Slovenia we say "Dober tek"
At the end of the meal we mostly compliment the food if it was good
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At the end of the meal we mostly compliment the food if it was good
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We say "Selamat Makan", but the shortened version "Makan" is more common here in Indonesia
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We English speakers are ungrateful bastards.
pretty much
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It's not really a custom here to do so but you can say "Bon appétit".
and at the end of the meal you can thank the one who prepared it. In my case it's my mom.
and at the end of the meal you can thank the one who prepared it. In my case it's my mom.
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In arabic you say "bismillah" and at the end you say "alhamdullilah." I'm pretty sure only Muslims say it, though.
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In finland we doesnt really say anythin before we eat =P
