The New Year 2025 celebrations around the world are all about fireworks. Sydney’s (pictured) are among the first to light up the skies, and make headlines around the world. Sydney’s are the best!
“Fireworks” is an efficient, exciting word; its equivalent in My Five Romance languages seems antiquated and academic in comparison, labelling them “artificial fire/fires”. How do they sound to you?
Linguistic ‘fireworks’ in M5R
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French: feu d’artifice
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Italian: fuochi d’artificio
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Portuguese: fogo de artifício
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Romanian: foc de artificii
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Spanish: fuegos artificiales
Which one is your favourite? I’m going for the Spanish, fuegos artificiales.
Sydney’s new year fireworks 2025 seen from Blues Point.
New Year fireworks coverage in Romance languages
Click on the headlines to see how the skies lit up in various parts of the world…
EN IMAGES Nouvel An : De Sydney à Paris (from 20minutes.fr)
Capodanno 2025: l’incredibile spettacolo dei fuochi d’artificio (from video.corriere.it)
Fogo de artifício iluminou entrada em 2025 no Porto (from jn.pt)
Cum a sărbătorit lumea trecerea în Anul Nou. 2025 (from stirileprotv.ro)
Fuegos artificiales, celebraciones y buenos deseos por el nuevo año (from espanol.cgtn.com)
My Five Romances wishes you a happy new year, wherever you are. M5R
Photo credits
Top image: The Sydney Harbour Bridge’s midnight moment. Photographer: Keith McInnes
Second image: Photographer: Morris McLennan
Photos courtesy of the City of Sydney
