"Thanks God" from "Gracias a Dios"
^^^ this is kinda weird considering Cuban Spanish omits the S (and often half the rest of the letters in any given sentence, lol, at least to my lower intermediate Spanish ears), resulting in "Gracia Dio"
^^^ this is kinda weird considering Cuban Spanish omits the S (and often half the rest of the letters in any given sentence, lol, at least to my lower intermediate Spanish ears), resulting in "Gracia Dio"
By the way I had a coworker who was a native Arabic speaker say "thanks God" a lot. I think "thank God" is a phrasing that throws off a lot of people learning English, from multiple language backgrounds.