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Are you an expert in languages?
1. How many living languages are there estimated in the world?
a) Around 500
b) Around 2000
c) Around 4000
d) Around 6000
2. How many languages are estimated to be indigenous to Europe?
a) Less than 100
b) 100 – 200
c) 200 – 300
d) 300 - 400
3. Which is the most widely used language in the world?
a) English
b) Chinese
c) Spanish
d) Hindi
4. Which is considered to be the oldest of the languages still spoken in
Europe?
a) Galician
b) Greek
c) Basque
d) Icelandic

5. Which of the following languages are written from right to left?

a) Hebrew
b) Maltese
c) Japanese
d) Arabic

6. Where does the word ‘alphabet’ come from?

a) From Sanskrit
b) From the first two letters of the Greek alphabet
c) From the name of the Greek god Alphaeus
d) From the Egyptian word for ‘writing’
7. Which stone enabled European scholars to decipher hieroglyphs?
a) Napoleon’s Stone
b) Rosetta Stone
c) Babel Stone
d) Hieroglyphius

8. To which country does the adjective Lusitanian refer to?

a) Latvia
b) Lithuania
c) Portugal
d) Poland

9. Vodka is the Russian word for…

a) ‘little wine’
b) ‘little alcohol’
c) ‘little river Volga’
d) ‘little water’
10. From which language does the flower name tulip come from?

a) Latin
b) German
c) Turkish
d) Dutch

11. What does the word Eskimo mean?

a) ‘stranger’
b) ‘enemy’
c) ‘friend’
d) ‘snow’
WHY DO PEOPLE LEARN FOREIGN
LANGUAGES?

People learn foreign languages to:

 communicate with people who live in other countries
 understand people abroad
 find a common vehicle of communication
 communicate online with the rest of the world
 discuss matters online or in international meetings
 be able to understand global issues
 abolish frontiers between people
 enrich their personal knowledge
 …
WAYS TO LEARN A FOREIGN
LANGUAGE
To learn a foreign language we can:

  learn the language at school regularly

  attend a foreign school or multicultural school
  follow a language course through the internet
  learn from books and glossaries at home
  watch films and TV programmes or listen to music in the original
version
  speak with a native person regularly
  spend some time in a foreign country living with a family
  read many texts and write many compositions
  listen to people speaking that language
  study grammar and do lots of exercises
  memorise some vocabulary every day
  …
ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES
 United Kingdom
Capital: London

The United States

of America
Capital: Washington D.C.
South Africa New Zealand
Capital: Pretoria Capital: Wellington
Republic of
Ireland
Capital: Dublin
Canada Australia

Capital: Ottawa Capital: Canberra