Facts about foreign languages

How many languages worldwide with only one speaker left?

• 10

• 20

• 50

• 100

What is the average of words a 20-years-old English speaker knows?

• 42 000

• 420 000

• 120 000

• 5000

Bilingual people are less likely to suffer from dementia, age-related cognitive decline and even low intelligence scores.

• True

• False

Which is the most widely spoken language in the world?

• English

• Spanish

• Mandarin Chinese

• French

What is the hardest language to learn?

• Hebrew

• Japanese

• Hindi

• Mandarine Chinese

Argentina still has a high number of Welsh speakers, due to settlers inhabiting the Patagonia mountains hundreds of years ago

• True

• False

Which is the most linguistically diverse country?

• Papua New Guinea.

• Andorra

• Afghanistan

• Ghana

Which is the world’s oldest language?

• Bengali

• Hindi

• Tamil

• Lahnda

The Pope tweets in nine languages, but his Spanish account has the most followers.

• True

• False

Who knows where "the basque" language came from?

• French people

• Spanish people

• Italian people

• Nobody