European Day of Languages Year 9

There are between ...... languages spoken in the world

• 3000 and 4000

• 4000 and 5000

• 5000 and 6000

• 6000 and 7000

Most of the world's languages are spoken in what continents:

• Asia and Africa

• Europe and America

• Antartica and Europe

• Asia and Europe

At least half of the world's population is bilingual or plurilingual. i.e they speak more than 2 languages

• Tru

• False

Tick the correct answer(s): The advantages of speaking more than one language are:

• finding a job

• easier to learn other languages

• you get to know other cultures better

• you can speak to others in their language and get their perspective

Which is the most widely spoken language in he world?

• Mandarin

• English

• Spanish

• Hindi

Which of the following languages are written from right to left

• Hebrew

• Maltese

• Japanese

• Arabic

Which of the following languages spoken in Europe today is considered to be the oldest?

• Galician

• Basque

• Icelandic

• Greek

Lithuanian together with Latvian are the only two living languages from the Baltic languages family.

• True

• False

The name Norway is believed to have come from the Old Norse translation for the words the “north way”, which in Old Norse were “nor veg”.

• True

• False

At a language beauty contest in 1934 in Paris, Ukrainian took third place after French and Persian

• True

• False