CAM 17 - Listening 2 - QUIZ - Part 4 - 28 words

Over the past few sessions, we've been considering the reasons why some world languages are in …………...

In order to …………….. its effect, I'm going to focus on the Icelandic language, which is spoken by around 321,000 people, most of whom live in Iceland.

All this makes Icelandic quite a special language - it's changed very little in the past …………………., yet it can handle twenty-first-century concepts related to the use of computers and digital technology.

All this makes Icelandic quite a special language - it's changed very little in the past millennium, ………….. it can handle twenty-first-century concepts related to the use of computers and digital technology.

Take, for example, the word for web browser ... this is vafri in Icelandic, which comes from the verb 'to ………………..'.

I can't think of a more appropriate term because that's exactly what you do …………….. when you browse the internet.

young Icelanders spend a …………. …………. of time in the digital world and this world is predominantly English.

young Icelanders spend a great deal of time in the digital world and this world is ……………... English.

They didn't even exist until ……………….. recently, but today young people use them all the time to read books, watch TV or films, play games, listen to music, and so on.

Obviously, this is a good thing in many …………... because it promotes their bilingual skills.