WorksheetsEuropean Day of Languages
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
Which city name does the word “jeans” come from?
Genova
Girona
Geneva
Which language in the EU uses Cyrillic?
Slovak
Croatian
Bulgarian
In which language all nouns are capitalized?
Greek
Portuguese
German
In which language 75 % of words are borrowed from other languages?
Spanish
French
Dutch
Which language has a letter Ț, ț (T-comma)?
Romanian
Hungarian
Maltese
What is the origin of the English word 'apple'?
from the Italian town Abella
Adam in the Bible
From the Greek god Apollo
Which of the following languages belong to the group of Celtic languages?
English
Welsh
Basque
Which of the following languages belong to the group of Germanic languages?
Slovenian
Icelandic
Estonian
Maltese originated from...
French
Arabic
Italian
In which country French is NOT an official language:
Belgium
Switzerland
Liechtenstein
Italian shares 89 percent of its vocabulary with:
Romanian
French
Spanish
What are the two most common words in English?
“I” and “you”
“me” and “you”
“yes” and “no”
What is the newest recognized language in Europe (not necessarily only in EU)?
Croatian
Albanian
Macedonian
This language is the longest living language in Europe, and has no provable genealogical link to other languages. What is it called?
Welsh
Sardinian
Basque
Which language in Europe DOES NOT belong to the Finno-Ugric language group?
Estonian
Hungarian
Yiddish
Which language is NOT an official language of Norway?
Norwegian
Bokmål
Sami
This language became official in the country where it is mostly used only in 2009. Which language is it?
Danish
Finnish
Swedish
Which language is the newest member in the family of EU?
Croatian
Czeck
Bulgarian
Which language doesn’t have words for yes and no?
Hungarian
Irish
Catalan
Which language is sometimes called “Slavic Esperanto” as it is easiest to understand for speakers of different Slavic languages?
Slovak
Polish
Czech
In Irish they have 3 types of numbers, what are they used for?
mathematics, years, objects
people, things, animals
mathematics, people, things
What’s the language on the meme?
(it’s also the nationality of this man who became famous because his picture ended up on a viral meme!)
Hungarian
Turkish
Estonian
In which language do people say “cheers” this way?
Czech
Latvian
Irish
Which language has, according to a popular joke among its speakers, “no sex and no future”?
In this language time expressions are used to express future (there’s no future tense as such) and it doesn’t have gendered nouns or pronouns – both men and women are referred to as “tema”.
Finnish
Swedish
Estonian
This language was a dominant influence for JRR Tolkien in the creation of early versions of Quenya, the Elvish language from “The Lord of the Rings”.
When Tolkien discovered the language, he said: "It’s like discovering a complete wine-cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before."
Finnish
Irish
Lithuanian
What expression is used in Danish to describe “the worst, most boring thing ever”?
the sausage of death
like a dead herring
worse than a dead pig
There’s a saying in Polish “Not my circus, not my monkeys”. What does it mean?
I don’ t know, I have no experience with this
it’s not my problem
Don’t blame me, it wasn’t my idea
