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European Day of Languages

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which city name does the word “jeans” come from?

a)

Genova

b)

Girona

c)

Geneva

2.

Which language in the EU uses Cyrillic?

a)

Slovak

b)

Croatian

c)

Bulgarian

3.

In which language all nouns are capitalized?

a)

Greek

b)

Portuguese

c)

German

4.

In which language 75 % of words are borrowed from other languages?

a)

Spanish

b)

French

c)

Dutch

5.

Which language has a letter Ț, ț (T-comma)?

a)

Romanian

b)

Hungarian

c)

Maltese

6.

What is the origin of the English word 'apple'?

a)

from the Italian town Abella

b)

Adam in the Bible

c)

From the Greek god Apollo

7.

Which of the following languages belong to the group of Celtic languages?

a)

English

b)

Welsh

c)

Basque

8.

Which of the following languages belong to the group of Germanic languages?

a)

Slovenian

b)

Icelandic

c)

Estonian

9.

Maltese originated from...

a)

French

b)

Arabic

c)

Italian

10.

In which country French is NOT an official language:

a)

Belgium

b)

Switzerland

c)

Liechtenstein

11.

Italian shares 89 percent of its vocabulary with:

a)

Romanian

b)

French

c)

Spanish

12.

What are the two most common words in English?

a)

“I” and “you”

b)

“me” and “you”

c)

“yes” and “no”

13.

What is the newest recognized language in Europe (not necessarily only in EU)?

a)

Croatian

b)

Albanian

c)

Macedonian

14.

This language is the longest living language in Europe, and has no provable genealogical link to other languages. What is it called?

a)

Welsh

b)

Sardinian

c)

Basque

15.

Which language in Europe DOES NOT belong to the Finno-Ugric language group?

a)

Estonian

b)

Hungarian

c)

Yiddish

16.

Which language is NOT an official language of Norway?

a)

Norwegian

b)

Bokmål

c)

Sami

17.

This language became official in the country where it is mostly used only in 2009. Which language is it?

a)

Danish

b)

Finnish

c)

Swedish

18.

Which language is the newest member in the family of EU?

a)

Croatian

b)

Czeck

c)

Bulgarian

19.

Which language doesn’t have words for yes and no?

a)

Hungarian

b)

Irish

c)

Catalan

20.

Which language is sometimes called “Slavic Esperanto” as it is easiest to understand for speakers of different Slavic languages?

a)

Slovak

b)

Polish

c)

Czech

21.

In Irish they have 3 types of numbers, what are they used for?

a)

mathematics, years, objects

b)

people, things, animals

c)

mathematics, people, things

22.

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!)

a)

Hungarian

b)

Turkish

c)

Estonian

23.

In which language do people say “cheers” this way?

a)

Czech

b)

Latvian

c)

Irish

24.

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”.

a)

Finnish

b)

Swedish

c)

Estonian

25.

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."

a)

Finnish

b)

Irish

c)

Lithuanian

26.

What expression is used in Danish to describe “the worst, most boring thing ever”?

a)

the sausage of death

b)

like a dead herring

c)

worse than a dead pig

27.

There’s a saying in Polish “Not my circus, not my monkeys”. What does it mean?

a)

I don’ t know, I have no experience with this

b)

it’s not my problem

c)

Don’t blame me, it wasn’t my idea