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European Day of Languages QUIZ

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Esperanto was founded by ...

a)

the Polish oculist Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof

b)

the Spanish doctor Juan Esperanto

c)

the Columbian traveller Miguel Esperantoss

2.

How many lanuages are spoken in London?

a)

about 50

b)

about 100

c)

about 300

3.

Italian didn't officially become the official language of Italy until ...

a)

2017

b)

2007

c)

1007

4.

The longest word of all European languages comes from ...

a)

Hungarian

b)

German

c)

Polish

5.

Which European language is similar to Sanskrit?

a)

Lithuanian

b)

Dutch

c)

Iranian

6.

Hebrew and Arabic are written ...

a)

from up to down

b)

from right to left

c)

from left to right

7.

About 45% of English words come from

a)

Latin

b)

French

c)

German

8.

What is a 'tongue twister'?

a)

A sequence of words or sounds that are dfficult to pronounce

b)

A person who often mispronounces words or sounds

c)

The longest word in a given language

9.

The only languages in the world which capitalise nouns are ...

a)

German and Latin

b)

Japanese and Hungarian

c)

German and Luxembourgish

10.

In Spanish, an interrogative sentence is accompanied by ...

a)

two exclamation marks

b)

two full stops

c)

two question marks