Froggy Jumps
Game prepared for the project "Gamification for Intercultural Education"
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It is the universal language of music, especially classic music. Some of the loanwords are: maestro, orchestra, crescendo and soprano.
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The Brothers Grimm wrote the first comprehensive dictionary for this language.
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In a Facebook poll hosted by CNN in 2014, this language claimed the title of the language with the sexiest accent.
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A word ‘America’ comes from this language.
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This language is also known as Suomi language.
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This language was originally written from right to left.
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This language uses inverted exclamation and question marks.
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From which language English borrowed words like: macho, avocado, mustang, lasso, canyon?
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Studies by the University of Lyon in France show that this language is the second fastest spoken language, with an average of 7.82 syllables spoken per second.
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Hans Christian Andersen wrote his fairy tales in this language.
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Which language is considered to be one of two official languages of Faroe Islands?
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From this language, comes the word ‘Bluetooth’. It is derived from the nickname of King Harald I.
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This language uses the cyrillic script instead of latin alphabet.
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In this language was published the first literary tale titled “Beauty and the Beast”, it was written in 1740?
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About a third to a half of basic English words come from this language:
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If you find a word with “w”, it’s only because it’s a borrowed word from a different language. This statement is true when we speak about:
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Fill in the blank: The first newspaper in ____ language was published in New York City in 1881.
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This language doesn’t have a word for yes or no.
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It’s the only modern pictographic language:
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The name “Goulas” originates from:
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Fill in the blank: Joseph Pulitzer, in his time he was one of the most powerful journalists in the United States, grew up speaking three languages fluently: German, French and...?
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Fill in the blank: In.... when introducing yourself, you should state your name after your surname.
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This language is totally different to the dialects spoken by its neighbours, which usually speak Indo-European languages. In fact, it comes from the Uralic region of Asia.
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This language uses three writing systems.
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The Old Testament, was originally written almost entirely in this langauge, with a few short elements in Aramaic.
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Around 200 AD, this language died out as an everyday spoken language, even though it had existed for many centuries before. It remained dormant for over 1500 years until it was revived in the 19th century.
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According to a 2019 study published by Ethnologue, this language rose from the fifth most studied language in the world to the fourth, preceded only by English, Spanish and Chinese.
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In this language, the middle name is considered a patronymic name or in other words, a name that is derived from the name of the father .
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Which language is considered to be the international language of space?
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The word Mukbang means “an online broadcast in which a host eats food while interacting with the audience”. From which language it comes from?
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This language has elaborate honorific’s system. For example, there are ten ways to address “you”, which depend on the status, relationships, and age of the people communicating.
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Linguists consider this language as a language isolate. This means it shows no significant link to any other existing language.
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Which language is the official language of airplane travel ?
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Examples of loanwords from this language include avatar, karma, mantra, nirvana and yoga.
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If you know this language, you’ll be able to communicate in Urdu.
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In this language words starting with a- are considered borrowed from another language.
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When English text is translated into this language, the text usually expands by 5-10%.
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It is the language of the New Testament and of all the Christian hymns.
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In this language, there’s no word for please. When the situation calls for courtesy, the word for ‘thank you’ (‘kiitos’) is used instead.
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