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Celebrating European Day of Languages

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    Curiosities about languages spoken in the UK and minority languages?
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  • This is one of the longest words in any world's language: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? What language spoken in the UK does it belong to?
    Welsh it translates as: The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio’s of the red cave
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  • What's the meaning of this common English saying: ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY?
    a person who has failed or been hurt when trying to do something is careful or fearful about doing it again
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  • What's the meaning of this common English saying: TO BEAT ABOUT/AROUND THE BUSH
    discuss a matter without coming to the point.
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  • This Irish word: plubairnigh has a meaning no other language in the world has, what is it? a) rain fallen in the evening b) the sound of boiling porridge c) sad when leaving your hometown
    the sound of boiling porridge
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  • Can you please pronounce the hardest tonguetwister in English? The sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick
    YES/NO
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  • How many languages are spoken in Scotland as a native language? a) one b) two c) three
    Three: English, Scots and Gaelic
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  • What does a dog say in English?
    woof woof/ruff ruff/arf arf
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  • Resume is a false friend in English? What does it mean?
    begin again or continue after a pause or interruption.
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  • In how many ways can you pronounce the combination -ough in English? a) 6 b) 5 c) 8
    8 A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed
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  • For more than a century English aristocracy couldn't speak English, what language did they speak?
    French
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  • How many languages are spoken in Europe? a) 130 b) 225 c) 95
    225
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  • How many languages are spoken in London? a) 200 b) 500 c) 100
    200
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