languages of the world flash
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Name the Language
How good is your knowledge of the
worlds main languages?
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WhichWorld Language?
Listen to each audio recording.
Try to name the language that is
spoken (2 pts). If needed. Get a hint. Youll see a
written script of the recording.
Guess again (1 pt). Find out your result at the end and
find out more about that language
of the world.
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Acknowledgments
The audio and text are readings from Article 1 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
Visit here for the full text. Watch the video.
Readings from Librivox and the U.N.
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Name The Language
All human beings are born freeand equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason
and conscience and should acttowards one another in a spirit
of brotherhood.
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Name The Language
English
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The English Language
English belongs to the Indo-
European family, Germanic group,
West Germanic subgroup and is
the official language of over 1.7
billion people. Home speakers are
over 330 million.
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Name The Language
Tous les tres humains naissent
libres et gaux en dignit et en
droits. Ils sont dous de raison et
de conscience et doivent agir les
uns envers les autres dans unesprit de fraternit.
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French
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The French Language
French belongs to the Indo-
European family, Romance group,
and is the official language of
nearly 200 million people. It is
spoken by over 124 million people,
including second language users in
all countries.
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Name The Language
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Russian
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The Russian Language
Russian belongs to the Indo-
European family, Slavonic group
and is spoken by over 290 million
people. Russian was the lingua
franca of the Russian Empire and
the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR).
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Japanese
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The Japanese Language
Japanese, spoken by more than 125
million people in Japan, ranks among
the top ten languages of the world.
Japanese is not, as is sometimesthought, genetically related to
Chinese, but rather to Korean and
other Altaic languages, such asMongolian.
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Name The Language
Alle Menschen sind frei und gleich an
Wrde und Rechten geboren. Sie sind mit
Vernunft und Gewissen begabt und solleneinander im Geiste der Brderlichkeit
begegnen.
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Name The Language
German
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The German Language
German belongs to the Indo-
European family and has nearly 120
million speakers. Since English is a
Germanic language, it is notsurprising to find a high degree of
similarity in the vocabulary of the
two languages.
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Name The Language
Tutti gli esseri umani nascono liberi
ed eguali in dignit e diritti. Essi sono
dotati di ragione e di coscienza edevono agire gli uni verso gli altri in
spirito di fratellanza.
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Italian
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The Italian Language
It belongs to the Indo-European
family, Romance group and is spoken
by over 60 million people. Of all themajor Romance languages, Italian
retains the closest resemblance to
the Latin spoken by the Romans.
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Chinese
(Mandarin)
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The Chinese Language
Chinese is the official language of
over 1.1 billion people and, as a
mother tongue, it is the most spoken
language in the world. Chinese is the
language of the Han people, the
majority ethnic group of China.
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Todos los seres humanos nacen
libres e iguales en dignidad y
derechos y, dotados como estn derazn y conciencia, deben
comportarse fraternalmente los unos
con los otros.
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Name The Language
Spanish
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The Spanish Language
Spanish belongs to the Indo-European
family, Romance group and is the
official language of over 330 millionpeople. Spanish is an important
immigrant language in numerous
countries.
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Korean
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The Korean Language
Korean is spoken by at least 75 million
people throughout the world, over 40
million in South Korea and over 20
million in North Korea. The Koreanalphabet (Hangul script), invented in
the years 1443-46, is the only true
alphabet native to the Far East.
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Name The Language
Todos los seres humanos nacen
libres e iguales en dignidad y
derechos y, dotados como estn derazn y conciencia, deben
comportarse fraternalmente los unos
con los otros.
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Name The Language
Portuguese
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The Portuguese Language
Portuguese belongs to the Indo-
European family, Romance group,
and is spoken by over 10 million
people in Portugal, and over 190
million in all countries where
Portuguese is the official language.
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Persian
(Farsi)
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The Persian Language
Persian, also known as Farsi belongs
to the Indo-European family and is
spoken by nearly 33 million people,
mainly in Iran. It is one of the world'soldest languages, a standard and
well-recognized tongue as early as
the 6th century B.C.
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Name The Language
Kaikki ihmiset syntyvt vapaina ja
tasavertaisina arvoltaan ja oikeuksiltaan.
Heille on annettu jrki ja omatunto, ja
heidn on toimittava toisiaan kohtaan
veljeyden hengess.
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Finnish
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The Finnish Language
There are approximately 5 million
speakers of Finnish, one of the few
languages of Europe not belonging to
the Indo-European family. Finnish, it
is agreed, is undoubtedly an
exceedingly difficult language to
learn.
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Bengali
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The Bengali Language
Bengali belongs to the Indo-European
family, Indic group, and is spoken by
over 120 million people in
Bangladesh and over 68 million in
India. Only five other languages in
the world can claim as many as 190
million speakers.
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Thai
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The Thai Language
Thai is spoken by 25 million people in
Thailand. Like Chinese, Thai is a tonal
language, meaning that different
tones, or intonations, distinguish
words that would otherwise be
homonyms.
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Name The Language
Btn insanlar hr, haysiyet ve haklar
bakmndan eit doarlar. Akl ve
vicdana sahiptirler ve birbirlerinekar kardelik zihniyeti ile hareket
etmelidirler.
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Turkish
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The Turkish Language
It belongs to the Altaic family, Turkic
group, and is spoken by nearly 60
million people. It is also an important
immigrant language in Germany. Tovarious degrees, Turkish is intelligible
with other major languages of
Central Asia.
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Alle mensen worden vrij en gelijk in
waardigheid en rechten geboren. Zij
zijn begiftigd met verstand engeweten, en behoren zich jegens
elkander in een geest van
broederschap te gedragen.
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Dutch
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The Dutch Language
Dutch belongs to the Indo-European
family, Germanic group and is spoken
by 20 million people, (nearly 14
million in the Netherlands). Flemish isthe name given to the language
spoken in Belgium and France.
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How did you do?
48 You are a polyglot, a genius!
36-47 Wow. You are Indiana Jones!
25-35 Doing well. A definite linguist.
15-24 Watch some more international films
0 -14 Youd better join National Geographic
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