Twenty questions (most of the answers can be found in the above website!):
- What is a mother tongue?
- What word means “the love of long words”?
- How many people in the world speak two or more languages?
- About how many languages are spoken in the world’s 189 countries?
- How many indigenous languages are spoken in Europe?
- Which language contains the most words?
- Is there one universal sign language?
- What sound does an English frog make!?
- What does “higgledy-piggledy” mean?
- What does “yaourt” also mean in French?
- From what language does the word “plubairnigh” come from?
- How many languages does Natalie Portman speak?
- Which is the longest word in the English language?
- What is your favourite word?
- How do you say “talk to me!” in sign language?
- Are you able to say "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed" without making a pronunciation mistake?
- Who initiated the European Day of Languages?
- What is the purpose of the European Day of Languages?
- How many languages do you speak?
- Which foreign languages would you like to master (better) and why?
