Language Teacher

How many letters are there in the English alphabet?

26

"Mayday" comes from what language?

French

The Hebrew language comes from what country?

Israel

What can a heterosexual, fashion-conscious man be called?

Metrosexual

What does “draconian” mean?

Cruel

What does “procure” mean?

Obtain

What does “repose” mean?

Rest

What does the French word 'fourche' mean? 

Fork

What does the French word 'graisse' mean? 

Grease

What does the French word 'regarder' mean? 

Look

What does the French word 'vin' mean? 

Wine

What does the Latin abbreviation 'e.g.' mean? 

For example

What does 'tsunami' mean literally? 

Harbor wave

What has happened to something that has accumulated?

It increased

What is the hypothesis called that states that language dictates how we think? 

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

What is the official language in the Canadian province of Quebec?

French

What language is most commonly spoken in Canada?

English

Which language does the word 'khetsup' from which we get 'ketchup', originate from? 

Cantonese

Which of the following is a Hebrew greeting?

Shalom

Which of the following adjectives is NOT a superlative? 

Rear

Which of these English words doesn’t rhyme with any other word?

Orange

Which of these words does not have Arabic origins?

Alphabet

Which of these punctuation marks indicates a pause between parts of a sentence?

Comma

Which of these letters is definitely NOT a vowel?

T

What does the Greek word 'Nike' mean?

Victory

In part of which country is the Galician language spoken?

Spain

What are the dialects spoken in the south and central parts of Germany called?

High German

What does the American slang expression "pedal to the metal" mean?

As fast as possible

In Norway there are two official written languages, Nynorsk and...?

Bokmal

Which of the following languages is the closest relative of Hungarian?

Finnish

In which part of the world is Guarani spoken?

South America

Which country is Romansh spoken in?

Switzerland

What does the American slang expression "split the sheets" mean?

Get a divorce

What is the name of the Benedictine monk who according to the tradition discovered champagne?

Pérignon

Which of these is not a main lexical category?

Homonym

The Aragonese language is spoken in Aragon. Where is Aragon located?

Northeast Spain

Maria is the name of a language spoken in...?

India

Urdu is a language mainly spoken in two countries, India and...

Pakistan

Apart from Sinhalese, what is the official language in Sri Lanka?

Tamil

The French term "Le mot juste" was made by the author Gustave Flaubert and is an expression for what?

The perfect word to describe something

Afrikaans is a west Germanic language spoken for example in South Africa, but where are the roots of this language from?

The Netherlands

What does the American slang expression "bellows" mean?

Lungs

Uzbek is a language mainly spoken in Uzbekistan. What's the name of the country's capital?

Tashkent

What does the American slang expression "liquored up" mean?

Drunk

What is a panegyric?

Eulogy

From which language does the nowadays well-known word 'tsunami' come?

Japanese

What is the most common language in Pakistan?

Punjabi

Which of these words is not a preposition?

Not

What is "morpheme"?

The smallest unit in a language with its own meaning

What does the American slang expression "bananas" mean?

Crazy

What does the Latin abbreviation 'ibid.' mean?

In the same place

Umbrian was an ancient language spoken in...

Italy

What is the official language of Macedonia?

Macedonian

In which of the following countries is French NOT the official language?

Nigeria

Sami language is spoken in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Russia. How many different dialects does the language have?

10

In which of these countries do they NOT speak Portuguese?

Laos

Who created the artificial language Esperanto?

Ludwig Zamenhof

What is the adverb in the sentence "John recently got a book in the post"?

Recently

Which of these languages is not a part of the Germanic language group?

Finnish

How do you say "hello" in German?

Hallo

In China, what number is considered unlucky because it's similar to the Chinese word for "death"?

4

In the Russian language, female last names typically end with what letter?

A

The phrase "deja vu" comes from what language?

French

What does "vilify" mean?

Criticize harshly

What has happened to something that has accumulated?

It increased

What is the Russian alphabet known as?

Cyrillic

What's the main dialect of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong?

Cantonese

What type of words in the German language are always capitalized?

Nouns

Which of these is not an official language of the United Nations?

German

What is the plural form of the word "crisis"?

Crises

What is the Swedish word for "hello"?

Hallå

What does "requisite" mean?

Necessary

The Hindi language comes from what country?

India

"Karaoke" means what in Japanese?

Empty orchestra

The French phrase "c'est la vie" means what?

That's life

How do you say "hello" in Mandarin Chinese?

Ni Hao

The word "loot" comes from what language?

Hindi

What does "pedantic" mean?

Overscrupulous

The Sicilian language comes from what country?

Italy

How many letters are there in the Latvian alphabet?

33

What brothers helped lay the groundwork for modern Germany literary language?

Grimm

Which of these is not a Latvian dialect?

Center

Samogitian

The Japanese phrase "domo arigato" means what?

Thank you very much

The word "molasses" comes from what language?

Portuguese

How do you say "I love you" in Italian?

Ti amo

There's a word for very bad English, often with mistakes from a translation. What's the word?

Engrish

Brow is another name for...

Forehead

What does the greek word 'Protein' mean?

The most important

What does "In Vino Veritas" mean?

In wine, truth

What does the word 'Islam' mean?

Submission

How many letters are there in the Russian alphabet?

33

Mandarin is the most popular spoken language in the world. Which language comes second (2010)?

Spanish

Australia has taken its name from the Latin 'australis'. What does it mean?

Southerly

What does the American slang expression "what's up?" mean?

What are you doing?

The standard English in Great Britain is also called...

Oxford English

What does the American slang expression "the 411" mean?

Information

In which of the following African countries is French NOT the official language?

Somalia

The word "Algebra" is a loanword from which language?

Arabic

Esperanto is an international help language that you should be able to speak everywhere. What is the term for these "made up" languages?

Constructed language

What are the phrases "lest we be..." and "whether it be..." examples of?

Conjunctive formulations

What is the name of the most widely spoken language on Greenland?

Kalaallisut

The expressions "an eloquent silence" and "bittersweet" are examples of...

Oxymoron

Finnish is spoken in which country apart from Finland, Sweden and northeast Russia?

Estonia

Amharic is the official language of this country.

Ethiopia

Which of the following countries does NOT use the Cyrillic alphabet?

Hungary

What does the Latin imperative 'Fiat lux' mean?

Let there be light

Around what percent of English words are of Dutch origin?

1%

From what country does the Zarma language come? 

Niger

How do you say "Gorilla" in French?

Gorille

How many consonants are there in the Czech language? 

25

How many letters are there in the Italian language?

21

The Dutch language closely mirrors what language?

German

The longest word in the English language contains how many letters? 

45

The phrase “dog and pony show” is typically used to describe what?

Sales pitch

The Urdu language comes from where? 

Pakistan

What book was first published in Italian? 

The Adventures of Pinocchio

What does “mea culpa” mean in Latin?

Through my fault

What has happened to something that has accumulated?

It increased

What is a group of bears known as?

Sleuth

What kind of word is “I”?

Pronoun

What type of language is Romanian?

Romatic

Which of these letters can’t normally be found in the Italian Language?

X

"Flagitious" means what?

Villainous

What language is mostly common spoken in Madagascar?

Malagasy

What is a group of turkeys known as?

Rafter

The word "vapid" was once used to describe what?

Liquor

The term "hackneyed" means what?

Unoriginal

Which of these is not an example of a Celtic language?

Galician

What is a maxim?

Words of wisdom

The number of grammatical cases is very different in languages. Which language is known for having many cases?

Finnish

What is meant by a language's phonemes?

The language's sounds

Which of the following is NOT likely to be the life and soul of the party?

The Puritan

What language do the Cherokee speak?

Cherokee

Etymology is the science of a word's...

Origin

What is the name of the language that's spoken by three million Jews worldwide?

Yiddish