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You are playing as a guest. Sign in to save your progress & unlock rewards!English is the most widely spoken language worldwide as of 2021. There are around 1.35 billion people who speak English either natively or as a second language. That's a little more than the 1.12 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers. Meanwhile Hindi and Spanish account for the third and fourth most widespread languages. As we become increasingly connected, English has assumed a position of the dominant language of global communication, notably on the internet.
Did you know that many English words are actually borrowed from other languages? For example, the term 'chauffeur' comes from the French term for stoker. Even more surprisingly, the word 'grammar' is derived from the Greek wordย grammatikฤ meaning 'art of letters'.
This quiz will challenge your ability to identify the origin of many common English words that have their roots in either Dutch or Spanish. Have a go and see how many of these words you can match to their source language correctly!
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11 Comments
I got 11 out of 20!
You passed! It is no easy feat but you did it. Do you have Dutch or Spanish blood in your family history?
Nope, no Spanish or Dutch blood!
My family is 100% Japanese blood.
I got 18 out of 20!
Great job! You are extremely well-versed in these words with Dutch and Spanish origins. You must be an English professor!
Just a matter of repeating the English word several times and then judging its feel as to whether its root is Dutch or Spanish. Also some of words are for things that occur in cold flat vs. hot and sultry places.
12/20, all guesses.
19/20
12/20. Bit hard llots of guessing but ssays passed. Prob done this before as well.
10/20 50% Surprised it says passed, hard, no clue, scraped half marks, guessed half wrongly guessed other half, Oh well never mind just how the cookie crumbles.
I got 11 out of 20!
You passed! It is no easy feat but you did it. Do you have Dutch or Spanish blood in your family history?
20/20 awesome!!!!
15 / 20 They were all guesses.
Better than I thought
12/20 i had no idea what each language sounded like, halfway into the quiz i understood and gained 9 marks