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Category: Quiz questions

Where in the world?

30 September 2007 By Simon

Here’s a photo of a mystery town somewhere in Europe. Do you know or can you guess where it is, and which language is spoken there?

Mystery town

Clue: I visited this town recently.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions, Travel8 Comments

Name the language

29 September 2007 By Simon

Here’s a recording of a mystery language sent in by TJ. Any ideas which language it is?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions22 Comments

Name the language

23 September 2007 By Simon

Here’s a recording of a mystery language. Can you guess or do you know which language it is?

Clue: this is a member of the Tibeto-Burman family of languages spoken in parts of Thailand, Burma and China.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions6 Comments

Language quiz

22 September 2007 By Simon

Here’s a recording of a mystery language. Can you guess or do you know which language it is, and where it’s spoken?

Clue this is an Indo-European language.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions17 Comments

Language quiz

2 September 2007 By Simon

Here’s another recording of a news bulletin in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions8 Comments

Language quiz

1 September 2007 By Simon

Here’s a recording of a news bulletin in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions10 Comments

Language quiz

26 August 2007 By Simon

Here is a recording of me saying the names of five places in England. Each is spelt in a way that doesn’t match the pronunciation. Can you work out which places they are?

Posted in English, Language, Quiz questions9 Comments

Where in the world?

25 August 2007 By Simon

Here is a photo of a mystery city. Can you guess or do you know where it is, and which languages are spoken there?

Photo of mystery city

Here’s a clue – this is the capital of a country in Europe.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions, Travel10 Comments

Where in the world?

19 August 2007 By Simon

Here’s a photo of a mystery city. Do you know or can you guess where it is and which language is spoken there?

Mystery city

Here’s a clue: this city is in South America.

Posted in Language, Quiz questions, Travel6 Comments

Language quiz

18 August 2007 By Simon

Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is?

Posted in Language, Quiz questions15 Comments

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