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Exploring the Italian Language

This quiz explores various aspects of the Italian language, including its history, phonetics, and cultural significance in Europe.

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1 Who of the following spoke at the Italian language?

2 It thus became expected that educated Europeans would learn at least some Italian; the English poet ________, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

3 All educated European gentlemen were expected to make the ________, visiting Italy to see its great historical monuments and works of art.

4 There are fewer cases of ________ than among speakers of languages such as English,[6] and the concept of a spelling bee is strange to Italians.

5 In England, Italian became the second most common modern language to be learned, after French (though the classical languages, ________ and Greek, came first).

6 Italian has seven ________ phonemes: \/a\/, \/e\/, \/ɛ\/, \/i\/, \/o\/, \/ɔ\/, \/u\/, represented by five letters: "a, e, i, o, u".

7 The three are part of the Italo-Western grouping of the ________, which are a subgroup of the Italic branch of Indo-European.

8 What family does Italian language belong to?

9 Italian was also one of the many recognised languages in the ________.

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💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Bovo-Bukh, a very popular chivalric romances written in Yiddish, was based on the Anglo-Norman romance of Sir Bevis of Hampton, by way of the Italian language romance of Buovo d'Antona.
  • the children's anime series The Littl' Bits has aired in Japanese, English, Spanish, Polish, German, and Italian.
  • the titles of the thirteen episodes of the Japanese animated television series Gunslinger Girl were given in Italian as well as Japanese.
  • the Wallachian poet Ion Heliade Rădulescu (pictured) advocated a radical transformation of the Romanian language on the basis of Italian neologisms.
  • an Enoteca, from the Italian for wine library, is a shop that offers tourists and visitors the opportunity to sample local wines for a reasonable fee.
  • Sabine Ehrenfeld, the Overstock.com spokesmodel, is fluent in German, French, English, and Italian and that she is an experienced pilot and equestrian.
  • Venetian, spoken in and around Venice, Italy, is not a dialect of Italian.
  • Interrabang was an Italian television adventure series about a secret treasure hidden inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
  • British athlete Don Thompson was nicknamed "Il Topolino" (Italian for "Little Mouse") when he raced to victory in the 50km walk at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while wearing a képi and sunglasses .
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