Language of the Day! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Martes

According to Wikipedia, Spanish was the native language of more than 500 million worldwide as of 2022. It is also the second most-spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese! Although not an official second language of the United States, it is still commonly spoken and taught there.

Answer: Hebrew

More specifically, Classical Hebrew is the language of the Old Testament. It died out around 200 to 400 AD, and was no longer commonly used. However, modern Hebrew was revived in the 19th century and now boasts about 9 million speakers, according to Ethnologue.

Answer: Pyatnitsa

Russian has been cited as one of the hardest languages for English-speakers to learn! This might be in part because of its use of a whole different alphabet, something that Quizzyland unfortunately does not allow for. Russian has about 150 million native-language speakers and 110 million second-language speakers as of 2012, according to Wikipedia.

Answer: Dimanche

"Dimanche" is the word! Sontag, although it sounds more like the English word "Sunday", is actually German. French is not confined to use just in France, though; it's spoken around the world, including in Canada and sub-Saharan Africa. In 2022, it boasted 321 million speakers worldwide.

Answer: German

German actually shares more ties with English than you might think! English is also a Germanic language, and from that language family only English is spoken more than German. German is also the most-spoken language throughout the European Union.

Answer: Getsuyobi

Of course, this is not how "Getsuyobi" would be spelt in Japanese, considering that that language uses specific characters not encompassed by the English alphabet. Japanese is a widely-spoken language, boasting about 128 million speakers in 2020, according to Wikipedia. It is a part of the Japanese-Ryukyuan language family.

Answer: Thursday

Italian is part of the Romance language family, and is the most direct descendant of Latin. It is spoken throughout Italy, of course, as well as Switzerland and Vatican City. It is also commonly spoken in Canada and the U.S.A. in areas of Italian descent.

Answer: Yom Rishon

Surprisingly, Sabbath is not the Hebrew word for Sunday! However, whereas the Sabbath is Sunday in Christianity, in Judaism it is Saturday. Saturday is considered to be the seventh day of the week rather than Sunday in Judaism, which is the first day of the week.

Answer: Saturday

Japan does keep weekends of Saturdays and Sundays. However, some schools and other industries required students and workers to attend on Saturdays. Japan also has a similar statuary holiday policy to Canada and the U.S.A.

Answer: Russian

In Polish, Thursday is Czwartek, while in Swedish it is Torsdag. In German, it is Donnerstag. The Russian language has an alphabet of 33 letters, making it sometimes quite difficult to learn. However, attempts are always appreciated.