Benefits of being bi/multi-lingual
Spanish Learner Profiles
History of Spanish
How language works
100
What are the top 3 languages spoken?
Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English
100
Identify the following Spanish learner profile: Inquirers.
Indagadores
100
Spanish came from what dead language?
Latin
100
What is a meme?
Something that is mimicked, duplicated, repeated and imitated.
200
How many people speak Mandarin Chinese?
882 million
200
Identify the following Spanish learner profile: Reflective
Reflexivos
200
What are the five Romance languages (languages that came from Latin)?
Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian
200
What is a complex system of communication?
A language.
300
Bilinguals are likely to make fewer errors while _____.
Driving
300
Identify the following Spanish learner profile: We show empathy, compassion and respect.
Solidarios
300
What happened in Spain in the year 711 and till when did this last?
The Umayyad conquest (Arab occupation) lasted until 1492.
300
What do signals (words) + meanings create?
Language, communicated messages
400
What are you less likely to be if you speak a second language?
A racist
400
Identify the following Spanish learner profile: We critically appreciate our own cultures and personal histories.
De mentalidad abierta
400
What were the two kingdoms that Fernando and Isabel came from?
Aragón (Fernando) and Castilla (Isabel)
400
What does each language have that words fall in to?
A structure (grammar)
500
Name 1 illness that speaking a second language delays.
Dementia or Alzheimer disease
500
Identify the following Spanish learner profile: We approach uncertainty with forethought and determination.
Audaces
500
What is the proper name for the reconstructed proto language linguists created? When and where was it spoken?
Proto-Indo-European was spoken in Eastern Europe around 3500 BCE.
500
What does structure do for language?
It keeps everything in order. Places everything where it belongs.
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