AI-assisted — how our quizzes are made
The world's most spoken languages, language families, and how many languages exist.
10 questionsWhere words come from — Latin, Greek, and the surprising origins of everyday English words.
10 questionsWords that travel — loanwords, false friends, and expressions that don't translate between languages.
Scripts, alphabets, writing systems, and the history of written language.
10 questionsIdioms, proverbs, linguistic curiosities, and the strange rules that make language so fascinating.
10 questionsThe word 'salary' derives from the Latin word 'salarium'. What does it refer to?
Gold paid to Roman senators
Salt — Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in or with money to buy salt
The Latin word for silver coins
A Roman tax on workers
The Cyrillic alphabet was developed to write which language family?
Germanic languages
Slavic languages
Turkic languages
Baltic languages
What does the English idiom 'it's raining cats and dogs' mean?
Animals are falling from the sky
It is raining very heavily
The weather is unpredictable
There is a thunderstorm approaching