Yes I was interested about that one as well - apparently it's related to the Proto-Indo-European 'porkos' (and hence the Latin porcus), which I wouldn't have guessed but which makes sense given the p-b-v thing that happens between Indo-European languages. Apparently in English we have a word 'farrow' for a litter of piglets, but I'd never heard of that before.
Pig was an easy one for me. Knowing that aardvark means "earth pig" in Afrikaans, I figured the Dutch word for pig would be similar. "Face" is the one that gave me the most trouble.
Being French (that only helped for raspberry though), speaking English and having sufficient knowledge of German, it's remarkably easy to get at least three quarters of them right. I guess that reputation of Dutch to be easy to learn for people who speak Germanic languages is in part well-deserved.
This is the closest foreign language to English - you should be able to get two thirds of them from sounding about right. A smattering of German and French covered the rest.
Frisian is supposedly the closest living language to modern English. If you listen to it being spoken, it really does sound like what I imagine English would sound like if I were having a stroke while listening to it.
100% by speaking English as a second language, a tiny bit of French and much tinier bit of German. I love these quizzes! I need more of them in other Indo-European & Turkic languages!
Great quiz
Nice quiz series, thanks.
German: Bibliothek
French: Bibliothèque
Spanish: Biblioteca
Portuguese: Biblioteca
Italian: Biblioteca
Polish: Biblioteka
English: L I B R A R Y
There are only a few words which are not similar to the german version.