It's a bit stupid to even say that though as 99% of the population speaks English only anyway while Irish is more of a thing that students just learn in schools and forget as soon as they leave.
I thought we were talking about NATO for a sec and was like, why doesn’t Norwegian works!? Like it’s part of NATO, then remember we’re talking about the EU
Well, they do, as do the people in Ireland, but Gaelic is also official. Not the case with Luxembourgish though. It is up to the country's own discretion to decide whether to inquire for a local language to be included as official for the EU. Maltese and Irish people understand perfectly English. Nevertheless, they have asked for their local languages to be included. This burdens the EU budget - translation costs, etc.
Well we do know perfect English,but we still consider it to be a foreign language. We speak in Maltese in every other occasion unless its academics or speaking with foreign people/ tourists. Not including Maltese as an official language is like not recognising Dutch as the official language for the Netherlands because most of them understand English...
Not everybody does understand or speak English perfectly, and not everybody wants to. Insisting that everybody speaks your language and not theirs is the biggest reason that smaller minority languages die out. Why should I have to speak English to you, when you wouldn't speak Welsh or Irish to me? The Irish language is NOT called "gaelic", it is "gaeilge" and referred to as Irish. And please don't call somebody else's language a "burden" - that's pretty offensive, Mogysht.
Well, by the institutions of the EU - Commission, Parliament, Council. That's why it says EU languages. Some languages, such as Luxembourgish, are not official because Luxembourg has not applied for an official status of this language. If they did, Luxembourgish would become 'official'. The Irish applied for Gaelic and it is official.
Yeah, I remeber the day Gaeilge got added to the EU (it was only a few weeks ago) and my classmates and I were so happy even though we don't read the papers. (I have started to read them now, as Gaeilge, to improve on my Gaelige)
@ander217 Often non english speakers avoid many of the most prevalent mistakes that native english speakers do make. Like there their and their, and you're and your, and there was a third common mistake I believe, ow yea too and to (but i think that is one that non english speakers get wrong quite often aswell, but either group often get that one wrong just by typing too fast. )
Maybe some of them are getting older like me. When I was young I was a good speller and never mixed up homophones. Now when I send an email I have to proofread it a couple of times because I nearly always make those mistakes without realizing it. I also confuse words that are near each other in sound or spelling, such as forward and toward. It's very upsetting to read back over a message and realize I've inserted the word town, for example, instead of toward. I'm not nearly so critical of poor grammar or bad spellers now that I are won two. :)
I didn't mean Serbian but Sorbian, an official minority language in Germany and recognised as such. Sami and Suomi are different languages, too. As I said - your quiz collects official languages of the EU, not of the EU countries, as the introduction says.
It's an official language in Scotland, but it is not an official language of the EU. Why is this such a bloody difficult concept to understand? The quiz is not asking for any language that has official status within parts of individual constituent members of the EU, but official languages of the EU. There's a world of difference between those two things.
The first instruction is badly worded. As several have pointed out, there are languages with official status "in EU countries" (which you requested), such as Catalan, but do NOT have status as official EU languages. You should reword the question. A friend's sister used to work in Brussels handling translation services for EU - can you imagine the difficulty in finding someone speaking both fluent Maltese and Estonian! Probably no more than 10 people in the world.
Turkish is spoken in Northern Cyprus, which is only recognized by Turkey. Luxembourg also speaks French and German. The EU doesn't give every language spoken in an EU country "official" status. Otherwise there would be Catalan, Basque, Manx, and quite a few other languages on this quiz.
The caveat doesn’t specify whether the EU won’t use Cyrillic/Greek scripts, or if it just won’t accept an answer written in that language. It threw me off for a bit too, until I entered in Greek and it worked.
My strategy is I do the best i can on the first try then i study the answers and then I do the ones i missed first and the i type the obvious ones like french
Ugh I forgot irish, did get malta though.. and I knew/tried the others I missed but apparently wrote them wrong. I know the countries in english, but to turn those words into the names of the language isnt allways as easy (especially since it isnt consistant , some are -ish others are -ian etc) Wasted time on norway tried norwegian norse nordic....
Wow... I didn't even know Malta was a real country. I thought they made it up for The Maltese Falcon. Like Xanadu or El Dorado. You learn something new every day.
Seeing as the names in between parentheses are the names in the native language, I gather that Irish should be "Irish (gailge)" and not "Irish (gaelic)",
The description of the quiz is wrong. The languages included here are the ones having official status in the EU (as a whole) and not the languages having official status in EU countries as the description says. The latter includes all the answers of this quiz plus Luxembourgish (official in Luxembourg) and Turkish (official in Cyprus).
Luxembourgish is a national language in Luxembourg, which was a founding member of the EU. Any reason it isn’t included? I know it doesn’t technically have “official status,” but neither do German or French in Luxembourg, they’re administrative languages.
-It goes both ways, Maltese / Malta is covered by English and Irish / Ireland is covered by English.
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I was always under the assumption that most in Malta spoke English.
They all have Official Status in EU Countries. The quiz merely collects the Main languages of the States.
Here's a source: http://ec.europa.eu/languages/policy/linguistic-diversity/official-languages-eu_en.htm
Cheers,
Svet
I didn't mean Serbian but Sorbian, an official minority language in Germany and recognised as such. Sami and Suomi are different languages, too. As I said - your quiz collects official languages of the EU, not of the EU countries, as the introduction says.
And some are spoken in other countries: Italian in Vatican City and San Marino, Spanish in Andorra, French in Monaco... and a lot more.
Luxembourgish isn't an official language of the EU.
Vatican City, San Marino, Andorra, and Monaco are not in the EU.
- catalan, Galician, Valencian, Basque in Spain
- Basque Breton in France
- Flemish in Belgium
- Mirandês in Portugal ........
Oh, that's right. Liverpool isn't part of the EU.
The correct translation is "Gaeilge"
Less time??
That means that Letzebuergesch should be one, and other official languages of the country.
MISSED FRENCH AND CZECH