A Collins Gem pocket dictionary for the language of the winner's choice.
The winners were:
Sue Wontroba, Sutton Coldfield, UK. Sue writes:
I am 53 and self employed. One of my goals is to learn Spanish as we are hoping to be able to buy a property in Spain but although I have a set of tapes they just don't seem to get used!
Alan Johnson, aged 34, Montrose, UK.
Gillian Thompson, Oldham, UK. Gillian writes:
I am 37 years old and work part time as an admin assistant for an electrical company. I have just begun to try to learn Spanish partly because I have a property in Florida and we have a lot of Mexican guests but also because my son has begun Spanish at secondary school this year and I will hopefully be able to help him with his homework or more likely he will help me!!!
The questions
To enter the quiz, you had to answer the following questions:
From www.esperanto.net/veb/faq-3.html
How much Esperanto vocabulary is drawn from European languages (including Russian)?
Virtually all Virtually none
From www.zompist.com/lang16.html
Who traced the development of the idea that Eskimo languages have a great many words for "snow"?
Who summarised her work?
From www.learning-a-language.co.uk/language/polishoverview.html
Polish verbs possess a feature that can be either "perfective" or "imperfective", according to whether the action is completed or continuing. What is the name of this feature?
From www.thecelticplanet.com/breton.htm
If there is a Celtic language spoken in France, how many speakers does it have?
20 thousand
150 thousand
More than half a million
Three million
From www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ipa/vowels.html
How many vowel-symbols (the things that look like various kinds of letters) are there on the vowel-chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet?
