Exploring Languages Semester Review Questions
Use your notes, pronunciation guides, maps, and your book to answer the following in
complete sentences.
1. What is language?
2. Why do we converse (talk)?
3. What is the difference between a pictograph and an ideograph?
4. Which two groups of people were first to use an alphabet?
5. What are three “other” types of communication we discussed?
6. What is a symbol?
7. What types of scientists study language?
8. Name the two types of theories regarding the origin of languages.
9. How are languages of the world assigned to families?
10. In what year did the Normans invade England?
11. What happened to the English language after the Normans invaded? (In other
words, what did they bring with them?)
12. What is the simplest unit of meaning?
13. How do we know if a language is rich?
14. When do languages “coin” new words?
15. What is structure?
16. An inflected language makes use of what?
Latin
7. Translate the following:
Quis es?
Sum
Quid agis?
Valeo
Recte
Non male
Non bene
8. What phrase goes on the end of the first word in a sentence to form a question?
9. What phrase goes on the end of “Salve” and “Vale” when you are talking to more
than one person?
10. Does word order matter in Latin?
11. Translate the following:
Quoque
Amicus
Discipulus
Bonus
Sed
12. Who spoke Latin, and can you go somewhere that speaks it today?
13. Translate the numbers 1-20, 100 and 1,000.
12. Write the numbers 1 – 20, 100, and 1,000 in Roman Numerals.
13. Would you study Latin? Why? or Why not?
14. List 10 roots, prefixes, or suffixes, the definition for each, and one example word
for each.
Chinese
Answer the following questions by looking in your notes and your overview. Don’t forget
your map, either.
1. Translate the following:
What is your name?
My name is_____.
How are you?
Great!
Okay.
See you tomorrow.
Goodbye.
2. How many Hanzi characters are there? How many are most frequently used?
3. What is capital of China?
4. Name the 3 major rivers in China.
5. Translate the following:
Good night.
Not so good.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Hello
6. Write the numbers 1-20.
7. Would you study Chinese? Why? or Why not?
Spanish
1. Write down all the ways to say “hello” in Spanish that you learned.
2. Write down all the ways you learned to say “goodbye” in Spanish.
3. Write down the two ways you learned to ask “What is your name?” in Spanish.
4. Write down how you would say “My name is _____.”
5. Write down the two ways you would ask “How are you?” in Spanish.
6. Write down all the possible answers you learned in Spanish to the question “How
are you?”
7. Write down the two ways to say “Nice to meet you.” in Spanish, and the one
response in Spanish.
8. Write the numbers 0-31 in Spanish.
9. Write the Spanish days of the week.
10. Write the Spanish months of the year.
11. Are the days or months capitalized in Spanish?
12. What day of the week is the first day of the week on the Spanish calendar?
13. Write the following dates in Spanish:
October 19th
May 10th
14. Write down all the colors in Spanish you learned.
15. Name 2 Spanish-speaking countries and their capitals.
16. Would you study Spanish? Why? or Why not?
French
14. Write down the two ways to say “hello” in French that you learned.
15. Write down how you learned to say “goodbye” in French.
16. Write down how you learned to ask “What is your name?” in French.
17. Write down how you would answer “My name is _____.”
18. Write down how you would ask “How are you?” in French.
19. Write down all the possible answers you learned in French to the question “How
are you?”.
7. Write down how to say “Nice to meet you.” in French.
15. Write the numbers 1 – 20 in French.
16. Write down all the French-speaking countries.
17. How many letters are in the French alphabet?
18. Who would you say “Bon jour” to and who would you say “Salut” to?
17. Why would French be considered a global language?
18. Would you study French? Why? or Why not?
German
20. Write down the two ways to say “hello” in German that you learned.
21. Write down how you learned to say “goodbye” in German.
22. Write down how you learned to say “What is your name?” in German.
23. Write down how you would say “My name is _____.”
24. Write down the 2 ways you would ask “How are you?” in German.
25. Write down all the informal answers you learned in German to the question “How
are you?”.
7. Write down all the formal answers you learned in German to the question “How
are you?”
19. Write the numbers 1 – 20 in German.
20. Write down all the German-speaking countries.
21. How many letters are in the German alphabet? (Don’t forget the umlauted vowels
and the estett.)
22. What English letter do “f” and “v” both sound like?
19. What English letter does “w” sound like?
20. Do both letters get pronounced in the letter combinations “ps,” “pf,” and “kn”?
21. Many musical composers came out of the German-speaking world. Please name
one, and one thing you can remember about them.
22. Would you study German? Why? or Why not?
Japanese
26. Write down all the ways to say “hello” in Japanese that you learned.
23. Write down all the ways to say “Goodbye.” in Japanese.
27. Write down how you learned to say “What is your name?” or “Are you _____?”
in Japanese.
28. Write down how you would say “My name is _____.” or “I am _____.”
29. Write down how you would say “How are you?” in Japanese.
30. Write down all the answers you learned in Japanese to the question “How are
you?”
7. How do you say “Nice to meet you.” in Japanese?
24. Write down the numbers 1-20 in Japanese.
25. Write down how to say “Good morning, “ “Good day,” and Good evening” in
Japanese.
26. How many letters or characters are in the Japanese hiragana alphabet?
23. True or false. The Japanese vowels sound the same as the vowels in Spanish.
24. Would you study Japanese? Why? or Why not?