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7 fact-checked facts about foreign languages and world cultures, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.

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The basics

What does the Spanish word gracias mean?

AnswerThank you

Gracias is the everyday Spanish word for thank you.

Arigato means thank you in which language?

AnswerJapanese

Arigato, or arigatou, is Japanese for thank you.

Going deeper

How many official languages does the United Nations have?

AnswerSix

They are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

What is the Korean alphabet called?

AnswerHangul

Hangul is the Korean writing system; kanji and hiragana are Japanese.

An exchange rate compares what?

AnswerThe values of two currencies

An exchange rate tells you how much of one currency buys another.

Expert level

What makes the Basque language notable?

AnswerIt is a language isolate unrelated to other living languages

Basque has no proven relatives among living languages.

Besides hieroglyphs and Demotic, which script appears on the Rosetta Stone?

AnswerAncient Greek

The Greek text helped scholars decode the Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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