The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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