The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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