Anyone who has been even once in McDonald’s during the last few years probably noticed that McDonald’s is a very multilingual company. McDonald’s franchises appear in many countries of the world and a lot of products and marketing materials target more than one country.
Theres is an interesting study of McDonald’s languages here. It is in a form of a quiz, which gives you a couple of phrases in some language and a choice of languages and asks you to guess which the correct language. It also provides some information about the language, such as the geography of the language and identifying characteristics. It can help you understand the differences between as many as 34 languages much better.
At least something good comes out of all those visits to McDonald’s…
3 responses so far ↓
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Lev Shuvalov
// Sep 29, 2004 at 12:20 pm
Wow! I’ve never heard Frisian???
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_language</a>
Most others I’ve seen but I’d some difficulties with northern eu languages
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Lev Shuvalov
// Sep 29, 2004 at 12:32 pm
Do you know in China so many languages with a huge amount of speakers? I didn’t
Mandarin (Chinese), 890 million
Wu (Chinese) 77 million
Cantonese (Chinese) 66 million
Min Nan (Chinese) 49 million
Jin (Chinese) 45 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
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Leonid Mamchenkov
// Sep 29, 2004 at 3:06 pm
[2] I knew only about Mandarin and Cantonese.
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