{"id":7974,"date":"2004-09-29T03:20:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/29\/the-34-languages-of-mcdonalds\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"the-34-languages-of-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/29\/the-34-languages-of-mcdonalds\/","title":{"rendered":"The 34 Languages of McDonald&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040929-mcdonalds_languages.jpg\" alt=\"McDonald's languages\"><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has been even once in McDonald&#8217;s during the last few years probably noticed that McDonald&#8217;s is a very multilingual company.  McDonald&#8217;s franchises appear in many countries of the world and a lot of products and marketing materials target more than one country.<\/p>\n<p>Theres is an interesting study of McDonald&#8217;s languages <a href=\"http:\/\/explorers.whyte.com\/34l\/\">here<\/a>.  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.<\/p>\n<p>At least something good comes out of all those visits to McDonald&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Anyone who has been even once in McDonald&#8217;s during the last few years probably noticed that McDonald&#8217;s is a very multilingual company. McDonald&#8217;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&#8217;s languages here. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/29\/the-34-languages-of-mcdonalds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 34 Languages of McDonald&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24113,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/14\/mcdonalds\/","url_meta":{"origin":7974,"position":0},"title":"McDonald&#8217;s","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 14, 2015","format":"image","excerpt":"McDonald's","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Instagram&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Instagram","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/photography\/instagram\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11241504_875221722539782_207357266_n.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11241504_875221722539782_207357266_n.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11241504_875221722539782_207357266_n.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10373,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/18\/mcdonalds-just-say-no-to-hummers\/","url_meta":{"origin":7974,"position":1},"title":"McDonald&#8217;s, Just Say No to Hummers!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"If you ever wanted to tell McDonald's corporation what you think of them, this is your chance. 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