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#Loanwords #Minionese #EnglishVocabulary 🍌⏳ It's countdown time!⏳ In just five 5️⃣days, millions of cinema-goers around the world 🌎 will once again be reunited with their favourite yellow troublemakers when Minions😄 & Monsters🖤 opens in cinemas on 1 July.📯 This third🥉 standalone Minions😝 film features a remarkable 15-minute sequence spoken entirely in Minionese😯. As discussed in a recent article in The Guardian, linguists have long noted that Minionese🥳 is not completely made up: mixed among the gibberish and sound effects are genuine loanwords borrowed from languages around the world. 👉 For further reading: The Guardian article on Minionese 😊and loanwords. Which raises an interesting question: 🤔 What exactly is a loanword?🤔 A loanword is a word that one language has borrowed from another language and adopted as its own. For example, English borrowed: 🧴 shampoo from Hindi 🥛 yoghurt from Turkish 🤖 robot from Czech 🍅 ketchup from Chinese (via Malay) 🪃 boomerang from an Aboriginal Australian language The funny thing is that loanwords are almost never returned! Once a word becomes popular and widely used, it usually becomes a permanent part of the language. 🤔 But just how much of English consists of loanwords?🤔 Before you do today's quiz, make a guess: What percentage of words in an English dictionary originally came from other languages?🤔 🔸 Less than 25% 🔸 Around 50% 🔸 More than two-thirds 🔸 Nearly 80% 👇 Complete today's quiz first, then scroll down to discover the answer. 🧠 Today's quiz is a little different. If you've used our DET 😃 practice exercises (👈click to see our last one) here on the channel, you'll know that the first question type in the Duolingo English Test asks you to decide whether a word is a genuine English word or not. Today, we're asking something slightly different:🧐 Is this word a loanword?🤯 In other words: Was this word borrowed from another language🇫🇷 and adopted into English🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿📖, or is it a native English 🇬🇧 word? Below in the poll-quiz are 10 common English words. For each one, decide: ✅ Loanword or ❌ Native English word Good Luck🤞

Score Guide 🤔💯 🏆 10/10 — Excellent vocabulary awareness. 🥇 8–9/10 — Strong DET-level word recognition. ion. 🥈 6–7/10 — Good effort, but watch out for spelling traps and convincing fake words. 🥉 Below 6/10 — Time to build your vocabulary and learn more common word roots such as hydro-, bio-, geo-, tele- and photo-. 💡 DET Tip: The Read and Select task isn't really testing definitions. It is testing recognition. The more word roots, prefixes and vocabulary families you know, the easier it becomes to spot real English words.