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Languages in the Olympic Games
Curiosidad: Simetría olímpica en su lema : One World , One Dream
En chino, este lema en sus dos mitades están compuestas por cinco caracteres; en español "Un Mundo, Un Sueño", por siete letras; y en inglés, "One World, One Dream", por ocho.
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<< It is a joke that French is an official language of the Olimpic Games. There are not important French sportists. >>
It is a joke that Spanish is an included in the website language of the Olympic Games. Spanish speaking countries captured few medals even bronze medals in the olympics and if you total those medals it's less than that of France's. Pathetic!
Spanish speaking countries have very few medals won in the Olympic history. Check this out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_count
<< Spanish speaking countries have very few medals won in the Olympic history. Check this out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_count >> So why is Spanish is included in that website why not Russian, German, Japanese, or Korean but Spanish?
It depend on several things.
You need to take into account the number of competitors too. For instance, Spanish is spoken by 287 competitors of Spain, 3 Andorra, 138 Argentina, 149 Cuba, 85 Mexico, 109 Venezuela, 27 Chile, 64 Colombia, some 50 Hispanics USA, 3 Equatorial Guinea, 25 Honduras, 22 Puerto Rico, 12 Peru, 12 Guatemala, 12 Uruguay, etc. By number of competitors, Spanish is second, after English. Russian is third (competitors of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc). Chinese and German are also in the top five.
South Korea got the most medals in the winter olympic games in Asia.
Our population is 1/30 of China's population and less than a half of Japan's population. We are amazing!!
<Super Korean, I remember a name: Byron Moreno. >
C'mon, that was even an olympic game!
I'd say perhaps Beijing has been troubled by not having enough folks who can translate between at least Russian and Chinese.
Shouldn't they have lots of such folks on the border? XD
Here's a link to statistics on the popularity of languages in each country. French is ranked at number 18. However only half of those speakers (67 million) speak it natively so it really ranks around 21.
http://www.vistawide.com/languages/top_30_languages.htm This makes me wonder how France convinced the Olympic Committee to make it one of the three official languages used for commentary during the events. Any guesses?
<< Here's a link to statistics on the popularity of languages in each country. French is ranked at number 18. However only half of those speakers (67 million) speak it natively so it really ranks around 21. >>
Native number of speaker is 79 million according SIL-Ethnologue(1999). It makes me wonder too that Spanish is included as official langauge in the olympics when it is very low when it comes to number of secondary speakers (20 million) and non-native speakers. http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
<< For instance, Spanish is spoken by 287 competitors of Spain, 3 Andorra, 138 Argentina, 149 Cuba, 85 Mexico, 109 Venezuela, 27 Chile, 64 Colombia, some 50 Hispanics USA, 3 Equatorial Guinea, 25 Honduras, 22 Puerto Rico, 12 Peru, 12 Guatemala, 12 Uruguay, etc.
By number of competitors, Spanish is second, after English. >> Yeah. But when it comes to final medal tally, the number of medals won by Spanish speaking countries is not even in the top 20 if you consider them just a single country. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! |