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What do you think about riddles? A riddle is an excellent exercise for our brains. It is quite useful for enhancing our intelligence, attention, and speed in understanding what the riddle is talking about.

As the Cambridge Dictionary explains, a riddle is a type of question that describes something in a difficult and confusing way and has a clever or funny answer, often asked as a game; something that is confusing or a problem that is difficult to solve. Please check: Cambridge Dictionary – Riddle

Here are some riddles in the five languages I speak. Let’s see who can guess them:

Italiano- Riddle: La mia vita può durare qualche ora, quello che produco mi divora. Sottile sono veloce, grossa sono lenta e il vento molto mi spaventa. Chi sono?

Español- Riddle: Lleva años en el mar y aún no sabe nadar.

English- Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

Português- Riddle: Somos muitos irmãozinhos em uma só casa vivemos, se nos coçam a cabeça, num instante morremos.

Norsk- Riddle: Hvem er det som er sønn av mine foreldre, men likevel ikke min bror?

Isn’t this cool? Let’s try to guess them!

Please write the answers if you know them!

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Answers: Italiano- La candela; Español- La arena; English- The stamp; Portugués- Os fósforos; Norsk- Meg selv.

Same words said in a whole different way

I picked TEN words with the same meaning but completely different writing in Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese and Norwegian.

In these cases it is curious to discover, as we are in contact with languages that belong to the same linguistic families (Italian, Spanish and Portuguese are neo-Latin, Norwegian and English are Germanic), that there is no evolution or similarities between them.

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