{"id":2702,"date":"2018-07-11T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2018-07-11T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:41:22","slug":"languages-world-cup-textmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/languages-world-cup-textmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Languages World Cup with TextMaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All good things must come to an end&#8230; and so must the<strong> World Cup<\/strong>! After almost a month of competition and a lot of surprises, the final game will take place this Sunday 15th at the Loujniki Stadium in Moscow (starting at 4pm BST).<\/p>\n<p>Our area of expertise (as surprising as it may seem) isn&#8217;t football, but <strong>languages<\/strong>. That&#8217;s why we organised our own the <strong>Languages World Cup<\/strong>! Here&#8217;s a recap (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.textmaster.com\/hubfs\/4-Premiums\/EN-Premiums\/EN-LanguagesWC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2709\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.textmaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EN-LanguagesWC-256x1024.png\" alt=\"The Languages World Cup with TextMaster\" width=\"256\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EN-LanguagesWC-256x1024.png 256w, https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EN-LanguagesWC-75x300.png 75w, https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EN-LanguagesWC-624x2496.png 624w, https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EN-LanguagesWC.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>8 languages selected for the Languages World Cup<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For this unprecedented competition, we picked <strong>8 languages represented at the FIFA World Cup<\/strong> : Arabic, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. 5 facts &amp; figures allowed us to rank the languages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Languages with the most <strong>native speakers<\/strong> (in millions)<\/li>\n<li>Number of <strong>World Cups won<\/strong> by countries that speak this language<\/li>\n<li>Number of <strong>national teams<\/strong> speaking this language that have qualified for this World Cup<\/li>\n<li>Number of <strong>Ballon d&#8217;Ors won<\/strong> by football players speaking this language<\/li>\n<li>Number of countries in which this language is the or one of the <strong>official language(s)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even if the rythm of our own <strong>World Cup<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t as intense as in Russia, we still had a couple of great languages games, for instance Portuguese beating French 3 to 2! Some wins were also confirmed in the real competition: Uruguay won against Egypt during the group phase, just like <strong>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/enter-spanish-market\/\">Spanish<\/a> language won against the Arabic language<\/strong> (final score: 1-0 for football, 4-1 for languages!)<\/p>\n<p>In any case, <strong>congratulations to the French team<\/strong> that won yesterday night against Belgium, and <strong>good luck to England and Croatia for tonight<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-d18c56fa-8d71-4d9d-b195-2f5a93c3cc6f\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-d18c56fa-8d71-4d9d-b195-2f5a93c3cc6f\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-d18c56fa-8d71-4d9d-b195-2f5a93c3cc6f\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]>\n\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/2680086\/d18c56fa-8d71-4d9d-b195-2f5a93c3cc6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"hs-cta-img-d18c56fa-8d71-4d9d-b195-2f5a93c3cc6f\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/2680086\/d18c56fa-8d71-4d9d-b195-2f5a93c3cc6f.png\" alt=\"New Call-to-action\" width=\"750\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(2680086, 'd18c56fa-8d71-4d9d-b195-2f5a93c3cc6f', {}); <\/script><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All good things must come to an end&#8230; and so must the<strong> World Cup<\/strong>! After almost a month of competition and a lot of surprises, the final game will take place this Sunday 15th at the Loujniki Stadium in Moscow (starting at 4pm BST).<\/p>\n<p>Our area of expertise (as surprising as it may seem) isn&#8217;t football, but <strong>languages<\/strong>. That&#8217;s why we organised our own the <strong>Languages World Cup<\/strong>! Here&#8217;s a recap (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.textmaster.com\/hubfs\/4-Premiums\/EN-Premiums\/EN-LanguagesWC.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>8 languages selected for the Languages World [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textmaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}