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Posted on February 2, 2017January 20, 2020

[For the OxfordWords blog:] Quiz: French words no longer used in French

France Road

This interactive quiz works much betterĀ over on OxfordWords, where it was published on July 14, 2015.

Posted on January 9, 2017January 20, 2020

[For the OxfordWords blog:] Quiz: can you guess the language?

Different nationalities

This interactive quiz works much better over on OxfordWords, where it was published on October 4, 2016.

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About Joanna the Nomad

Joanna Rubery worked for Oxford Dictionaries on and off for over fifteen years, and now writes and edits children’s literature. She has also spent considerable time as a travelling writer and musician while teaching English around the world. So far she’s lived and worked in Belgium, Cambodia, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Germany, Japan, India, and Spain. She’s also worked voluntarily in Peru, and spent a lot of time in Ireland.

Joanna’s travel writing and articles on language have been published by Oxford University Press, Wanderlust, and the Christchurch Press. She has also won and been placed in several Very Short Fiction competitions, and her short stories have been published in Narrative magazine and the Grindstone Literary Anthology.

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