Foreign Language Fun » Greek http://foreignlanguagefun.com Where Language Learning is Child's Play Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:40:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dinosaur in Foreign Languages: Spanish, French, German and More http://foreignlanguagefun.com/2009/05/dinosaur-in-foreign-languages-spanish-french-german-and-more/ http://foreignlanguagefun.com/2009/05/dinosaur-in-foreign-languages-spanish-french-german-and-more/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 00:43:21 +0000 Diane http://foreignlanguagefun.com/?p=3747

dinosaur skeleton

If my own two boys are any indication, kids looooooove dinosaurs!  Use these fascinating creatures to teach children about languages.  Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, used Greek terms to give dinosaurs their name back in 1841:  deinos means terrible or fearfully great, and saurus means lizard.   The Latin term for dinosaur is Dinosauria.  Most species of dinosaurs are named using Greek and Latin terms.  Want to talk about dinosaurs around the world?  Here’s how:

Spanish: el dinosaurio

French:  le dinosaure

Italian:  il dinosauro

Portuguese:  o dinossaurio

Dutch:  de dinosaurus

German:  der Dinosaurier

Know some more?  Leave a comment and keep this dinosaur list from going extinct!

 

Image Credit:  by scol22 at http://www.sxc.hu/photo/865320

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