Miaow, miaou, miao…. what sound does a cat make in your language?
Join us in the celebration of International Cat Day, established in 2002 to pay tribute to the special relationship between humans and cats and to advocate for the well-being of our furry little friends!
Playful and affectionate, cats know exactly how to show how much they care about you... And you, how well do you know our cute purring fellows? Test your knowledge with our selected speeches!
- Cats are originally from Sub-Saharan Africa. (FR, Speech 24111) ☐TRUE ☐FALSE
- The domestication of cats dates back to the 7th millennium BC. (FR, Speech 24111) ☐TRUE ☐FALSE
- Cats can go for an entire week without eating. (IT, Speech 27840) ☐TRUE ☐FALSE
For more interesting facts about cats, pets and animals in general, don’t miss the following speeches!
23132 (EN)
24984 (ES)
24154 (EN)
And now, appelons un chat un chat!
Even if you are not a cat person, as a language geek you will have noticed that many idioms have to do with cats… fascinating, isn’t it? In French we say “chat échaudé craint l'eau froide”, which means that an unpleasant experience induces caution; in Italian if “gatta ci cova” there is something fishy going on; in German “die Katze lässt das Mausen nicht”, indicating that old habits die hard; in Spanish if someone “tiene siete gatos en la barriga” they have suspicious intentions. There are many more sayings like these, can you think of any in your mother tongue? Well, here is another one for you in Portuguese: “vender gato por lebre”. Don’t know what it means? Would you like us to "let the cat out of the bag”? Just listen to speech number 28042 to understand the meaning of this expression in context!
Happy practice!
Your Speech Repository Team