Tag: Czech language
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Articles or the articles? Stop torturing Slavic people
Learning a foreign language is not nuclear science even though people who are nuclear scientists (and have enormously high IQs) may struggle with it as the “g factor” is not an exact science. The beautiful English language is one of the easiest tongues to learn. And luckily it is lingua franca. But is there any…
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Is the Czech culture really Slavic? We have no clue
I always hear the Czech culture is Slavic with a strong German influence. I can’t deny that the Czech language is Slavic. It same goes for some folk habits. There is no doubt. However, when you want to prove some causation, you must at least use some factor analysis. And how do you prove some…
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The ordeal of being a Czech native speaker
Imagine being an English language native speaker. You can use your language wherever you are. You can reach out to a 1 billion audience without learning a foreign language. All the difficult and bookish words create your rich vocabulary (I used to be on the path to having a rich English vocabulary but the illnesses…