Tag: languages
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China: The language no one can cross
China trades with the world. It builds roads across continents. And it offers infrastructure deals and shipping ports. It signs deals with Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East. But it builds no real friendships. Even countries that benefit from Chinese trade speak cautiously. They do not trust its motives, they do not share…
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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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A language is a dialect with an army and navy
While we never learn who really said this but this quote is connected to Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich. Look at the Germans dialects. People don’t understand each other, yet there is one official variety the pupils and students are taught at the school. Now, look at the Czech and Slovakian cases. These languages are mutually…