Tag: linguistics
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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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The big language wall between Czechia and Slovakia
This could be a sequel to “A language is a dialect with an army and navy”. German dialects are much more different than Czech and Slovakian languages. The Slovakian language is heavily influenced by the Czech one to the degree that it is mutually intelligible. There were times (during the rise of nationalism) when activists…