Learn A Foreign Language By Yourself
The Hungarian language is one of the stranger languages in Europe. It’s not Indo-European which is the language family of most of the languages spoken in Europe. How the Hungarian language, or Maygar, found its way to Central Europe is a complicated story, but the early ancestral language of the Hungarian people came from a … Read more
So how big is the Hindi lexicon? It’s hard to say… Counting the number of words that exist in a language is not a simple feat. Languages that are strictly controlled and governed by the official institution in charge of editing the official dictionaries, like the English “Oxford Dictionary” or the “Académie Française” both fall … Read more
Greek and Italian are two languages spoken in Southern Europe in Mediterranean countries with ancient histories and world-famous cultures. Greece and Italy have a lot in common. They’re the two countries that laid the foundation for what we consider western civilization today and they have a historical bond dating back to antiquity. They’re the birthplaces … Read more
Why do they speak German in Austria and not some other language? Well, to be fair, they don’t exactly speak the same German language as spoken in Germany. Austria has a relatively distinct dialect of German with its own vocabulary as well as a few variations in Grammar and pronunciation. It’s not as different as … Read more
I recently saw this question asked while browsing the web. Is French a dying language? I don’t believe in “bad” questions. The question might be oddly put, but I think that it hints at something a little deeper. French, a language spoken natively on all populated continents, might be slowly losing some of its importance. … Read more
The question is simple – is Dutch a Latin language? And the answer is pretty simple too: No it isn’t. Dutch is not Latin, but a Germanic language. It’s related to English, German, and slightly less so, the Scandinavian languages. The ancestor of Dutch was Frankish, a language spoken in Northern Europe, but despite the … Read more
Danish and German are two Germanic languages of Northern Europe and their shared ancestry shines through in many different ways, even though they do have important differences as well. Other languages in the same category include Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, and English. While Danish is very close to Swedish and Norwegian, German is much closer to … Read more
Below is an article, written by an un-named Algerian. While the ideas expressed are sometimes subjective, I agree with them very much, and they are representative of a point of view that many Algerians share. The Algerian language situation isn’t as clear-cut and easily definable as it’s the case with other countries. Arabic is the … Read more
Czech is a Slavic language closely related to Slovak, but also to Polish and a little more distantly to languages such as Russian and Bulgarian. It’s spoken by around 10 million people, most of whom live in the Czech Republic, a Central European country with loads to offer in terms of travel, cuisine, and more. … Read more
China is the most populous country on the planet with some 1,4 billion inhabitants. We all know that the Chinese speak Chinese. In reality, however, there are several (probably hundreds) forms of Chinese, Wu, Yue (Cantonese), and Mandarin being some of the big ones. In addition to that, a lot of other languages are spoken … Read more
