I’ve been learning Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian over the last year and boy has it been interesting to see and hear the differences between these 3 East Slavic languages. Interested in learning Russian? Read our honest RussianPod101 review. As you should have noticed from the video, Ukrainian and Belarusian are a lot more similar […]
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You may have noticed, especially if you are a student of either language, that there are many similarities between the Romanian and Spanish languages. But just how similar are they? Can a native Spanish speaker easily understand a native Romanian speaker or vice versa? In this article, we will cover both the similarities, differences and
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I have had the pleasure of studying at university in both France and Italy so can really appreciate both countries’ cultures and languages. I learnt French on my Erasmus exchange year and it was my first foreign language to learn. My next language after French was Italian as I had fallen in love with the
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Both Polish and Russian are Slavic languages from the Indo-European family. I’ve learnt Russian over a long number of years and have in the past dabbled with Polish. In 2016, I started learning Ukrainian which is closer to Polish than Russian. As a result, Polish has become more understandable on my trips to Poland. The
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Both Polish and Ukrainian are Slavic languages from the Indo-European family. In late 2016, I started learning Ukrainian and have in the past dabbled with Polish. Learning Polish? Read our honest review of PolishPod101. As I already speak Russian, Ukrainian grammar was very familiar but the vocabulary was not obvious as it is a
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As a native speaker of English whose first foreign language was French, I find the history and interaction between these 2 major global languages fascinating. English is today by far the world’s most studied foreign language. According to the British Council a little under 1 billion have English as a foreign language. French was once used
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Colombia – the homeland of Sofia Vergara and Shakira, with a coastline on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea is a country in both South and Central America. Named after Cristopher Columbus, Colombia has around 45 million inhabitants and Bogota as its capital. In 1821 the Republic of Colombia became independent from Spain with borders
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Quebec French or Québécois has always been something of a mystery to me. I first came across it when I met a Québécoise exchange student at university and its different sounds (from standard French pronunciation) intrigued me. In 2016, I finally made it to Montreal (a city I had long wanted to visit) but for one
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