In this article, I’m going to interview Yulia, the mother of Bella, a 4-year old girl who speaks 7 languages. How many years did Bella speak? How old was Bella when she first spoke a foreign language? In your opinion, what prompted Bella to speak different languages at such a young age? Bella began to […]
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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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Traveling around ‘Eastern Europe’ is one of my passions as is learning languages. When I travel across this region I normally use Russian as it’s the most useful lingua franca for communication. Now that may surprise many readers, especially those who are used to speaking in English no matter where they travel. For historical and
Do you need local languages to travel successfully in Eastern Europe? Read More »
Russian is today an official language of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as, in certain regions that are de jure part of Georgia (Abkhazia & South Ossetia), Moldova (Transnistria & Gagauzia), Ukraine (almost 10 oblasts), Romania (several municipalities in Tulcea and Constanța countries) and Norway (Russian EZ in Spitsbergen). Moreover, Russian is
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