What languages are difficult?

Classifying all the second languages into easy and difficult ones is almost the same as, for example, classifying all the books according to the degree how interesting they are. Everybody will classify them in his/her own way but such a kind of classification can never be objective.

How to Define a Language in a Written Text?

 Source: http://www.globallanguageservices.co.uk/british-really-bad-speaking-foreign-languages/

Is it so easy to define a language if you encounter a text written in a language you don’t know?

The Importance of Using Standard Terms

When you were translating some texts for special purpose, have you ever realised, how important it is to look for exact terminological equivalents in the target language?

The Reasons why to learn Croatian

Croatia Girls (Source: http://paradiseintheworld.com/croatia/)

1. Croatia is a country, which is extremely attractive for tourists. Especially attractive are various Croatian cities, such as Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Dubrovnik, Poreč, Rovinj, or such natural places of interest as Plitvice Lakes National Park (Nacionalni park Plitvička jezera). If you want to save costs, it would be better to rent an apartment instead of staying in a hotel. However, Croatian landlords are hardly proficient in English and other West-European languages. Some of them can speak Italian (especially in Istria), but not everybody. Therefore, it is very important to be able to communicate with them in Croatian. 

English Video Courses for Russian-Speakers

General video courses (общие видеокурсы):

The Reflection of the “Student Revolution” in West Berlin in a Ukrainian Novel

This is an extract from “Daniela”, a novel written by Mykola Czerjoszyn, a modern Ukrainian writer living in Germany.

The main character of this novel is a contemporary of ours. Suddenly he recollected one of his previous lives, when he used to be a German young lady, who studied in West Berlin in the late 1960s and took an active part in the revolutionary events of 1967/68 but later prematurely died in a nonsensical accident.

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English Telephone Phrases

Telephone conversation has its specific language containing the phrases never used in any other spheres of communication.

Here you can see some specific English phrases necessary for the telephone communication:

English Puzzles

Could you decipher such puzzles?