By Sarah-Claire Jordan It’s very easy to assume that, in a country one doesn’t know much about, only one or two languages are spoken. This may be the case in some extremely small countries, but Russia is the largest country in the world in terms of land area. There are also 160 different ethnic groups […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Russian has the fame of being one of the most difficult languages to learn for people who don’t already speak a Slavic language. Still, some 260 million people speak Russian worldwide, either as a native language or a second language. Russian is in the East Slavic language group, along with Ukrainian and […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan The Slavic languages are a group of languages that together form the second most common language group in Europe. The most common language group would be the Germanic languages, and the third most common is the Romance language group. You can find Slavic languages spoken throughout Central and Eastern Europe as well […]
The colorful domes of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow brilliantly juxtapose the exquisite gardens and palaces of the Kremlin. Four hundred miles away, in Saint Petersburg, the Hermitage museum displays 18th century architectural pomp, attesting to the cultural splendor contained inside. Travelling from one city to the other is a puddle jump, considering the vast […]
Palm trees inertly witness a lively conversation in foreign tongues on a sidewalk in Sochi, Russia. Big mounds of snow muffle another one in the adjoining ski resort, well above the altitude of the Black sea-side city. The athletes are present at last and the liveliness in the air is a combination of rosy cheeks, […]
Kapka L. was born in Ruse, Bulgaria and she currently lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. After attending University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia, Bulgaria, Kapka graduated from the English Language School in Ruse. Kapka specializes in translation services in tourism, general engineering, development, design, architecture, structural and civil engineering. She has been a […]
Tsiuri P. was born and lives in Tbilisi, Georgia in the USSR. She studied Aviation in school in Tbilisi and has been a translator for 20 years. Tsiuri specializes in the legal, government, military, technical and medical fields and works with European organizations and companies such as Twinning and TACIS. Tsiuri is multilingual; she speaks […]
There are approximately 6,912 living languages in the world today. Most languages belong to larger language groups or families, which is a group of similar or related languages that developed from a common ancestor, referred to as protolanguage (“proto” means “early” in Greek). Let’s take a look at a few major language groups, including an […]
