I know Lithuanian. I have been learning some Latvian lately. If somebody asked me “Which one is easier: Lithuanian or Latvian?” I would now answer “Latvian”. Latvian is easier to learn for both English-speakers and speakers of other non-Baltic languages. Here’s why.
How To Become a Renaissance Person?
A Renaissance person is somebody with a wide-range of interests, talents, skills and knowledge. Alternative terms are a polymath, a Renaissance man/woman or informally a jack of all trades. Let’s discuss what you should know to become one! Here are the skills and subjects that I believe a Renaissance person should have or be knowledgable… Continue reading How To Become a Renaissance Person?
Why You Can Learn Many Languages in Your Life
I share my thoughts about how I learned many languages and how you can too (well, at least to a certain level).
It Is Far Easier Just To Learn The Basics
In this post I am going to prove to you that it is a better to learn a bit of many different languages than to learn one or a few languages until fluency if you care about understanding what people are speaking about in the world in general.
What lies behind it?
I briefly talk about the interestingness and importance of learning ethymology when learning languages.
A Perfect Accent?
Do you think having a perfect accent is possible in a foreign language? Here’s my take on it!
The Language Difficulty Myth
People always think their native language is the hardest in the world. It’s almost always not true. I discuss this difficult-language myth and how I heard about it on multiple occasions.
Making The World’s Language
I want to talk a bit about making the lingua franca, the international or the bridge language of the world. I don’t want to give you a summary that you can find everywhere else, instead I want to share my idea with you. Having that in mind, you still need some context first. The Lingua… Continue reading Making The World’s Language
Language and Travel
I am not sure about you but one of my main motivations for learning languages is travel. While it’s fine to use the language online or have a pen-friend (I’ve never really had one), what’s the use of knowing a language if you never actually speak it? Speaking a language in its country is pretty awesome,… Continue reading Language and Travel
Five Fascinating Languages of the World
Here are five languages that I have found out about and that have some interesting things about them: