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.
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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).
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
The Teaching Company
I was doing a course on linguistics by the Teaching Company and I realized how much these courses have really given me and continue to give me so I decided to make a blogpost about it.
What Languages Should You Know if You Want to Travel the World Freely
The idea is that you be able to communicate with as many people in as many different places as possible knowing as few languages as possible. What languages should you learn then?
The raison d’être of multilingualism: why learn languages?
This post attempts to get at the why rather than the how of language learning. Let’s discuss.