Chief or Chef in Polish and Russian
In Polish like in Russian, ‘Chef’ means ‘boss’. Many times Russian and Polish people will refer to their boss as their chief. Further it will be hard for them to distinguish the sound of ‘chef’ -someone who works as a cook and ‘chief’ - someone who is […]
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Most economically valuable languages to learn
Conventional wisdom says if you are are looking for the most economically valuable language to learn, learn Spanish. Why? Spanish is gaining momentum and the line between the English and Spanish world in the Americas is blurred.
However, the most economically valuable languages to learn is not Spanish at least from an […]
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Mnemonics
July 11, 1975 Stanford university did a study on teaching Russian vocabulary with memory mnemonics. The mnemonics study was called “Teaching a Large Russian Language Vocabulary by the Mnemonic Keyword Method”. The result was those who used memory mnemonics to learn Russian, learned Russian vocabulary faster and performed better on tests than people who do […]
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No Russian needed to speak to Russian girls
I went on vacation to Egypt with my wife. I met a British guy around 27, athletic normal looking, who was there with his dad. He was there for 2 weeks with his dad to look at the fish in the water. Pretty nice chap. Looking at fish […]
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Knowing Polish and understanding a Russian film
I am an American that learned Polish, to some level. I was watching the Russian film last night titled “Seventh Cradle”. It is like a Russian ”Indiana Jones”. There were no subtitles nor lektor. I did not realises this when I started the film. Now the good news is, even though […]
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Phonetic Slavic languages
Phonetic comes from ancient Greek meaning ’sound - voice’. The Slavic languages are phonetic. This is one great advantage when trying to learn. Despite the strange streams of consonants or the Cyrillic alphabet, once you learn the 50 or so sound combinations and letters you can read as you would speak. Spelling is […]
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Why earn more degrees, just learn a language for more earnings power and a richer life
In the States its very trendy to accumulate more degrees and initials behind your name. It is education inflation. Our fathers need a colleage degree now we need a masters and really some extra designations beyond that. Although it looks […]
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The word dobry in Russian, Polish and Ukrainian languages
Dobry is the universal Slavic word meaning “good”. You could be in Ukraine, Poland, Russia or anywhere in Eastern Europe, and if you only knew this word, you could be OK in many situations.The Russian, Ukrainian or Polish word dobry can mean “good, fine, OK, sure, lets do it, […]
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Preposition ‘on’ in the Slavic languages - Russian, Ukrainian, Polish.
When native Slavic language speakers, such as speakers of Russian, Ukrainian or Polish speak English they often have trouble with prepositions. In Russian, Ukrainian and Polish the preposition ‘on’ is represented by the word ‘na’. Na means on, but it has a much wider meaning in […]
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Bilingual education in America
The USA has given more funding and starting new programs in bilingual education in the public schools. The objective is to make the USA more competitive in the global market. These programs are just not traditional languages classes in a foreign language, but these are true bilingual education programs in public schools. […]
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