Beautiful Ukrainian Prime Minister
Who is the most beautiful world leader? By far without a question the Ukrainian Prime minister. She is not only beautiful, but intelligent, moral and but tough. She lead the orange revolution, was jailed for political reason, has unfairly had political mud slung at her, stood up to […]
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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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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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15% more earnings for bilingual skills
I have been looking around at how much people get paid for being bilingual. If you are talking apples and apples, bilingualism will reward you with about a 15% increase per year in your pay. However, this is for basic job. The reward for a professionals, will be a higher, […]
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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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