“The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma”, published in its entirety in 1915, is one of the greatest classics in Brazilian literature. With easy-to-understand writing and a satirical atmosphere, the book tells the story of Policarpo Quaresma, a dreamer and a nationalist who does everything for what he believes to be the best for Brazil, his […]Read More
Nikolai Vasilyevich came to St. Petersburg, still a young man dreaming of transforming the world. When he reached St Petersburg, he collided with the reality of the big city. His plan was to become a lawyer in order to improve the lives of the people there. However, the young man soon understood that this was […]Read More
Arabic, one of the most spoken languages in the world, with over 400 million native speakers around the world, and the official language in 22 countries, is also the most important language for Muslims. It is considered the most important language to Muslims because the Quran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed (which is the prophet […]Read More
There are plenty of news articles from numerous Indonesian websites stating that Bahasa Indonesia (the Indonesian language) is easy to understand. On YouTube, there are also a lot of foreigners staying in Indonesia who say the same thing, that Bahasa Indonesia is easy to understand. Take an example like Jan & Lucas – who run […]Read More
Internationally, Milan Kundera is possibly the most famous Czech writer of all time. His books, which include titles such as The Joke, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting or Laughable Loves, have become Czech classics and global bestsellers. Despite his enormous fame in the Czech Republic, his attitude towards […]Read More
Why did Chichikov want to buy dead souls? Why did Gogol burn the second book? All of these questions have been pondered by philologists for a long time, and the time has come to share these facts with you, as well as see how Czechs see Russian classic literature. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a widely […]Read More
Remember your foreign language class? The teacher boring you with grammar rules and short term memory drills. To pass the class you succumbed to this, not actually learning how to communicate. In the end, you were glad to drop the class to forget everything, thus learning nothing. Frustrating experiences in school lead to sayings like […]Read More
The world is constantly changing. It has always been that way, but this time the rise of social movements and new technological advances have accelerated that process. From time to time new nations are born – some countries achieve positive development while others fall into poverty. Our life expectancy increases, traditional values are replaced by […]Read More
41 years, 249 executed, and more than 282 of those who had wanted to leave had, in doing so, been killed on its borders. 205 000 had been imprisoned, 4 500 tortured to death in jails and almost 2 000 000 people had emigrated. This is a numerical summary of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia […]Read More
If most Eurasian languages and their ancestors can be arranged as a tree, Proto-Indo-European is its root, hidden below view but vital to the splendor of all the proud branches forming an intricate crown above. English is one of these. With 170,000 formally recognised words, it’s tremendous – a formidable branch of this mighty tree. […]Read More
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