Why Portuguese Sounds Like Russian to Some
Ever listened to European Portuguese and felt a strange sense of déjà vu, thinking it sounds a bit like Russian? You're not alone, and it's not your imagination playing tricks…
Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Ever listened to European Portuguese and felt a strange sense of déjà vu, thinking it sounds a bit like Russian? You're not alone, and it's not your imagination playing tricks…
In languages like English, you 'have' a book. But in Russian, Irish, or Turkish, you would say "to me there is a book". This fundamental grammatical difference explores the world…
From Mandarin's 'māma' to Swahili's 'mama', the word for 'mother' is strikingly similar everywhere, but it's not a linguistic coincidence. This universal term arises from the "Nursery Word" phenomenon, where…
For 150 years, Russian fishermen and Norwegian merchants in the Arctic communicated in a unique pidgin language: Russenorsk. This fascinating trade language, which blended Russian and Norwegian with a simplified…
Do you see the same "blue" as a Russian speaker, who has two distinct words for the color? The fascinating link between language and color perception reveals that our vocabulary…