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Even if you're a widespread customer to Europe or simply an armchair vacationer, the dazzling and remarkable tales in Lingo will without end switch how you take into consideration the continent, and should even make you must research a brand new language.
Lingo spins the reader on a whirlwind travel of sixty ecu languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and alterations. such a lot eu languages are descended from a unmarried ancestor, a language now not in contrast to Sanskrit referred to as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), however the continent's ever-changing borders and cultures have given upward push to a linguistic and cultural variety that's too frequently forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today's distant mountain villages of Switzerland, the place Romansh remains to be the lingua franca, to previously Soviet Belarus, a rustic whose language used to be Russified by way of the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, the place up till the Nineteen Sixties well mannered conversing conventions required that one by no means use the observe "you" in dialog, resulting in tiptoeing questions of the shape: "Would herr generaldirektör Rexed like a biscuit?"
Spanning six millenia and sixty languages in bite-size chapters, Lingo is a hilarious and hugely edifying exploration of the way Europe speaks.
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Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages
No matter if you're a widespread customer to Europe or simply an armchair tourist, the awesome and amazing tales in Lingo will endlessly swap how you take into consideration the continent, and will even make you need to research a brand new language.
Lingo spins the reader on a whirlwind journey of sixty ecu languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and ameliorations. such a lot ecu languages are descended from a unmarried ancestor, a language no longer not like Sanskrit referred to as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), however the continent's ever-changing borders and cultures have given upward push to a linguistic and cultural range that's too usually forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today's distant mountain villages of Switzerland, the place Romansh remains to be the lingua franca, to previously Soviet Belarus, a rustic whose language was once Russified by means of the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, the place up till the Sixties well mannered conversing conventions required that one by no means use the notice "you" in dialog, resulting in tiptoeing questions of the shape: "Would herr generaldirektör Rexed like a biscuit? "
Spanning six millenia and sixty languages in bite-size chapters, Lingo is a hilarious and hugely edifying exploration of the way Europe speaks.
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