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Whether you're a regular visitor to European countries or maybe an armchair traveler, the surprising and outstanding reports in Lingo will permanently change how you think about the continent and could even make you would like to learn a new terms. Lingo spins the listener on the whirlwind tour of 60 Western european languages and dialects, posting quirky moments off their histories and discovering their commonalities and variations. Most European languages are descended from an individual ancestor, a terms not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), however the continent's ever-changing borders and ethnicities have given go up to a linguistic and social diversity that is all too often forgotten in conversations of European countries as a political entity. Lingo will take us into today's distant pile villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca; to previously Soviet Belarus, a country whose terms was Russified by the Bolsheviks; to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the term "you" in discussion, resulting in tiptoeing questions of the form: "Would herr generaldirektör Rexed just like a biscuit?" Spanning six millenia and 60 languages in bite-size chapters, Lingo is a amusing and highly edifying exploration of how European countries speaks.

Category: Linguistics