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Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages by Gaston Dorren (Paperback, 2016)
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- Whether you're a frequent visitor to Europe or just an armchair traveler, the surprising and extraordinary stories in Lingo will forever change the way you think about the continent, and may even make you want to learn a new language. Lingo spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences. Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent's ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word you in conversation, leading to tiptoeing questions of the form: Would herr generaldirektoer Rexed like a biscuit? Spanning six millenia and sixty languages in bite-size chapters, Lingo is a hilarious and highly edifying exploration of how Europe speaks.
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- PublisherBlack Cat
- ISBN-139780802125712
- eBay Product ID (ePID)229195801
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- Book TitleLingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages
- AuthorGaston Dorren
- FormatPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- TopicHolidays
- Publication Year2016
- Number of Pages304 Pages
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- Title_AuthorGaston Dorren
- Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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