Most foreigners tend to say Slovak is a difficult language to learn. Yet many still want to try – including those currently taking part in the longest running Slovak language summer school. Studia ...

NOVE ZAMKY, Slovakia — In a borderless European Union that boasts 23 official languages, one member, Slovakia, has enacted a law that limits the use of the languages of some fellow EU members. The ...

In a borderless European Union that boasts 23 official languages, one member, Slovakia, has enacted a law that limits the use of the languages of some fellow EU members. The extraordinary step has ...

"Due to Slovakia and Hungary's diverging interests and positions, as well as the internal social and political conditions in the two countries, it appears unlikely that the [language] conflict will be ...

When I moved to Slovakia, my Slovak language skills were next to zero. I had been held back by fear because I heard one popular phrase about this language being impossibly difficult so many times that ...

Hungarian Spectrum writes about the new Slovak language law and reviews Hungarian reactions: “Is this a new effort to fuel nationalism despite, or perhaps because of, membership in the EU?” ...

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Petteri Laihonen (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher (adjunct professor) at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His doctoral dissertation (2009) dealt with ...