I'm looking for an out-of-print Czech book (Televize ve světě by Milan Šmíd, Edice Čs.televize, 1989). Is there an online directory of secondhand...
I've anyone is curious what the Slovenian language sounds like, here's the classic Czech cartoon Rákosníček (my favorite cartoon when I was a...
According to Michael Palin's latest letter to his fans, he should be filming in Slovakia this week and then continuing his journey through the...
Monty Python alumn Michael Palin, well known for his travel documentaries, is currently filming a series on post-communist Europe. He began his...
Brook: Sorry for my incredibly belated response, but I haven't visited this forum in a long time. Since I'm not sure if you're still here (or...
It happened again! This time the pan-European sports network Eurosport aired a map that placed the Slovenian ski resort of Kranjska Gora in the...
If anyone's interested, the British Guardian newspaper published this interesting profile of Ljubljana recently: EXCERPT: "Last year,...
Thanks for your interesting post, Luciaviolin. I'm not a linguist, but it appears that what you hypothesize (i.e. that old dual endings remained...
Thanks, bella italiana. Summer tends to be the best time of the year to visit Slovenia, even though some of the most well-known areas (Bohinj,...
Oh, I just found a map of traditional Slovenian dialects, as requested above. You can immediately see just how lingustically diverse Slovenia is:...
Thanks, bacciap4! A part of it is a sense of pride, but when you are as small as Slovenia, you also just have to keep reminding people that you...
Slovenian is a language of dialects -- it has about 50 different ones. No-other Slavic language has as many per capita. These dialects are very...
If anyone's interested: Czech Radio produced a wonderful report about Slovenia from a Czech perspective last year. You can listen to it here:...
You're right, but what I tried to say -- and didn't quite put it correctly -- is that Slovene has not changed nearly as much from Common Slavic as...
Slovene or Slovenian ("slovenski jezik" or "slovenscina") is the main language of Slovenia. It's a Slavic language with many parallels to Czech...
The New York Times: In Ljubljana, the Old Europe and the New Are Still in Balance EXCERPT: FROM the 16th-century fortress walls atop Castle...
Exactly! However, while that was a problem, say, two hundred years ago (when their use was regional), these names are now archaic. Even the...
I found the Google cache of http://rcum.uni-mb.si/~upa03110b/meseci.htm, so here, for the sake of completness, are some alternate traditional...
Let's add another Slavic language to the list: Traditional Slovenian months (rarely used nowadays, which is a shame): 1. prosinec (according...
Hvala, Tristan! I agreee that Slovenia has to be very careful about how to deal with the rapidly growing numbers of tourists, but I think that if...
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