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Korist od uฤenja klasiฤnih jezika je ogromna. U sluฤaju latinskog, ovladavanje ovim jezikom otvara vrata ka ogromnom knjiลพevnom i nauฤnom nasleฤu stvaranom tokom dva milenijuma, a posredno moลพe biti od velike pomoฤi i pri uฤenju niza savremenih jezika - i to ne samo romanskih: najmanje 60% engleskog vokabulara potiฤe iz latinskog, ลกto direktno, ลกto indirektno. …
Think of literary vampires, and everyoneโs first association is bound to be Bram Stokerโs Dracula hailing from that dark, mystifying land of Transylvania. Enormously influential as it has been, Dracula had a notable antecedent in the form of an even more ground-breaking, yet lesser known, vampiric antagonist - Carmilla - created by the Irish novelist …
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[This post has been written with ESL/EFL students in mind, levels B2/C1. Please scroll down for the accompanying exercises and additional resources.] Each year, April 22 is marked as Earth Day. First introduced in 1970, itโs an international event aimed at raising awareness of environmental concerns. It originated in the eco-activism of the 1960s, a …
Learning a classical language like Latin comes with many benefits. Apart from enabling you access to a vast amount of literary sources spanning two millennia, it can be of great help in learning a host of modern languages. Not just Romance languages, either: according to most estimates, at least 60% of English vocabulary is derived …
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