Bratislava, for much of its, history was a three-language town. Its citizens spoke Slovak, Hungarian and German. Between 1867 and 1918 Slovakia, Austria and Hungary were parts of the same country, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Changing the frontiers of the three countries and weathering two world wars and 40 years of communism has not succeeded
Many books in Slovakia are not translated to Slovak, they are imported from the Czech Republic. Also Czech TV stations are widely spread here, TV dubbing is left in 99% Czech etc. On the other hand, as the Czech Republic is much bigger market, they usually translate everything, dub everything into Czech and they, after the split of
Lesser spoken languages in Romania include: Serbo-Croatian (26,732: 20,377 Serbians, 6,355 Croatians ), Slovak (16,108), Bulgarian (6,747), Greek (4,146). The use of French developed among Romanian elites from the 18th century. Patrick Leigh Fermor, who visited Romania in 1934, noted that although the elites were all bilingual, their mother Young Slovak people still have the same knowledge (if not better) of the Czech language as their predecessors. Sport. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Falun, Sweden, the ski jumping team competed as a combined Czech Republic-Slovakia team in the team large hill event, winning a silver. The team had been selected prior to the In 2021, for the first time Slovakia overtook the neighbouring Czech Republic in the ranking, which was ranked 23rd this year. Out of the V4 countries, only the Poles speak English better than Slovaks. Even western European countries such as Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain finished behind Slovakia in the ranking. 1zyz. 377 105 47 233 343 59 322 277 493