Slavic languages

Slavic languages or Slavonic languages Which is right to use Slavic or Slavonic languages when referring to such languages as Russian, Polish, Ukrainian etc?  Slavic is American English, which is used in about 70% of situations, while Slavonic is UK English used in about 30% of the world (at the very most some estimates are [...]

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Knowing Polish and understanding a Russian film I am an American that learned Polish, to some level. I was watching the Russian film last night titled “Seventh Cradle”. It is like a Russian ”Indiana Jones”.  There were no subtitles nor lektor. I did not realises this when I started the film. Now the good news is, even [...]

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