“Slovak is a language like any other and anyone can learn it. Of course, there are difficult bits -- tell me which language does not have such difficulties? -- but there are also many simple parts. ” ...

Many of them have experiences from abroad. This year the summer school offers 14 courses, including practical courses of Slovak language for beginners (A1, A2), intermediate (B1, B2) and advanced ...

The Slovak parliament passed a new language law Wednesday despite fierce opposition from leaders of the country’s 600,000-strong Hungarian minority and a warning from Hungarian Prime Minister ...

Thousands of ethnic Hungarians have demonstrated in Slovakia, to protest against a new law that limits the use of minority languages there. The law sets out to encourage the use of Slovak in official ...

Slovakia will not abolish the recently passed amendment to the language law, Prime Minister Robert Fico said in a statement in which he rejected Monday's appeal by the Hungarian parliament to do ...

The law originally stated that Slovak was the mandatory language of official contacts throughout the country. However, "in 1999, the Mikulas Dzurinda cabinet, ...