by Conor Clyne | Jan 17, 2019 | English, Travel
Belarus has been the least visited country in Europe for most of its independence gained in 1991. This was partly due to its strict visa rules for visitors from Western Europe and North America. Towards the end of 2016, Belarus started to liberialize its visa policy...
by Conor Clyne | Jun 7, 2018 | English, Multilingualism
What is Esperanto? Above is my video from Białystok, Poland and Grodno, Belarus outlining the reasons who which I have no plans to learn Esperanto in spite of having already gone through the process of learning more than 10 other languages. So what is Esperanto?...
by Conor Clyne | Mar 22, 2018 | English, Travel
So many of my readers (and viewers on YouTube) have been sending me direct messages on my Instagram asking me how hard it is to travel in Eastern Europe. This really depends on which of the four, you are planning to visit. Their respective visa free regimes are quite...
by Conor Clyne | Jan 12, 2017 | English, Multilingualism, Travel
Traveling around ‘Eastern Europe’ is one of my passions as is learning languages. When I travel across this region I normally use Russian as it’s the most useful lingua franca for communication. Now that may surprise many readers, especially those...
by Conor Clyne | Apr 2, 2015 | English, Regional Linguistic Differences
Russian is today an official language of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as, in certain regions that are de jure part of Georgia (Abkhazia & South Ossetia), Moldova (Transnistria & Gagauzia), Ukraine (almost 10 oblasts),...
