Unique St Martin Croissants and the Croissant Museum in Poznań
By Julia Kitaszewska & Marta Gburzyńska, KONTAKT, Poland
Linguistic influences around Calabrian Dialects
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team In ancient times, the territories of Calabria were known as Ausonia, the ancient Greek name for lower Italy,…
Proverbs: pearls of folk wisdom
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team Almost every culture has its unique proverbs. Those short, metaphorical expressions, part of every spoken language, reflect the…
«A language is a dialect with an army and navy»
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team «A language is a dialect with an army and navy» is a famous humorous affirmation about defining languages.…
History of our language: Galician
Galician, a language with centuries of history, which identifies all of us and links us with the Portuguese or even with the Brazilians. A…
Language traditions in Hampshire
English in southern England (also, rarely, Southern English, or in the UK, simply, Southern English) is the collective set of different dialects and accents of the English spoken in Southern England. The…
The Jewish Community in Poznań
By Aleksandra Majchrowska, KONTAKT, Poland. The Jewish Community in Poznań was one of the most important in the country. Along with Krakow, Lublin, and…
Bambers: The German Farmers Who Brought New Life to Poznań
By Aleksandra Majchrowska, KONTAKT, Poland. One of the most interesting local stories in Poznań is the story of Bambers. We have to go back…
Linguistic heritage – Occitans: the smallest minority in Calabria
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team Collective memory is related to history and has an identity function.The construction of a collective memory is instrumental…
Language within a language – Poznań Vernacular and Great Polish dialect.
By Aleksandra Majchrowska, KONTAKT, Poland. One of the extremely interesting features that distinguishes the Greater Poland region from the rest of the country is a…