Lingotopia

Recently I've been too busy, to actually write something for my blog but I did some language learning nevertheless. Almost three weeks ago, I did a small Serbian writing challenge and after looking a bit into the Serbian grammar and pronunciation, I have to say that it is indeed a very intriguing language. It can be written both with Cyrillic and Roman letters, it has seven cases, it uses different verbs depending on the aspect and it has a pitch accent. I thought that the accent shouldn't be a problem with my knowledge of Chinese. But diacritics for the accents are only used in linguistic literature and the accents have to be learned individually for every word since there aren't many rules regarding the accents. Also, the diacritics are different to the ones used for Chinese. "è" marks a short rising tone in Serbian, but a high falling tone in Chinese. "ȇ" is a long vowel with falling tone in Serbian, while "ě" is a low falling-rising to...