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Beer consumption in Europe by country per year per capita (map)
The following map shows interesting geographical trends in beer consumption in Europe. I used several sources, as I wasn’t able to find a (...)
July 21, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Map of the percentage of population able to speak French in the EU by country
French is a Romance language, and as such one would expect the percentage of its speakers to be much higher among native speakers of other (...)
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How big are Greenland and Russia in comparison to Africa?
We are all used to seeing the following kind of maps in Google Maps and other map providers (this one, in particular, is taken from Google (...)
July 7, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Average IQ in Europe by country (map)
When we speak about IQ, it is important to understand that the common idea that IQ measures your “innate” or “genetic” intelligence is a (...)
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Map of the percentage of population able to speak Russian in the EU by country
Russian used to be the first foreign language most inhabitants of the former Eastern Bloc learned. Understandably, the number of Russian (...)
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By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
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Map of the percentage of people speaking German in the EU by country
German used to be a very popular language among educated people from all over Europe before the 20th century, but after World War I, and (...)
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Map of the percentage of people speaking English in the EU by country
Some native English speakers’ attitude towards learning foreign languages could be summarized as “why should I learn a foreign language if (...)
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Map of the most spoken foreign languages in the EU by country
It is interesting to see how likely you are to be able to communicate using a foreign language when you travel in Europe. The following (...)
May 15, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Meaning of accidentals and key signatures in terms of tonal distance
In the previous article, we learned how we can translate note names into numbers using the following table: (...)
March 27, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Music
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How to translate chord progressions into any scale easily
In the previous article, we learned that it is possible to avoid memorization in music theory by using numbers instead of letters for note naming. We used the following table: (...)
March 23, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Music
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