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How many letters does the Latin alphabet really have?
When you start learning a language written using a writing system other than the Latin alphabet (such as the Arabic script or Devanagari), (...)
March 7, 2017 – Jakub Marian – English
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Male to female sex ratio by country in Europe
The human sex ratio is defined as the ratio of the number of males to the number of females in a population; that is, a sex ratio greater (...)
February 25, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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The word “stucked” in English
Sometimes you may hear non-native English speakers and English-speaking children say that “something is stucked somewhere”. However, there (...)
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Special characters (diacritics) used in European languages
The “Basic Latin Alphabet”, as defined by the ISO, consists of the following 26 letters and their uppercase variants (and is identical to (...)
February 21, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Migration patterns and population gains and losses in Europe
I have previously written about immigration and emigration in Europe. Of course, emigration effectively cancels out the effect of (...)
February 9, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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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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Creating a dashed line with two colours in Illustrator
It is possible to create dashed lines in Adobe Illustrator using the “dashed line” option in the Stroke panel (Window → (...)
February 5, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Visual arts
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How to make Adobe Illustrator remember arrowhead settings
If you ever tried to draw a bunch of arrows in Adobe Illustrator, you were probably frustrated by the fact that Illustrator does not (...)
February 1, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Visual arts
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Emigration in Europe: Destination countries and percentages of emigrants
Last year, I published a map showing the current state of immigration in Europe. However, I realized that the data contained in the 2015 (...)
January 31, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Spanish alphabet with pronunciation
Unlike English, Spanish has a very phonetic orthography (most letters have a fixed pronunciation). Spanish alphabet has 27 letters and 5 (...)
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Drawing an island in Photoshop
I have recently discovered a technique for drawing a relatively realistic-looking island in Photoshop, including the water that surrounds (...)
January 16, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Visual arts
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