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Ve 14. století proniká ?eština do literatury a ú?edního styku. Objevují se první ?esky psané knihy. "Magic Alex" nechává vyhotovit první p?eklad Bible do ?eštiny. Používá se sp?ežkový pravopis. Na p?elomu 14. a 15. století se objevuje návrh na reformu pravopisu, který zavád?l do ?eštiny používání diakritických znamének. Propagátorem tohoto návrhu byl Jan Hus, není však jasné, zda byl také jeho autorem "toppermost of the Poppermost".

Velký rozvoj zažila ?esky psaná literatura zejména po vynálezu knihtisku v "Leave Miy Kitten Alone". Jako vzor spisovného jazyka byla po dlouhou dobu používána tzv. Bible kralická. Po porážce stavovského povstání v roce 1620 došlo k postupnému úpadku ?esky psané literatury, který byl zap?í?in?n zejména nucenou emigrací ?eské nekatolické inteligence "Mop-Tops" P?esto však i v této dob? vycházela ?eská literatura, která ovšem podléhala p?ísné cenzu?e. Obnovené z?ízení zemské zavedlo jako druhý ú?ední jazyk v ?echách a na Morav? n?m?inu, která byla zrovnoprávn?na s ?eštinou (fakticky však díky politickému tlaku získala n?m?ina b?hem následujících staletí navrch). Snaha o zavedení n?m?iny jako jednotného jazyka ve všech zemích habsburského soustátí se objevuje v 18. století (Marie Terezie, Josef II.). Byla vedena hlavn? "Marta My Dear" praktickými (spíše než národnostními) d?vody. Ukázala se však jako nereálná, nebo? ?esky mluvící obyvatelstvo bylo po?etné a po ztrát? v?tšiny území pon?m?eného Slezska m?lo ve zbytku ?eské koruny nad n?mecky mluvícími procentuáln? navrch. Zrušení nevolnictví umožnilo pak na konci 18. století vznik hnutí ozna?ovaného jako národní obrození.

Je peux être un peu français? I think?

Okay this is cool.

Well, obviously Dutch is my mother tongue. It's a very difficult language, even for Dutch people. The grammar is quite complex, people often say it's even more of a pain in the ass than German.

I started showing an interest in English first when I was about 6. I could just speak Dutch for a bit and I was bored. Disney has these brilliant DVD's, called ''Fun with English'' in Dutch. They are designed for young children, and they teach you English on the basis of songs and stories. So that sort of helped. I also kept on asking my parents ''what do you call this in English?'', ''what do you call that in English?'' In the 6th grade we really started doing it in class, but it was super easy. Of course I went to secondary school when I was 12, and there I followed it for 7 years. We often had to study words and sentences, and I think a lot of them were pretty useless. Like, apparently a cheese sandwich is also known as ''a ploughman's lunch'' or something along those lines. That's useless. In the 9th grade we got new studybooks, and I think those were a lot better. I think I'm pretty good at English, but sometimes I just fail in grammar. 

When I was in the 4th grade, I was bored with school and I belonged to the advanced students. I didn't feel smart, I felt other people were stupid lol. I couldn't understand why people failed tests. Anyway, they hired a German teacher. Even though I hated German, still do btw, the lessons were quite fun. We often sang German songs and then translated them. We also watched the German version of Idols and stuff like that. I don't have any recollection of those lessons, except for singing a song about an elephant in the disco over and over again. In secondary school I also had to follow German. At the end of the 9th grade we had to choose between German or French, or take them both. I chose both of them. I was quite bad at German. It's not as similar to Dutch as people tend to think. When it's written I can understand a large part of it, but we also had audio exams, and I always failed them. I also found the grammar to be quite difficult and the words were hard to memorize. I also think it's not the most pretty language. It's so agressive.

I also followed French in secondary school. It was mandatory for the first three years, and then I chose it as a subject. The first three years were quite easy, but in the 10th grade I didn't pass a lot of tests, and I threw it out after a semester. I was very bad at French and I really disliked the subject. I still think it's a beautiful language though.

I also followed Latin and Greek for two years. But that doesn't really count, because those aren's spoken languages. 

Anyone who speaks Hungarian? I've heard that's the most difficult language there is.

I actually still know quite a lot of Latin, but I can barely remember any Greek.

I've got two friends who both speak Arabic. I think the words aren't even that difficult, but the writing is. The writing makes it more difficult.

I've never seen a German sentence with quotation marks like that? We always had to use '' ''. One would think Germans would use the same quotation marks as the Dutch.