List of author's articles
Slovník is its own reward
Reading the dictionary is also funny.
Mikuláš or the Devil: Were you obedient?
In Slovakia, Mikuláš isn't just a jolly old fellow.
Vivat Slovakia: A language guide to independence
Written over 20 years ago, this article is surprisingly relevant to politics still today.
Slovak Matters: Slovak cooking lingo
Mixing up cesto (dough) and cesta (road/way/journey) may cause confused faces around you.
Slovak Matters: Sick as a dog, or under the dog?
The social aspect of being sick has changed since the pandemic, but the language is the same.
Slovak Matters: Hold your mushroom
Mushroom picking is Slovakia's favourite hobby, involving bugs, rain, cold, and poisonous fungi.
Slovak Matters: in praise of burčiak
The activity taking place in a bottle of burčiak can cause internal September storms.
Slovak Matters: learning with less trstenica and more internet
What a teacher will find in a Slovak classroom.
Slovak Matters: A 613 or bugatka car?
A litany of car expressions for you.
Slovak Matters: Slovak rich in words for ugly
Many Slovak words for ugly have supernatural overtones, as if people might make the sign of the cross at you if you left the house without brushing your hair.
Súpers are super: Winning and losing in Slovak
The Slovak language in the context of hockey.
Slovak Matters: If it looks like Slovak and sounds like Slovak, it still may be Czech
While Slovaks seem to naturally understand Czech, for foreigners who have learned Slovak, Czech is often unintelligible.
Ways to skin a Slovak: Lies, damn lies and (re)klamy
Though this article was originally written 21 years ago, has much changed?
Fraud in a butterfly
By dint of huge effort, I managed to make up for my bad behaviour - with everyone but the ball organiser, that is.
Slovak Matters: What's in a (sur)name?
Slovak Matters: What's in a (sur)name?
Slovak Matters: One word, a hundred meanings
A discussion on prefixes takes a journey from mistakes through to toilets and alcohol - because they are related of course.
Slovak Matters: Top 10 Slovak words
Every language has its own particular words that have a special meaning no other language has - here are the top 10 in Slovak.
Slovak Matters: Departures, even when drinking
The last column was dedicated to saying hello; now we go over the last word, whether saying goodbye or taking the customary last shot.
Slovak Matters: Dobrý deň and all it entails
Slovak Matters is a column dedicated to learning Slovak - here we start with greetings and everything you need to know to say "good day".
The virtue of knowing too little
As it turns out, liberal democracy is not the highest form of political evolution, in Slovakia as elsewhere, writes Tom Nicholson.
- France and Slovakia: Believing, loving, and working together
- Slovak roots: helping put Slovakia out there
- News digest: Bear suspected of killing man in central Slovakia
- Foot-and-mouth outbreak hits major Slovak cattle farm near Austrian and Czech borders Photo
- Last Week: As disease spreads, Fico no longer insists on a “different opinion”
- From Mexico to Slovakia – finding a new life Audio
- Trading McDonald’s for the front lines
- Q&A: How to stay safe around bears
- Foot-and-mouth outbreak hits major Slovak cattle farm near Austrian and Czech borders Photo
- France and Slovakia: Believing, loving, and working together
- Last Week: As disease spreads, Fico no longer insists on a “different opinion”
- Trading McDonald’s for the front lines
- The Slovak-American who wants the world to witness the quality of Slovak wines
- Slovak roots: helping put Slovakia out there
- News digest: Emergency, crying cows, secret burials and Brussels plots
- In Bratislava, spring begins with 90 wines and a stroll through hidden cellars Photo
- Slovak dad drops everything for son’s NHL debut — even a flight
- Foot-and-mouth outbreak hits major Slovak cattle farm near Austrian and Czech borders Photo
- The Slovak-American who wants the world to witness the quality of Slovak wines
- France and Slovakia: Believing, loving, and working together
- Last Week: As disease spreads, Fico no longer insists on a “different opinion”
- Dialects: can west understand east?
- News digest: Emergency, crying cows, secret burials and Brussels plots
- Then … Now
- Slovak dad drops everything for son’s NHL debut — even a flight
- Foot-and-mouth outbreak hits major Slovak cattle farm near Austrian and Czech borders Photo
- The Slovak-American who wants the world to witness the quality of Slovak wines
- France and Slovakia: Believing, loving, and working together
- Then … Now
- Dialects: can west understand east?
- This protest was for Gaza—then it turned into a showdown with a Marxist MEP and a far-right influencer
- Last Week: As disease spreads, Fico no longer insists on a “different opinion”
- News digest: Bear suspected of killing man in central Slovakia
- Trading McDonald’s for the front lines
- From Mexico to Slovakia – finding a new life Audio
- Bratislava satellite town breaks records and keeps expanding
- Last Week: As disease spreads, Fico no longer insists on a “different opinion”
- In Bratislava, spring begins with 90 wines and a stroll through hidden cellars Photo
- Zvolen find their moment, Košice leave no doubt Video
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