27th September 2003, 2:36 PM
Its Slovakia, not the 'Slovak Republic'...
And all of those nations have more differences than you realize... yes, even Austria and Germany, though they aren't huge in that case. I would say that there are good sized differences between The Netherlands and Belgium or Czech Republic and Slovakia (if they were so similar then why, exactly, did they split up from Czechoslovakia? :) )...
Oh yeah, and Europe is FAR more bilingual than either the US or Canada, by many orders of magnitude...
And all of those nations have more differences than you realize... yes, even Austria and Germany, though they aren't huge in that case. I would say that there are good sized differences between The Netherlands and Belgium or Czech Republic and Slovakia (if they were so similar then why, exactly, did they split up from Czechoslovakia? :) )...
Oh yeah, and Europe is FAR more bilingual than either the US or Canada, by many orders of magnitude...