A review by czarnola
Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages by Gaston Dorren

3.5

I wish Dorren had executed his plan in a less chaotic way, but, overall, the number of linguistic fun facts in this book satisfied me. It included history and geography lessons as well as tips to learn the Cyrillic alphabet and to distinguish European languages from each other. The author also attempted to dispel misconceptions about sign languages or the difficulty of French, however, I imagine that his main goal was to cover as many subjects as possible. As you might guess, it came out a bit disjointed and when some fact drew my attention, I had to look it up on the Internet, because in the book it was all treated very superficially. But still, I think every language enthusiast will find something to their liking here, so I recommend.