HaxehJoin Date: 2012-07-02
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First basics of Czech Language will be posted one by one. This is something like "First Guide and How to Pronounce". Good luck.
Alright, we'll start with the wery basics.
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Hello - You can say "Ahoj" - Pronounced like "Ahoy".
There are lot of similiar words to word "Ahoj".
Something like:
Čau - Pronounced as "Tschau".
or
Nazdar - Pronounced as "Nazdar".
Then we got sentences like: How are you?, and it's answer: Good/Fine/Okay.
How are you? - You can say "Jak se máš?" - Pronounced "Yak se maash?"
Answers: Fine/Good.
Fine - You can say "Fajn." - Pronounced "Fine."
Good - You can say "Dobře." - Pronounced "Dobre."
Czech have letter "ř" really special from others, you can google it how to pronounce it.
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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Ahoj!
Neat, Czech has short words that are easy to remember. |
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HaxehJoin Date: 2012-07-02
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Don't worry, we have lot of really long words. But they're not that common. |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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I know some Polish. In Polish, "how are you" is "jak sie masz?" haha, I'll remember that real good. I know two east slavic languages fluently, I think I'll do well in Czech. But it's a little different since it's west slavic. Polish and Slovak must be the most similar to Czech. |
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HaxehJoin Date: 2012-07-02
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Indeed. Czech is really similiar to Polish. I never learned Polish and I can speak/read and write. Actually, Slovak is almost the same as Czech, more similiar than Polish. Before 2nd World War which was around 1920 Slovakia and Czech were together, we were Czechoslovakia. Now it's just Czech Republic and Slovakia. |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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I know that it was once Czechoslovakia. I thought it split more recently, like in the 80's or 90's. |
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HaxehJoin Date: 2012-07-02
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Oh yeah, history is not my favorite subject. |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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It's my least favourite subject but I knew that. |
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HaxehJoin Date: 2012-07-02
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It was in the fresh 1993. |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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So it split about the same time the Soviet Union split. But Czechoslovakia was not in the Soviet Union. Is this just a coincidence? |
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HaxehJoin Date: 2012-07-02
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Yeah. We confirmed the Czechoslovakia- Soviet Contract. |
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Ahoy is a big theatre in Holland ^3^ |
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XxJimmyxXJoin Date: 2009-02-15
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My mom's side of the family has Czechoslovakian in them (I do too) and they tried to teach me the language. It sounds really confusing, but I did manage to remember "shut your mouth." I don't know how to spell it, though. |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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What language, Jimmy? Czech, or Slovak? |
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XxJimmyxXJoin Date: 2009-02-15
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Whatever Czechoslovakian is. |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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Czechoslovakian is not a language. There's two languages spoken there, that would be Czech and Slovak. |
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XxJimmyxXJoin Date: 2009-02-15
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Oh, well this is awkward. Uhmmm, I guess it's Slovak. |
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XxJimmyxXJoin Date: 2009-02-15
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Wait, it might be Czech because I remember my grandma teaching me "jak se máš" a year or two ago. |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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In my opinion, jak se máš is easy to remember. It's short and easy to say. |
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XxJimmyxXJoin Date: 2009-02-15
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That's why I remember it. |
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HaxehJoin Date: 2012-07-02
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"Shut your mouth." is in Czech "Drž hubu." which is pronounced "Drsh hubu." |
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XxJimmyxXJoin Date: 2009-02-15
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That's not what my grandma taught me, so maybe it is Slovakian. Are the languages similar? |
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HaxehJoin Date: 2012-07-02
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I really don't know how to say it in Slovakian.. It might be the same, but we got like 10more similiar sentences like "Buď ticho" etc. |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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Does the z with that accent above it sound like ж, or a French j?
You know...
Pronounce it like an s in vision or Asia? |
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HaxehJoin Date: 2012-07-02
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That Russian one " ж ". |
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