The Travel Linguist - Czech 101

[MultiDstar]

Czech language sounds like Polish baby talk :)

Czech is more similar to Polish than some polish dialects hehe. For example Silesian dialect in Poland sounds germanic.

[Mariposamecanica]

impossibruuuuu!!! Zungenbrecher

[gothicgrowler]

Damn ř... >:(

[mcrfan1324]

It is so much fun to watch these videos when Czech language is something like a mother language :D čau češi! :D

[BlackMilkCunt]

If You want You can translate:Má to smysl se učit česky?Vždyť to skoro nikdo ve světě nepoužívá.Jenom češi a těch je pouze circa 10 milionů.A hlavně cizinci neumí říct Ř.

[mcrfan1324]

@BlackMilkCunt Celkom to vystihuje podstatu :D ale ak chcú

[AttackBattalion212]

Kde je toaleta i got to take a shit lol

[gpktm]

Sheep ahoooooy!!! hehe

[AmJam11]

@prelouc ya I'm Czech 2 i  teh Czech

[Tristsvo]

@AmJam11 Yay! I am too!

[Sandmanificification]

czech for goodbye is how are you?

[DJvalares]

fuck, very similar to polish

[tooclassyforme]

The guy is REALLY HOT.

[CZPredator]

Mlooveete angleetskee? Tak to mě rozsekalo :D :D :D

[bichonfrise44]

@CZPredator Jn, Yakse mahte taky dobrý :D

[mmaninjitsu]

Hrdý na to Českou!

[HergotH01]

Word of advice - czech equivalent of "hello" is maybe "ahoj", but its use is different from english and american hello.

"Ahoj" is much less formal and should not be used when dealing with complete strangers, the formal form "Dobrý den" (~ good day) should be used instead.

Exception in it is when you are young (say <25) and speaking with someone young too, or in a collective of people that knows themselves and one of them is your friend.

[Davidsbeenhere]

I can't wait I want to come back again soon.

Very nice and beautiful place.

Check out my channel and watch my videos.

Thank you guys :-)

[Nerolinka1]

Ja bych se jako cizinec nechtěla česky učit

[trouble147girl147]

@Nerolinka1 Mam to stejne :D

[Akralaa]

wow you can say the word so many diffrent ways in czech

[RoderichEdelstein727]

The word for goodbye is "how are you"?????? !

[nosesmileys]

Visit learnczech.webs.com

[zbyneksin]

na tahle a podobná videa se asi dívají hlavně češi..=)

[MrSilverFish1]

jak se máte? Yakse mahte :-D ? lol I am czech and this is emo language in our country :D

[jonasbrothersxz]

im half cezch :D



[davidrohusch]

it is bad words!!!!!i am czech!!!!!!!

[mmaninjitsu]

@davidrohusch did it ever occur to you that you are awesome and just got a subber

[davidrohusch]

i am czech :D and it is nice :D

[MyAnarch]

If you will say "n" along with "ahoj" it meens "cock" in Russian :DDDD

[Iamme629]

This video's good because I don't necessarily want to be fluent in Czech, I just want to learn the basics.

[yaycookies14]

This language seems soo simple for me! I speak russian which most likly made it easy for me. but i was surprised at it. I should study this language next ! I Just need someone whos from the Czech republic!!!

[flutey28]

Proud to be of Czech heritage =) now I need to learn how to pronounce "kolache" - we've made it for years in my family, such a great dessert =)

[davidrohusch]

@flutey28 it isnt kolache it is Koláče(Cake)

[mmaninjitsu]

@flutey28 good man, I subbed

[DeathShamans]

watch?v=mEC-yrIfpME

[XbioshockdeltaX]

The word for goodbye is the phrase for .... problem?? :D

[TheNulam]

Yakse mahte xDxDxD i lold so much xD that looks so funny

[markuslebt]

the guy has a broken nose. if you dont quit the video he will break yours too

[JakobRobert00]

0:58 i think there is something missiing

[Captaindogshit]

The guy in this video has no fucking soul

[TheDudeYouHateToMeet]

@Captaindogshit then he must be Slovak

[vatzjr]

The look on his face is like the basest disdain one could have for another. WTF?

[flyvid]

I've heard a lot of people from slavic countries say, that they understand certain phrases in Czech without learning, but it doesn't seem to work the other way around - I'm czech, but I don't understand Polish or Russian at all.

[Antarktida1337]

Lolololololololo each translation reminds me: "Yankees" :D

[polishchic92]

this is sooo similar to polish! :D

[radikborov]

@polishchic92 You're right. They both belong to west-slavic group and shared similar history and development.

But you definitely know it.

[JazzyTwinkle]

You missed out the word for goodbye...

[Cracken1979]

@JazzyTwinkle "Nashledanou." or the clipped and more colloquial version "Nashle."

[smellslikechildren1]

@JazzyTwinkle Ciao. 

[kimirock72]

yak seh yimenooyeteh :-D  jak se jmenujete :-D nechtěl bych se učit česky :-D

[Quietus4]

Czech is suppossedly easier for foreigners than for example my language - Slovak

[myawesomeboy]

Saying Hello in Czech is like a pirate.

[Mirinovic]

@myawesomeboy  But it use in informal occasion.

[Jukoe08]

@myawesomeboy Did I choose the travel linguist for pirates?

[DSeifertik]

lol i am czech,and for my is this language really easy xD

[DSeifertik]

lol i am czech,and for my is this language really easy xD

[MrZetruth]

im not slavic but i love their culture and history and on top of that they have the most beautiful women on the palent!!! czech, ukraine, and russian omg the best!!

[barikamalika]

in my class are people from whole world , one boy is from Slovakia and one girl from Russia and I am from Poland, the most beautiful it's that we understand each other :) greeting from Nederland!

[Fonzi79]

Czec is so much easier to pronounced then russian..

[locoawise]

ahoj sounds like the portuguese for rice(arroz)

[kccosuperfans]

One questioan, what is the phrase for 'Goodbye'? Thanks. =)

Btw, the guy makes me keep laughing! Why is he sooo serious? XD

[Koudynka]

@kccosuperfans Goodbye is 'naschledanou' in Czech

can't say how to pronounce it, English is weird in this XD

[PWITSD]

@Koudynka NOT ,,naschledanou", but ,,NASHLEDANOU" :-)

[Koudynka]

@PWITSD a little difference for me... :P

I usually write it as I seem to fit... when speaking, I say "naschledanou", and when writing, I use both.

[PWITSD]

@Koudynka jasne, ale co kdyby to videl nejakej amík... :-)

[Koudynka]

@PWITSD stejně mu z toho pude hlava kolem.. oni neumí tohleto přečíst ani s chybou, ani bez :X

[anikamar]

@Codylangaugesblog like czech people!!!

[Skarlos131]

@LadyRissa211 Thats how horrible czech language is. They wan't to kill themeselves because its so hard to learn XD . And I am Czech btw, before you start accusing me of something.

[Metalsraver]

Tak Naš jazyk je docela dost těžký... xD Nechtěla bych se ho znovu učit. No nic zatím, ČEST !

+ for us...I understand Slovak,Polish and Russian without learning. (And it is worth)xD

[forkinator]

I can speak czech.

[Krazed2Kraze]

Is toaleta a czech word? I grew up in Australia but learnt czech fluently from my parents and their friends, and I never heard that word, I always heard/said zahot (not sure on spelling).

Toaleta sounds very similar to the English version...

[Iwushka1994]

@Krazed2Kraze Toaleta is Czech word.

And "záchod" means WC.

[Koudynka]

@Iwushka1994 toaleta is a word taken from other languages and changed a bit to fit as a new word

[davidrohusch]

@Iwushka1994 yes and it is Toaleta or Záchod it is good:)

[JUSTINECAIRO]

chips ahoy! hehehehe...Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible

[vidyistgeil]

what happened to GOODBYE? it skipps it.,

[earlaweese]

@vidyistgeil The word for hello - "ahoj" is also used with goodbye. :)

[iammichaelscott]

hmm czech pilsner...

[CZPredator]

@iammichaelscott Hahaha yea Czech beer is best in the world :D

[StefanKaleta]

The words aren´t much difficult, cause there are some words not so much different from english. It helps me a lot, because I am czech and I´m learning english for five years :)

[NorkeyCZE]

germanic, i meant

[notblondeswede]

I'm sorry but slavic laguages are ugly

[kccosuperfans]

@notblondeswede there are no ugly languages in this world, you are the one with ugly heart.

[Untitledwiz]

it means your mom is a whore

[TheDudeYouHateToMeet]

czech repuke

[Macon1990]

I'm goin to prague next sunday. This helped me a lot. Thnx =D

[nezapamatovatelne]

Let study the main word in czech language: "pivo" = "beer". Pronounced: piv (as in "pivot") + o (as in "not"). :)))

But in fact you don't need to study at all, everyone in prague speaks english.

[Patricek2]

@lidltomat your mum is a whore

[ycja8]

fun language, I can all understand not learning this language earlier

[qwertypluss]

i am croatian, czech and russian are stupid ugly languages, croatian is beautiful learn this. or serbian / bosnian

[qwertypluss]

sounds like borat

[immortalx50]

Difficult language? Hell no! I'm russian, and for me Czech is really easy to learn, I can understand some words and even phrases without learning

[DextraKiedis]

@immortalx50 Same for me with russian (I´m Czech).;)

[Skarlos131]

@immortalx50 Thats because you are Russian. Polish, Russian, Czech and Slovak are really similiar. I am czech and I can understand Polish pretty well, and I never learned it.

[ArkadiuszEurope]

@immortalx50

I am Pole, and I think the same.

[anikamar]

@immortalx50 lucky u I am from chile I speak spanish it's very hard for me!!!!

[Koudynka]

@immortalx50 that's 'cause the Czech and Russian language came from the same old base(or how would I say it...)

I'm Czech and I know a word or two Russian too, a lot words sound similar, that's true

[Skarlos131]

@immortalx50 Because you're Russian. I am Czech and I can understand slovak and polish almost completely and even some Russian as well :)

[radikborov]

@immortalx50 Why do you think it's easy for you? You're Slav, too. Russian is also simple for Czechs. You must know azbuka, but it's easy.

[Adrenogoredreams]

@immortalx50 And Im argentinian and portuguese is really easy to learn

[TheManNamedDragon]

@immortalx50 Exactly. It's the same for me. :)

[theycallmefibb]

@immortalx50 Duh. Russian and Czech are both Slavic languages.

[MotiCompleto008]

@immortalx50

yeah, but for people who don't speak russian, or any other language similar to czech (sorry if i'm offending any russians or czechs here) it's pretty hard

it's like you had to learn spanish

[NewYorkTrojan]

@MotiCompleto008 Hmmm Spanish is not that really hard to learn. Well, I must say that the Spanish grammar is really confusing having up to 18 tenses but in terms of pronunciation and words and others the language is really not that hard to learn.

[Vojak3]

@immortalx50 Because you already know a slavic language! If you would know a romanic or germanic language instead it would be very difficult.

[7AlexFord]

@immortalx50 duhhhh cuz russian is a slavic language as well! I speak spanish and I learned portuguese in 5 months, italian in 1 year and french in 2.

[14slechtic14]

@immortalx50 Yes, its because Russian and Czech are both slavic languages and they are quite similar to each other. I'm Czech and I can understand lot of Russian phrases as well. But try so say Ř, Č, Ž, or Ť if only language you know is English or any other language without this strange slavic sounds.... Almost impossible :D But anyway, good luck with studing this strange but lovely language !

[MyAnarch]

@14slechtic14  Russian has only 20 % Slavic's vocabulary. Russian is a Finnish-Bulgarian dialect

[CRACOVIA1515]

@immortalx50 Yes well it is obvious that if you already know a Slavic language it makes it much easier to learn and understand another. But for someone who doesn't speak a Slavic language, it makes learning Czech extremely difficult.

[787310]

@immortalx50 cuz you already know a slavic language so its not much of a feat to understand another

[Cracken1979]

@immortalx50 That is because you are Slav, mate. I can also catch a few words in Russian. Our languages are to some extent similar. I think being able to speak and write Czech could be compared to being fluent in Latin. Declension in my mother tongue must really be tough for foreigners to grasp - we have seven (!) cases, we have special words where we write "y" while "i" is considered to be a mistake, another case is gender (there is no inner logic in it) and of course, our "ř"...

[porizkovabasta]

@immortalx50 of course when we are slavs :-)

[cmarek1989]

@immortalx50 maybe becouse our languages have same roots and are quite similar? ^^

[Ralex004]

@immortalx50 thank the slavic similarities

[JacquesVontoui]

@Ralex004 Its like this, If you speak Russian you'll pick up languages like Bulgarian, Czech, Romanian, and Bosnian etc. without any problems because its basically same. French, Italian and Spanish, and Portuguese all have ties, and finally if you speak English, Dutch and German is easy to pick up, based on you type of language is the difficulty level. (A Chinese person will have a easier time learning Vietnamese than a native Russian Speaker.

[Ralex004]

@JacquesVontoui Yeah, I know, man xp Languages are my hobby, if i didn't know this I'd probably kill myself x)

[donxniko]

and for godbye?

[dikitanci]

the same... Ahoj, or čau

[StefanKaleta]

Or nashledanou

[Mik3Anix]

No it isnt, you are just dumb

[kayenta33]

haha

i meant difficult for the average person, but clearly i am not the average person.

[Mik3Anix]

lol true

[JanisCzech]

lol :D hustý .... Yak seh yimenooyeteh xD

[tounina]

YAK SEH YIMENOOYETEH ? :-DDDDDD

tak to je moc :))))

Měli by takhle zkusit přepsat "strč prst skrz krk" :)

[ipswichgirl05]

lol! he does

[Andzel0]

Well in this case Goodbye means -Nashledanou- or just -ahoj- :). -Sbohem- means if you never want to se him/her again or if you just don´t suppose that..

[xirvin92]

0:56 - 1:00 wtf?

[Nawheena]

my mom and grandparents try to teach me Czech, but the hardest thing i find is always where to place your tounge! Its one of the harder languages to learn if you're not taught when you are little (or so my mother says)

[monaboydfan]

Dyekooyi xD

I´m Czech and I find this hilarious xD But I guess that czech pronuncination is quite difficult to learn when you´re not czech..

[PolskaLegia001]

I am polish and Czech is easy to pronounce. What amazes me though is that Polish is harder to learn than Japanese.

[monaboydfan]

Well my sis is learning Japanese but I´ve never really heard polish so I don´t know how hard it is.But as far as I know some word in Czech and Polish are similiar

[LOLnonameomfg]

I am learning Polish, my boyfriend is Polish, and yes a lot of the words and sounds are apparently the same according to this video...

=)

[TerkaFerka]

I´m Czech. yes, czech is easy to pronounce, but only for slavonians, not for other.

serwus! :-)

[TomSouthLondon]

polish harder than japanese dont think so....

[djmartyn]

I live 5 km from poland border (Bohumín-Chalupki) and all peoples here can 100% Česky a Polsky Ostravsky a Po Naszimu :D:D:D:D

[SmartZX]

I love slavic languages!

[DetrezedeBR]

wheres the word for goodbye?

[mozartinaa]

The word for goodbye is "nashledanou" :)

[kvetmada]

goodbye - Nashledanou!

Sbohem! means go with good, we don´t usually say sbohem but we say nashledanou

[lidltomat]

just say ahoj

[GerardVanDerAardweg]

those people have no enthusiasm. Learning languages should be funny, not melancholic!

[MrSilverFish1]

Ahojte, já jsem z česka, pokud někdo s čímkoliv chcete poradit, klidně se zeptejte ;) Umím i anglicky atd....

[uhlord]

lol its like impossible to prenounce letters such as ' ř ' or ' ž ' to people who speaks English, German considering the fack that there practically no English word or phrase that sounds even as nearly as mentioned above ' ř ' or ' ž ', I feel sorry for you because Czech's difficult to learn :-)

[gamrkidd]

something is wrong with all these travellinguist language lesson videos. all the people look DEAD. not just this Czech video but a lot of their other videos.. like russian and spanish.

[CZxHONZAxCZ]

I am happy to already know this language... seems pretty confusing to learn for everyone :P

[PadawanDJ]

I'm having trouble with the one I'll probably use the most - Dekuji (thank you). I pronounce it 'deh-kwi'. Is that right? Dekuji!

[TwistedMayhem]

there's no word for goodbye or what?

[adorablealexwallin]

it's the same as hello- Ahoj

[Likeafoxow]

lol jack's a mate!

[Mautinka29]

Imagine it as a very impolite thing which sometimes someones do even among people. I try to explain you in the best way and mainly in simple way.Then it is ,,naschledanou" whereas you need to use the czech alphabet!!!!!!! At the end of this word you move your mouth as a cow when she chews:) That is all from me but of course it is better to see it and hear it. bye

[Mautinka29]

As I can see they missed the czech word of ,,goodbye". It is ,,nashledanou". And it means that you don´t say goodbye forever but just until you see each other again. Even though there is the letter ,,h" you pronounce it as ,,ch". But I mean the czech pronunciation. Not english because you say ,,k" or ,,č"(this is the czech letter). ,,Ch" is pronounced as you want to put something from your neck away and then you want to spit it up.

[Tokiohotelness]

can someone please tell me how to say goodbye? the actual word then the pronunciation. thank u =)

[castleblanca]

Na shledanou, which literally means "until seeing you". It is pronounced "na skladano".

The short form is also used (between friends, for instance): Na shled (na sklad).

Or you may also say "Ahoj" (pronounced "ahoy"). "Ahoj" is both hello and "bye".

However, to be proper, say "na skladano".

[Tokiohotelness]

Dekuji!!!!

[negathief]

wtf where is goodbye

[innocentbutcher41]

slava bratr dohromody!!

[somachr]

Yakse mathe!!!!!!!!!!! To me fakt rozsekalo. I mean it really get me.

[gianni785]

Cesky je sooooooooo difficult!

I've lived in prague for i while an I often come back there...i love czech republich but not czech languege! i fell so stupid when i'm with my czech friends and everyone laught but me :S I also tried to attend a czech course...but nothing :S maybe just cause we italians are so lazy!

[elisek0908]

nop, it´s because Czech is to complicated, that a lot of Czechs doesn´t understand it, too XD

[gianni785]

I definitely agree!!!! :D

[Koxsos]

whatever you say, but the key is to learn English first in order to use this guide.

[Owenos]

yes you are

[sexysexgirl1]

Umím perfektně česky šrotu a já toto opravdu nepotřebujete. A jako problém.

[the4lover]

zajímavé vysvětlení českého jazyka pro západní blbce které jediné slovo si budou pamatovat (jedno pivo)

[thsaraah]

dober dan :) i'm from slovenia and czech is preety similar to slovene language. for ''how are you?'' we say ''kako ste?'' or ''kako se imate?''. 'dobre, a vy' is 'dobro, in vi' in slovene... i like your language very much :)

pozdrav iz slovenije! :*

[rysio024]

for me czech sounds like a sweetened Polish , I watched a Czech film yeasterday and I laughted every time they were speaking ...... the movie was kindda boring but your language made it funny .

POZDROWIENIA Z POLSKI

oooo and before I forget it ,

the right way of saying" Jak se mate " is Jak się masz xD

[MrZiemniak]

right, this language sounds for us - the Poles, like diminutives :)

[mozartinaa]

Kazdy Polak ktorego znam mowi ze czeski jest dla was smieszny :-D Pozdrawiam z Czech :)

[cincincincin]

Does "AHOJ" mean "hello" AND "goodbye"?

[sairita456]

you can use "ahoj" for "goodbye" too, but if you want to say something diferent you can say "Nashledanou" for "goodbye"

[cincincincin]

Thank you so much! :D

[kocickalea]

Well, Na shledanou is a more formal, you often you it when you say Dobrý den for Ahoj, which is like "Good day". And Ahoj really does mean hello and goodbye :)