Czech for Foreigners 1

[markabroad]

Thank you - not sure I agree but its always nice to hear.

[tuhypyj]

You're cute .. kiss from czech :))

[radikborov]

The pronounciation is terrible, on the other hand you can pronounce Ř. And the phrases were also a bit wrong. Czech inflects nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs but you didn't. But if it's a phrasebook, there should be exact forms.

But generally, it's OK. You're better than others. Czech is really difficult and for a long explanation.

[markabroad]

@radikborov Yeah, you are porbably right, right now I am reading Honzikova Cestu to my unborn son and my wife is constantly correcting me. The biggest problem is that there are no study materials out there that pronounce the various Czech words. When I was learning Spanish - I had a book with words and a CD that would repeat the English and then Czech - so far I have found nothing like this in Czech. It seems that for a country that wants its foreigners to speak Czech there is very little help

[radikborov]

@markabroad So, you're really interested in Czech language. Is your wife Czech, if she correts your mistakes? It's truth, there aren't many books for foreigners, but one company called Fraus could have some students books or simple stories in Czech.

You may check it, I'll send you adress.

They have perfect books. I think I found there something for foreigners too.

There's English version of the site.

[markabroad]

@radikborov Yes my wife is Czech. I have plently books, Lida Hola, Czech For fereigners, I read many Czech books (or try to at least), but they do not help for pronunciation. Like I said more popular languages have CDs or DVDs that have almost full dictionaries translating the English to said language as well as conversations - even the Lida Hola books which are the preferred books for teachers to teach foreigners Czech is very limited in the verbal part. There are no advanced audio books

[radikborov]

@markabroad Well, I believe, it might be hard to find a really complete book with CDs etc. Czech isn't English or Spanish indeed.

So now do you concentrate only on pronunciation and reading, or do you also learn some grammar and syntax?

[markabroad]

Dik, potřebuji moc štěstí

[bfkraven3]

Hodně štěstí, čeština není lehký jazyk :)

Good luck, czech isn´t easy languague.

[markabroad]

Hi pourmoinyc - strangely I might even tend to agree with you, but many others would not. In Czech lessons we have a standing joke that there are no rules in Czech. But there is a pattern I have noticed. There are not a lot of words just many extensions, with a main word base and suffixes and prefixes added to them. Look at the 500 Autosematic words a am putting up, these are the words to learn. The rest you can make up as you go along,lol. Don't ever give up, loose one goal and loose them all.

[pourmoinyc]

I envy your knowledge but I'm afraid Czech is impossible to learn.I speak fluently and read 8 languages and i have tried for years to learn Czech to no avail.I'm probably and idiot.Yet my golden dream is to live in CZ.I even doubt Czechs can understand each other and when there is no one around they revert to French,Spanish,Greek or Italian!!! (Just kidding..).So many letters without vowels and dozens of accents!!! I think I'll give up....

[InuyashanKag]

@pourmoinyc I have a German friend that speaks Czech really well...

[JayashriV]

Interesting... well in Singapore, with about 120 Czechs out of 5 million people, I've got absolutely no opportunity to hear how words are pronounced. (No, I don't plan on coming to CR to stay or anything. I'm just generally interested in languages.)

I went the other way, learning the grammar first. I always like to do that. I'm about 1 month into learning it and so far have been able to conjugate quite easily... and accusative declensions.

Thank you for teaching me some pronunciation.

[JayashriV]

I decided to learn Grammar first because my aim is not really to be able to communicate at a moderate level, but rather learn the language as a whole. And I like grammar very much, even if it's really hard. I can appreciate a language better when I know its grammar.

[awesomeverano]

you are awesome Mark, I now have an excuse to learn Czech.

has some words similar to spanish > love the phone ringing :)

[markabroad]

Thanks - nice to hear that someone out there thinks I am awesome,lol. And damn that phone. Hope that I helped somehow - but similar to Spanish you say - all I know a dos cervesos porfevor (probably not spelled right).

[Regesid]

Do u accept credit cards?

We say... Berete platební karty? :) Nebo kreditni karty :)

příjmáte - sound weird... its no body saing that :D

[revivetheredhead]

Hi, I have to sing the Czech national anthem in a film role I and doing and cannot find any good videos of someone singing the anthem. Would you mind singing it or suggesting where I could find a good youtube video of someone singing it? Thanks!

[allthestarsinthesky]

you should never, ever, become a language teacher. no body has a photographic memory. except maybe you, you tosser.

[markabroad]

Thanks for the advise - not sure why you would have to use profanities though, clearly you are some sort of in breed. Have an awesome day :)

[beast6228]

vyser si voko

[JerkieLegLeg]

@beast6228 aneb jak se řekne česky "fuck off"...

[Lolisatko]

pekny tryko s Happy Tree Friends

[markabroad]

dik, to je moje nejlepsi tricko.

[dirrx]

hey, your "ř" is excellent!

hope you're having a pleasant stay in the CR

[markabroad]

thank you, yes am having a great time in CR