Haxeh
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| 15 Jul 2012 08:44 AM |
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.
-Meeting- 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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sinii
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| 15 Jul 2012 08:47 AM |
Ahoj!
Neat, Czech has short words that are easy to remember. |
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Haxeh
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| 15 Jul 2012 08:48 AM |
| Don't worry, we have lot of really long words. But they're not that common. |
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sinii
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| 15 Jul 2012 08:51 AM |
| 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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Haxeh
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| 15 Jul 2012 08:53 AM |
| 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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sinii
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| 15 Jul 2012 08:56 AM |
| 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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Haxeh
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| 15 Jul 2012 08:59 AM |
| Oh yeah, history is not my favorite subject. |
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sinii
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| 15 Jul 2012 09:00 AM |
| It's my least favourite subject but I knew that. |
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| 15 Jul 2012 09:01 AM |
| 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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Haxeh
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| 15 Jul 2012 09:57 AM |
| Yeah. We confirmed the Czechoslovakia- Soviet Contract. |
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| 15 Jul 2012 10:02 AM |
| Ahoy is a big theatre in Holland ^3^ |
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XxJimmyxX
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| 15 Jul 2012 11:53 AM |
| 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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sinii
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| 15 Jul 2012 11:54 AM |
| What language, Jimmy? Czech, or Slovak? |
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XxJimmyxX
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| 15 Jul 2012 11:55 AM |
| Whatever Czechoslovakian is. |
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| 15 Jul 2012 11:56 AM |
| Czechoslovakian is not a language. There's two languages spoken there, that would be Czech and Slovak. |
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XxJimmyxX
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| 15 Jul 2012 11:57 AM |
| Oh, well this is awkward. Uhmmm, I guess it's Slovak. |
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XxJimmyxX
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| 15 Jul 2012 12:00 PM |
| Wait, it might be Czech because I remember my grandma teaching me "jak se máš" a year or two ago. |
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| 15 Jul 2012 12:05 PM |
| In my opinion, jak se máš is easy to remember. It's short and easy to say. |
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Haxeh
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| 15 Jul 2012 01:02 PM |
| "Shut your mouth." is in Czech "Drž hubu." which is pronounced "Drsh hubu." |
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| 15 Jul 2012 01:03 PM |
| That's not what my grandma taught me, so maybe it is Slovakian. Are the languages similar? |
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Haxeh
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| 15 Jul 2012 01:06 PM |
| 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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| 15 Jul 2012 01:08 PM |
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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