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Saunagukin
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: Between Kyobo Tower & the Ritz
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 Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:12 am Post subject: Teach me Czech, please. |
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I am moving to the Czech Republic soon and speak NO Czech whatsoever. I am looking for a native Czech speaker to teach me some very basic stuff...spelling, pronunciation and simple sentences. If you can do it or know someone who can, PM me.
Or if anyone knows of a decent class in Seoul, that would be cool, too.
Thanks. |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:03 am Post subject: Re: Teach me Czech, please. |
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| Saunagukin wrote: |
I am moving to the Czech Republic soon and speak NO Czech whatsoever. I am looking for a native Czech speaker to teach me some very basic stuff...spelling, pronunciation and simple sentences. If you can do it or know someone who can, PM me.
Or if anyone knows of a decent class in Seoul, that would be cool, too.
Thanks. |
I speak Polish and Chech is a very easy language compared to it.. Words are very short. To me it sounds like baby talk. Its an easy language to pick up. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: |
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phonetically speaking (incorrect spelling)
pivo = beer
pi-et peef = 5 beers |
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Peeping Tom
Joined: 15 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:58 am Post subject: Re: Teach me Czech, please. |
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| Wrench wrote: |
| Saunagukin wrote: |
I am moving to the Czech Republic soon and speak NO Czech whatsoever. I am looking for a native Czech speaker to teach me some very basic stuff...spelling, pronunciation and simple sentences. If you can do it or know someone who can, PM me.
Or if anyone knows of a decent class in Seoul, that would be cool, too.
Thanks. |
I speak Polish and Chech is a very easy language compared to it.. Words are very short. To me it sounds like baby talk. Its an easy language to pick up. |
Hahahahahaha, you're joking, right?
I studied it until my university offered no more courses, and I didn't find it too easy. Although compared to Korean, yeah, it's not so difficult. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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You'll enjoy C.R. -- the beer , especially how people are so down to earth and without pretentions regarding status (though of course it does exist on some level but you can sit down with a doctor, a ditch digger, a teacher, a rich businessman and not know really who is who.). Well educated, full of "c'est la vie" (to je zivot) due to history/invasions, being the little compromising guy. Sad point is their attitude in general towards cigane/romany (gypsies). Terrible. Ohhhh also the food. Not great in my opinion but filling. Knedlicky(bread dumplings) with every meal, ringed in grease -- but make sure you tell them their cuisine is of the highest standard!!! and wash it down with many Budvar.
I am not Czech but speak Czech and have translated Czech (Nezval, a Czech poet). Could help you out with basic stuff.
Where you going? Prague I guess?
DD
"Lepsi tepla piva nez studena nemcka." [Czech proverb....better a warm beer than a cold german woman] |
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Saunagukin
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: Between Kyobo Tower & the Ritz
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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I'm starting in Prague...and then traveling from there. Might get an apartment for a month and then move on.
DD- warm beer/German woman...cute |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:00 am Post subject: Re: Teach me Czech, please. |
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| Wrench wrote: |
| Saunagukin wrote: |
I am moving to the Czech Republic soon and speak NO Czech whatsoever. I am looking for a native Czech speaker to teach me some very basic stuff...spelling, pronunciation and simple sentences. If you can do it or know someone who can, PM me.
Or if anyone knows of a decent class in Seoul, that would be cool, too.
Thanks. |
I speak Polish and Chech is a very easy language compared to it.. Words are very short. To me it sounds like baby talk. Its an easy language to pick up. |
I speak Polish too but you have to be careful! Czech and Polish though somewhat similar are not really as similar as Polish and Slovak. But heres the thing with Czech and Polish: a lot of the words have the opposite meanings and can get you in trouble. One such example, though there are MANY more is the word "laska". Slang in Polish for pretty girl, sort of the equivalent of Korean �ư���, in Czech it means *beep* or *beep*. There are more examples I cant remember. Can you imagine misusing this word in a conversation? |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:04 am Post subject: Re: Teach me Czech, please. |
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| Peeping Tom wrote: |
| Wrench wrote: |
| Saunagukin wrote: |
I am moving to the Czech Republic soon and speak NO Czech whatsoever. I am looking for a native Czech speaker to teach me some very basic stuff...spelling, pronunciation and simple sentences. If you can do it or know someone who can, PM me.
Or if anyone knows of a decent class in Seoul, that would be cool, too.
Thanks. |
I speak Polish and Chech is a very easy language compared to it.. Words are very short. To me it sounds like baby talk. Its an easy language to pick up. |
Hahahahahaha, you're joking, right?
I studied it until my university offered no more courses, and I didn't find it too easy. Although compared to Korean, yeah, it's not so difficult. |
Do you speak another Slavic language though? I never studied Slovak. I went to Bratislava and could basically catch 80% of what people were saying. if I wanted to pick it up it would take me a few weeks to get really good at it. Czech shouldnt be difficult to pick up especially if I picked up Slovak first. Its like Japanese speakers being able to pick up Korean quickly. I think Mitridates learned Japanese first and then picked up Korean with ease. Same deal. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| ddeubel wrote: |
"Lepsi tepla piva nez studena nemcka." [Czech proverb....better a warm beer than a cold german woman] |
Nice example of why Czech would be so easy to pick up for a speaker of Polish or Slovak. I got every word here except for studena. |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| ddeubel wrote: |
"Lepsi tepla piva nez studena nemcka." [Czech proverb....better a warm beer than a cold german woman] |
Nice example of why Czech would be so easy to pick up for a speaker of Polish or Slovak. I got every word here except for studena. |
Same |
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Peeping Tom
Joined: 15 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: Teach me Czech, please. |
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| jinju wrote: |
| Peeping Tom wrote: |
| Wrench wrote: |
| Saunagukin wrote: |
I am moving to the Czech Republic soon and speak NO Czech whatsoever. I am looking for a native Czech speaker to teach me some very basic stuff...spelling, pronunciation and simple sentences. If you can do it or know someone who can, PM me.
Or if anyone knows of a decent class in Seoul, that would be cool, too.
Thanks. |
I speak Polish and Chech is a very easy language compared to it.. Words are very short. To me it sounds like baby talk. Its an easy language to pick up. |
Hahahahahaha, you're joking, right?
I studied it until my university offered no more courses, and I didn't find it too easy. Although compared to Korean, yeah, it's not so difficult. |
Do you speak another Slavic language though? I never studied Slovak. I went to Bratislava and could basically catch 80% of what people were saying. if I wanted to pick it up it would take me a few weeks to get really good at it. Czech shouldnt be difficult to pick up especially if I picked up Slovak first. Its like Japanese speakers being able to pick up Korean quickly. I think Mitridates learned Japanese first and then picked up Korean with ease. Same deal. |
No, that was my first Slavic language. Definitely, if you spoke another Slavic language it would be much easier to pick up. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: Teach me Czech, please. |
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| jinju wrote: |
| Peeping Tom wrote: |
| Wrench wrote: |
| Saunagukin wrote: |
I am moving to the Czech Republic soon and speak NO Czech whatsoever. I am looking for a native Czech speaker to teach me some very basic stuff...spelling, pronunciation and simple sentences. If you can do it or know someone who can, PM me.
Or if anyone knows of a decent class in Seoul, that would be cool, too.
Thanks. |
I speak Polish and Chech is a very easy language compared to it.. Words are very short. To me it sounds like baby talk. Its an easy language to pick up. |
Hahahahahaha, you're joking, right?
I studied it until my university offered no more courses, and I didn't find it too easy. Although compared to Korean, yeah, it's not so difficult. |
Do you speak another Slavic language though? I never studied Slovak. I went to Bratislava and could basically catch 80% of what people were saying. if I wanted to pick it up it would take me a few weeks to get really good at it. Czech shouldnt be difficult to pick up especially if I picked up Slovak first. Its like Japanese speakers being able to pick up Korean quickly. I think Mitridates learned Japanese first and then picked up Korean with ease. Same deal. |
Same here, first Japanese, and now studying Korean without too much difficulty. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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I speak Polish too but you have to be careful! Czech and Polish though somewhat similar are not really as similar as Polish and Slovak. But heres the thing with Czech and Polish: a lot of the words have the opposite meanings and can get you in trouble. One such example, though there are MANY more is the word "laska". Slang in Polish for pretty girl, sort of the equivalent of Korean �ư���, in Czech it means *beep* or *beep*. There are more examples I cant remember. Can you imagine misusing this word in a conversation?
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I agree, some things can get you into trouble BUT NOT LASKA! It means "love" in Czech as in "muj laska" -- my love.................
Yes, knowing one slavic language makes the others comprehensible. But some are closer. Czech is a very "petrified" slavic language and since it is very unchanging/old, it connects to some of the older slavic languages -- serb/croatian in particular. Polish is closer to Ukranian but when I lived in Kyiv, I could understand alot of Ukranian (when I heard it spoken!!! most in the big capital except kids, spoke Russian) when I heard it.
Russian is completely different though slavic, especially the writing system. I went crazy trying to learn Russian. Took classes but couldn't read -- so many letters the same as the latin alphabet but with a different pronounciation. Example....."Pectopah" is a sign you will see all over the place. All latin letters in the cyrillic alphabet. How do you pronounce it in Russian? "Restauran (t)"!!!!!!!!! Imagine seeing that word and then having to think/pronounce "restauran ? Crazy and many more examples in Russian. But my Russian friends screamed in laughter every time I told them we'd met at the Pectopah........
Saunagukin --- good luck in Prague. Remember when you walk around the city to look up!!! I wandered around Prague for years and then one magical night started looking up. Whole new world of beauty and largely all the great architecture of Prague is framed on the top of the buildings...
If you get to Karlovy Vary, the international (but terribly now Russified) spa city, I'm probably still remembered by citizens and mafia alike. ......great little city for relaxation and fun. Bring a book by Hrabal, he epitomizes the soul of the Czech (ignore Kundera, a fakir, unless you read his "Zert", his first book called, "the Joke".
DD |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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I speak Polish too but you have to be careful! Czech and Polish though somewhat similar are not really as similar as Polish and Slovak. But heres the thing with Czech and Polish: a lot of the words have the opposite meanings and can get you in trouble. One such example, though there are MANY more is the word "laska". Slang in Polish for pretty girl, sort of the equivalent of Korean �ư���, in Czech it means *beep* or *beep*. There are more examples I cant remember. Can you imagine misusing this word in a conversation?
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I agree, some things can get you into trouble BUT NOT LASKA! It means "love" in Czech as in "muj laska" -- my love.................
Yes, knowing one slavic language makes the others comprehensible. But some are closer. Czech is a very "petrified" slavic language and since it is very unchanging/old, it connects to some of the older slavic languages -- serb/croatian in particular. Polish is closer to Ukranian but when I lived in Kyiv, I could understand alot of Ukranian (when I heard it spoken!!! most in the big capital except kids, spoke Russian) when I heard it.
Russian is completely different though slavic, especially the writing system. I went crazy trying to learn Russian. Took classes but couldn't read -- so many letters the same as the latin alphabet but with a different pronounciation. Example....."Pectopah" is a sign you will see all over the place. All latin letters in the cyrillic alphabet. How do you pronounce it in Russian? "Restauran (t)"!!!!!!!!! Imagine seeing that word and then having to think/pronounce "restauran ? Crazy and many more examples in Russian. But my Russian friends screamed in laughter every time I told them we'd met at the Pectopah........
Saunagukin --- good luck in Prague. Remember when you walk around the city to look up!!! I wandered around Prague for years and then one magical night started looking up. Whole new world of beauty and largely all the great architecture of Prague is framed on the top of the buildings...
If you get to Karlovy Vary, the international (but terribly now Russified) spa city, I'm probably still remembered by citizens and mafia alike. ......great little city for relaxation and fun. Bring a book by Hrabal, he epitomizes the soul of the Czech (ignore Kundera, a fakir, unless you read his "Zert", his first book called, "the Joke".
DD |
Hmm..if not laska then its another woprd and now I cant remember which. However there are words like that. |
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Saunagukin
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: Between Kyobo Tower & the Ritz
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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DD- Thanks for the recommendation on the book. I'll order it from whattheb...well, you know...
Also, thanks for the advice to look up. Good advice for anywhere...especially places where windows fall out of buildings (just happened in my building)! |
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