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[ddeubel]

Neni zac..................

DD

PS. for Czech music, check out LUCIE -- I don't know where you'd find them online to download but they are the standard. The U2 of C.R.

[mithridates]

[jinju]

Ive never heard of Slovio, Mith. I think it could have its pluses for someone who would use it to learn other Slavic languages later on. How close does it bridge the gap between Eastern and Western Slavic languages?

[mithridates]

I'm not sure because I don't know any Slavic languages myself but the creator is Czech and he knows Russian as well - I think it's supposed to be a bit of a combination of all of them with reference to Old Church Slavonian as well. I posted on it a few months ago and some people who knew Russian and Polish said they could understand it, so it seems to be pretty much the same idea as Interlingua or Lingua Franca Nova, which have been created to be readable at first glance to Romance speakers.
One thing people don't seem to like about Slovio is that plurals are done with an -s instead of turning into a vowel. I think the creator had a reason for that but I can't remember why.
Here's what it looks like:

[mithridates]

Oh yeah, and for extremely basic sentences in most languages this site is pretty good:

http://travlang.com/languages/

[dogbert]

The prepositions and vocabulary appear heavily biased toward Russian.

[ddeubel]

I agree with the others, Slovio is really just Russian phonetically written in the latin alphabet, with a sprinkling of other little things.....ah those pan-rusky fanatics! Still dreaming......we have Pushkin to thank for all that....

The one thing I hate about Russian is how the vowels just stick and roll around in the mouth. Too many loooooong, dlooooouuuuuhy vowels. When speaking, I feel like saying to the Russians, "spit it out!" Sounds like they are speaking with marbles in their mouth and they don't announciate unlike other slavic speakers. Actually now thinking about it further, sounds as if they had drunk a few bottles of vodka before breakfast.......but yeah, that's a bad stereotype.
Paka,

DD

[mithridates]

Here's the opinion of someone on the Wikipedia talk page today:

[mithridates]

One more site with basic phrases for a number of languages including Czech:

http://www.loecsen.com/index.php?lang=en

[Neil]

The other week I was at a bookstore in Gangnam (can't remember the name but it's next to the big movie theatre on the main street) and was suprised to see a large selection of Czech language textbooks there. I'd imagine they'd all be Korean to Czech in their translations but it might be worth a go if your Koreans good or could help you with both languages.

[mithridates]

I've even seen two good Old Church Slavonic texts over at Bandi & Luni's. There are a lot of trilingual textbooks as well or at least ones with the English meaning in parenthesis when they think it'll help the student. Like German Tür - �� (��:door) for example to help the student make the connection.