Czech language
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Word of the Week
Word of the Week: národní – 'national'
Národní is a Czech adjective that translates to ‘national’. Just like in English, underlying the adjective národní is the Czech word for ‘nation’, národ...
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Word of the Week
Word of the Week: děkovat – 'to thank'
Děkuji is among the first words that Czech learners tend to pick up. After all, we all want to be polite!
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Word of the Week
Word of the Week: kupovat/koupit – 'to buy'
Starting in Ancient Rome, a lowly tradesman in Roman times was a caupō, and to trade or barter was to caupōnārī...
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Word of the Week
Word of the Week: host – 'guest'
'Host' might be a challenge for English-speaking Czech learners, since the word looks like the opposite of what it means – not a guest, but a host!
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Word of the Week: kostel – 'church'
In their Latin language, the Romans had the word castellum, which meant ‘fortress’. This is straightforwardly the origin of English castle, but in Czech...
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Become a superdialectologist! Young linguists help to record Czechia’s dialects
The Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institute of the Czech Language is recruiting young language enthusiasts to document dialects and the endangered speech of older generations.
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Czechast with Danny Bate: why Josef is Pepík
Czech language from the perspective of a linguist, broadcaster and soon an author Danny Bate.
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Czech class in Germany: six bilingual schools to be established in the Bavarian border area
Bavaria wants to improve the teaching of the Czech language in the border region. Six German-Czech bilingual schools are to be established in the next school year.
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The internet transforming language of Czech youth
Czech children and teenagers are crafting their own language, filled with slang and new expressions, often borrowed from English.
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“It’s like familiar music in my brain.” Czech summer course students on learning the language
As every year, dozens of students from all over the world arrived in Czechia to take part in this year’s edition of the annual Summer Czech Course for Expats.
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Hantec enthusiasts seek to make the Brno sociolect part of UNESCO list
The promoters of hantec, a unique Czech language variety, spoken by the lower classes of Brno during the 19th and early 20th centuries, want to get it on the UNESCO list.
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Linguist Danny Bate: Best motivation for learning Czech? A mother-in-law
Linguist Danny Bate, who alternates between living in Prague and Edinburgh, has many fascinating things to say on the Czech language, which he himself is studying.
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