Comments on: Michael’s story: Gems of Czech language (part IV.) / Michal vypravi o klenotech ceskeho jazyka (4. cast)

By: Mommy diary: the beginnings / Denik maminky zijici v zahranici - zacatky

Mommy diary: the beginnings / Denik maminky zijici v zahranici - zacatky — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:53:21 +0000

[...] you cannot decline that word (in Czech language the nouns, pronouns and adjectives are inflected into 7 different cases) [...]

By: Frantisek

Frantisek — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:59:21 +0000

It is also useful to practice the sentence;

Cesky je tezky. (Czech is difficult, pun intended)

That way you learn to distinguish between;

TSJ & TJ

By: MichaelM

MichaelM — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:54:38 +0000

Thank you for your reply and comment, Frantisek. Tongue twisters tie the tongue terminally … but in another language? Ouch (but I’ll practice them all the same.

By: Frantisek

Frantisek — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:52:00 +0000

Nice post!
I can understand you are struggling with Czech, I taught myself only by going there and my native language (Dutch) and dialect (Brabantian) at least contain a large amount of the sounds of the Czech language.
If you want to practice your pronounciation I would recommend using the following sentences.
If you can pronounce them all, Czechs will regard you as VERY good at their language and won’t mind your otherwise less than brilliant language skills.
Here goes;

Tri sta tricet tri stríbrných stríka?ek stríkalo pres tri sta tricet stríbrných strech (333 silver sprinklers were spraying over 333 silver roofs).

Str? prst skrz krk!!! (literally, push finger in throat)

Blb pln slz mrkl (a fool squinted full of tears)

Trp drp (to tolerate a gossip)

The last three are very famous because they do not contain any vowels