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isPermaLink="false">http://czechmatediary.com/?p=13973</guid> <description><![CDATA[If you are not a native Czech speaker, how does this language sound to you? Does it sound beautiful? Ugly? Funny? I researched this topic and found quite the opposite opinions &#8211; check it out: CZ: Jak vam zni cestina, jestli nejste rodily mluvci? Zni vam krasne, silene anebo naopak legracne? Prectete si, co o [...]<div
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isPermaLink="false">http://czechmatediary.com/?p=13717</guid> <description><![CDATA[I have never really talked to a vegan until I met Elizabeth via this blog, who comes from the Czech Republic but currently lives in Atlanta. She loves to cook and has a really cool and practical blog on how it is to be not only a vegan but a CZECH vegan in AMERICA. You [...]<div
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isPermaLink="false">http://czechmatediary.com/?p=13359</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; This is a guest post by Peter Korchnak, who writes American Robotnik. I met him via one of  the comments on Czechmate Diary and he immediately struck me as a great writer. Little did I know that he was born and raised in Slovakia and English is his second language! *** &#8220;I&#8217;ve been to [...]<div
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isPermaLink="false">http://czechmatediary.com/?p=13186</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of you, dear readers, recommended a very good, Czech/Slovak-related article from yesterday&#8217;s Chicago Tribune. The writer is married to a wife who has a Czech dad and a Slovak mom. He tributes her frugal, anti-credit card qualities to her CS roots. Read up about it right here (click here). Do you think her frugality [...]<div
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isPermaLink="false">http://czechmatediary.com/?p=12848</guid> <description><![CDATA[English language is easy to learn as far as speaking goes but, boy oh boy, the written part of it is not so easy anymore. There is the spelling and then the sentence order that is sometimes completely different from the one in the Czech language. If I have to name my least favorite English [...]<div
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isPermaLink="false">http://czechmatediary.com/?p=12471</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of my friends told me about this Czech TV program called &#8216;Ctyri v New Yorku&#8217; (Four in New York), which is a heart-felt documentary about 4 Czech women who have immigrated to the USA later in their life and how hard it was for them to get adjusted to a completely different way of [...]<div
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isPermaLink="false">http://czechmatediary.com/?p=12253</guid> <description><![CDATA[I have done an interview with the following Meetup group a couple of years ago so it is time to re-visit them and see how are they doing. For those who don&#8217;t know what Meetup.com is,  it is a social network of local groups with shared interest and/or nationalities. Once a group has an organizer, [...]<div
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isPermaLink="false">http://czechmatediary.com/?p=11767</guid> <description><![CDATA[And it is guest-post time again! This time the author&#8217;s name is Scott who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. After several years of tedious searching Scott came to learn that his ancestors were some of the very early Bohemian immigrants to settle in Cleveland. While  in 1910 Cleveland had a Czech community  of about 75,000, [...]<div
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