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Forced blogging vacation? / Nucene blogove prazdniny?

Hi to all,

Just a quick note: I managed to spill coffee on my laptop and a couple of the keys stopped working so I had to take it to the repair shop and it will be ready after the New Year!! That means a lot of days without blogging :( . I will try to borrow a computer from my dear MIL but I can’t promise anything. If I won’t be able to get it from her let’s called it ‘Forced blogging vacation’.

CZ: Ahoj vsichni! Podarilo se mi  rozlit kafe na muj laptop, takze bude v oprave az do Noveho Roku :( . Pokusim se pujcit pocitac od me drahe tchyne, ale jestlize to nevyjde, budu si muset dat nucene blogove prazdniny.

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The most difficult question to answer: ‘How are you?’ / Nejobtiznejsi americka otazka je ‘How are you?’

Even after 12 years of living in the US I still find myself having a hard time answering when people ask me how am I doing. My brain usually comes up with 10 different answers which mill around in there until they all cancel each other out and I end up with no answer. I don’t know why but that question puts such a pressure on me!

Should I just simply say ‘good’ but then what face expression do you use with that? Do you add a tiny bit of sigh to it to let that other person know that you are not completely good (but then that is the negative Czech side coming out in me) or should you just give them a huge grin with it so that there is no doubt that you are doing ‘good’ and then they hopefully leave you alone? [click to continue…]

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California Uggers, there is help for you! / Kalifornsti Uggeri jsou zachraneni!

As many of you are witnessing first hand, the East Coast is covered in snow. A lot of people were left without power for hours, broken trees and branches destroyed numerous homes and caused serious car accidents.

But we Californians take our winter seriously too. As soon as the temperatures hit below 70 we put our hats and scarfs on, slurp on our extra hot Lattes from Starbucks and about 91% of the California female population puts on Ugg boots. [click to continue…]

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Tagged as: humor, winter, YouTube

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What is your least favorite English word to spell? / Jake anglicke slovo neradi spelujete??

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 word to spell it would have to be:

 

NEIGHBORHOOD

Why not just ‘nejbrhud’??? ;) ) (That’s written in a Czech phonetics) [click to continue…]

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Tagged as: Czech language, English language, spelling

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Russian brotherhood? / Ruske bratrstvi?

Recently my hubby and I went to a Russian restaurant to celebrate our friend’s birthday. I was looking forward to it because I knew that some of the menu items will be similar to Czech food that I love so much. The restaurant was very nice, the food was also very yummy (although quite pricey), but the service was AWFUL! It was so bad that I have relieve to myself and write a post about it.

Actually, I take it back, the Russian bus-girls were very nice but the waiters were just out of this world rude. Let me tell you what actually happened and how it happened to spoil my idea of our Slavic ‘brotherhood’.

There was about 10 of us at the table and when we were deciding on what to order, one girl in the group asked the waiter what was good on the menu. A pretty common question right? [click to continue…]

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Tagged as: food, humor

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Google search: who eats ca…? /Kdo ji k……?

Last night I took a long look at our fat cat. And then I started thinking about how did she become so fat (we give her the same food but then she is getting older…) and that train of thought made me ask myself: “Who eats cats?”. Certain nations eat dogs but I had no clue about cats. So I asked my smart husband and he didn’t know either. And so we started a long quest that took us days to accomplish….just kidding! [click to continue…]

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Tagged as: animals, Christmas, humor, pets, traditions

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10 things in the Czech Republic that are better than in America (part II)

• NO all-you-can-eat buffets (Getting fat!!! Hello!!)

• Quality of bread
• Daily exercise consists of more than just pressing your foot on a gas pedal
• Architecture has much more personality
• Public transportation is not used just by homeless people and ex-cons
• Fruit and vegetables taste REAL (not like the weird, tasteless, waxy-looking stuff that is available in the conventional US grocery stores)

• Not everyone is suing everyone for everything
• Burty ( type of kielbasa)
• Universal public acceptance of beauty of Svickova and Vepro, Knedlo, Zelo
• Visiting another country doesn’t actually take 10 hours of flying

Do you have anything to add?? Leave a comment!

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Tagged as: Czech food, humor, practical, slovak food

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10 things in America that are better than in the Czech Republic (part I)

• All-you-can-eat buffets (I still can’t believe it!!)
• cheap clothing (love Target)
• People’s positive attitude
• Bridal/baby showers
• Option of going to school until you are 100 years old
• Free water and bread and butter in restaurants
• Food to go (dogie bags)
• Free soda refills
• Widespread use of deodorants
• Teachers at school actually build you up rather than tear you down

What would you add? How would your top 10 list look like?

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Tagged as: communism, Czech nature, humor

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Want to leave a comment on a Czech website? Get ready for a hard battle! / Chcete zanechat koment na ceskych webovych strankach? Pripravte se na bitvu stoleti!

Now I know why most Czechs don’t comment on my articles too much. They have been taught the hard way via the Czech media! Let me explain. The other day I was browsing one of the Czech websites to find something interesting to post about and I came across an interesting article. Actually it was a personal story. I liked it a lot and wanted to comment.

At first it asked me to register which is already a nuisance to me but I was determined to finished the mission so I registered. I then proceeded to write a comment under the article. When I pressed ‘enter’ this ‘friendly’ message appeared on my screen:
‘WARNING: You now have less than 300 ducats on your ducat account. Since you have less than 300 ducats you have earned the right to post 1 comment. You have already reached your one-comment limit therefore you cannot participate in this (or any) discussion anymore.”‘ [click to continue…]

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Tagged as: humor

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OPOL can kiss my shorts! / OPOL is muzete strcit za klobouk!

As many of you know my daughter is bilingual, she now speaks fluently English and Czech. One of her favorite things to do is to sing and dance (surprise!) and her all-time favorite Czech folk song is ‘Utikej Kaco, utikej!‘, meaning ‘Run, Kaca, run!’. The song is about this girl named Kaca, who was chased by a wild black cat.

This video is a living test case where the OPOL method (One-parent-onec-language) is not necessary. I speak Czech AND English with her (when there are friends/family members who do not speak Czech) and she is still quite the bilingual star.

Enjoy!

CZ: Ma 3-leta bilingvni dcera Hanicka je dukazem toho, ze tzv. OPOL metoda (One parent one language)neni ta JEDINA metoda, kterou muzete ucit sve deti dva jazyky. I kdyz se spolu bavime cesky i anglicky (pred znamymi/rodinou, kteri cesky neumi), ovlada oba jazyky vyborne.

HAHNA SINGS ‘UTIKEJ KACO, UTIKEJ!’ (click her to view the video)

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