Czechmatediary

If you live in Prague then it is time for you to go into a battle. The Wenceslas Square is about to get a makeover of one of the historical buildings there and it is not going to be pretty.

The investor calls it The Flower House but on the preliminary images it sure does not look like a flower to me….it is a monster!! He must feel guilty about the look because he is promising the Prague citizens something unachievable: getting the square  rid of prostitutes and druggies via this construction. Well, it may get so far that when this monster is finished there will be nobody walking around! [continue reading…]

This picture will cool down your simmering summer brains a bit. I found this picture on line but the site does not give you any info where in the Czech Republic was the image taken. It almost looks like one of those fancy ice hotels, doesn’t it??
CZ: Nepoznavate nekdo tento zasnezeny cesky kostel? Neni to nadhera?

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Source: http://www.graphics99.com/aftermath-of-a-snow-storm-in-czech-republic-funny-amazing-foto/

I don’t remember when do native Czech kids learn to pronounce the sharp Czech ‘r’ and ‘r s hackem’ but our almost 6 year old Hahna is still can’t do it. I remember when I was in kindergarten I had to go to a speech therapy where they taught me how to say ‘r’ by substituting it with the letter ‘d’. So instead of ‘trenky’ (shorts) I would say ‘tdenky’. The trick is to say the word at first really slow, then increase the speed and with time and practice the magic starts to work and – voila – you get the word ‘trenky’.

Many times the process is not so easy and the kids are resilient to any kind of treatment. Well, any kind of standart treatment. One dad got supposedly so mad over his son’s inability to pronounce the correct r that he promissed him if he learns it he can yell the word ‘prdel’ (ass) out of the window every day at noon. And guess what? To the dismay of the neighbors it worked. [continue reading…]

I went to Target today and my Czech sensor went off again. This time it was this cute eco shopping bag in a dollar section. Can you tell why?

Target is more and more starting to respect the fact that the Bohemians are slowly but surely overtaking the world ;). Next year  the Czech font will be the biggest one of all!

CZ: Tak jsem sla dneska nakupovat do Targetu a v dolarove sekci jsem objevila novy poklad!

Targetu konecne pomalu dochazi, ze Bohemove pomalu ale  jiste vevodi celemu svetu ;). Pristi rok bude nase ‘dobry den’ napsane temi nejvetsimi pismeny!

Summer is here and our brains switch off to a vacation mode. So let’s wake them up a little bit with some FUN Czech facts! Memorize them and you will be considered a Czech guru by your surroundings :).

CZ: Leto uz je v plnem proudu a nase mozecky jsou nekde v lese na jahodach. Pojdme je zkusit probudit par zajimavyni fakty o Ceske republice!

• 90% of Czechs have completed at least secondary education – the highest score in the EU (along with Poles, Slovaks, and Slovenes).
• The Czech Republic has the most hospital beds per inhabitant in the EU.
• Czech people have the second highest death rate for cancer in the EU (after Hungary).
• Czech and Slovak languages are mutually intelligible to people accustomed to the other language’s pronuciation, particularily people who have lived at the time of Czechoslovakia (the country split in 1993) . The Sorbian languages spoken by a minority of people in south-eastern Germany (Saxony and Brandenburg) are also closely related to Czech language. The relation between these West Slavic languages is a similar to that of Castillan Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Portuguese together. [continue reading…]

If you are following the Czech news even a little bit you know yet another corruption affair has taken its place. A couple of days ago the Czech police arrested 10 members of the Czech government (in the middle of the night!!!) and now the prime minister Necas resigned, admitting having his fingers in the corruption scandal as well.

Under the Czech Constitution, the prime minister’s resignation means the fall of the entire government, after which it is up to the president to name a new prime minister designate. All eyes are now on president Zeman who is he going to pick. [continue reading…]

Fujara is not some new action game on your iPhone but a 6-feet-long rare folk Slovak musical instrument from 12. century. It looks like a large flute with 3 side holes and a parallel smaller tube, which supplies air to the top of the flute. Cherished in the seclusion of Slovakian mountains by shepherds, the fujara and its rich spectrum of healing overtones were preserved over the centuries. Until recently the fujara was not known outside of Slovakia, where only a small number of traditional musicians play the instrument, and a handful of craftsmen there can make one. But now people all over the world are discovering beauty and unique qualities of fujara, and there is growing number of fujara players…AND you can be one of them (you don’t have to know how to read the notes)!

Learn to play Slovak fujara at the Common Ground on the Hill (non-profit organization in Maryland) from a Czech musician Bob Rychlik. [continue reading…]

While many women have problems conceiving a child this lucky Czech woman conceived quintuplets naturally! The odds of conceiving quintuplets naturally is one in several million, according to Dr Wright Bates, from the University of Alabama. What is the chance of this happening in Czech????!!!!

Read the full article here (click here).

CZ: Zatimco mnoho zen ma problemy prirodne otehotnet alespon s jednim ditetem, tato stastna zena otehotnela prirodne primo s patercatami!!!!! Podle doktora Wrighta Batese z alabamske university se takova sance naskytne jedenkrat z nekolika milionu, tak si teprve musite predstavit jak mala sance je, ze se to stane zrovna v Cechach!!!!

Cely clanek si muzete precist zde (klidnete zde).