It’s a sausage to me
Welcome to a fresh edition of Soundczech in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by the group Vypsaná fixa and the phrase to listen out for is “je mi to jedno”.
View ArticleStraw sticking out of my boots
Welcome to SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s popular series in which you can learn things about the Czech language you will not learn elsewhere, and enjoy music while doing it. In today’s edition, we’ll hear...
View ArticleA fight on a knife’s edge
Welcome to this edition of SoundCzech looking at expressions in the Czech language through song lyrics. In today’s episode we look at sayings associated with the word battle or fight which is boj in...
View ArticleWhat might they be doing in Cutthroats?
Hello and welcome to SoundCzech, our weekly programme to help you learn Czech through song lyrics, and in this case place names as well. The Czech Republic is packed with towns and villages with...
View ArticleOn your knees!
Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s Czech language course in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by Ivan Hlas and is called Na kolena.
View ArticleHaving no steam
Hello and welcome to SoundCzech, the only programme on global airwaves in which you can learn something interesting about the Czech language while listening to song lyrics. In this edition, we’ll hear...
View ArticleTo have butter on your head and a dumpling in your throat
Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s Czech language course in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by a singer going by the name...
View ArticleHey, don’t brag!
Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, our long-running language series which looks at popular Czech sayings through song lyrics. The expression in today’s episode is Hele, nemachruj (Hey, don’t...
View ArticleBlood and milk meets thunderbasher
Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s Czech language course in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is a traditional Czech folk song...
View ArticleLife on a heap
Hello and welcome to SoundCzech, our popular miniseries in which you can learn some interesting Czech phrases while listening to music. Today’s song is by Vladimír Mišík and it’s called “Co ti dám”....
View ArticleYay, work!
Welcome to a new edition of SoundCzech, our long-running series looking at sayings and expressions through song lyrics. Today’s expressions all have to do with the Czech word for work – práce – at a...
View ArticleThe delicacies of you and You
English speaking foreigners to the Czech Republic who are interested in the language are often befuddled or even annoyed by the feature of formal and informal speech in Czech grammar, called vykání...
View ArticleI need to get out of this hole
Welcome to SoundCzech our long-running language series in which you can learn Czech idioms through song lyrics. Today’s final edition looks at the expression vypdanout z týhle díry – to get out of...
View ArticleDictionary of Communist Totalitarianism decodes the language of propaganda
How did communist propaganda brainwash people? What were the most frequent words used in the communist press? And was it at all possible to learn any real news from the censored newspapers? These are...
View ArticleCzech expats from around the world come to Dobruška to connect with their...
Every summer the north-east Bohemian town of Dobruška turns truly cosmopolitan, opening its doors to Czech language students from around the world. The Czech language summer school organized by...
View ArticleDžíny, hamburgry and komputry: is Czech under threat from English?
‘English is attacking Czech from all sides’ one newspaper columnist recently despaired, while others talk of Czech’s ‘battle for survival’ in a world in which ever more English is spoken. From terms...
View ArticleAnother rotten day!
Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s language course in which you can pick up useful phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is called Další blbej den (the Czech...
View ArticleWhen every vote counts
Welcome to this week’s SoundCzech, a series where we teach you useful Czech words and phrases through songs. Today we will listen to Tomáš Klus’s song Panu bohu do oken. And since this is the...
View ArticleSmart vs. dumb
Welcome to another new edition of SoundCzech our long-running language series in which you can learn words and idioms through song lyrics. Today's song is by the Czech pop group Chinaski and is called...
View ArticleThe sun came out today
Hello and welcome to the newest edition of SoundCzech. To help you shake off the winter blues, and learn a bit of Czech in the process, we will listen today to Jaromír Nohavica’s song Ahoj, Slunko,...
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