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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7374 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes  12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 16 11 March 2005 at 7:39am | IP Logged |
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Here is an empty template for the future profile of the Czech language on this website. Anybody whith a knowledge about this language, who speaks this language or is learning it is welcome to help!
The scope of each heading can be seen in the French or Italian language profiles. Please use the scope of the existing headings ('Usefulness', 'Economic importance', etc...) for your input as I can't add new headings. Try to write concise, informative, easy-to-read and if possible entertaining paragraphs. You are welcome to post proposed changes to each paragraph or to write a new paragraph yourself. If you wish to insert comments, please use Italics. If you have studied the language and used it for some time, your input will be immensely valuable to prospective learners. INTRODUCTION No text yet. USEFULNESS No text yet. CHIC FACTOR No text yet. ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE No text yet TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES No text yet COUNTRIES No text yet. SPEAKERS No text yet. VARIATIONS No text yet. CULTURE No text yet. DIFFICULTIES No text yet. GRAMMAR No text yet. PRONUNCIATION No text yet. VOCABULARY No text yet. TRANSPARENCY No text yet. SPELLING No text yet. TIME NEEDED No text yet. BOOKS No text yet. SCHOOLS No text yet. LINKS No text yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| blackr00t Diglot Groupie United States Joined 7200 days ago 40 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 2 of 16 13 March 2005 at 9:48pm | IP Logged |
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http://www.bohemica.com/
the sub-section 'czech language' seems to have a lot of helpful information. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| czech Senior Member United States Joined 7192 days ago 395 posts - 378 votes Studies: English* | Message 3 of 16 22 March 2005 at 1:07pm | IP Logged |
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INTRODUCTION
The Czech language is a member of the Slavic Language Family, which includes Polish, Slovak, Sorbian, Belorussian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, and Slovenian. As you can see, it is quite a large family. Allthough individually none of them are major world languages, most of them are intelligible to eachother. As a boy, I remember my grandmothers speaking to each other from Polish to Slovak. They could understand without any major diffuculty. My grandfather, who grew up with Czech and Polish, mastered all languages of this group and Lithuanian, which is not too different. But do not think it is easy, Czech employs a great number of sounds unfamiliar to all other languages. Writing it is not too complicated, allthough there are 39 letters of the alphabet. The accent is also hard for a nonspeaker, mixed between hard Russian and nasal Polish combined with some Serbo-Croatian slurs. But learning this will allow you many more languages without dificulty, as a Czech proverb says, " the more languages you know, the more times a person you are." 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7374 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 16 23 March 2005 at 12:27am | IP Logged |
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Czech, thank you for your contribution. Would you be able to give us some more details about the Czech language in the paragraph format?
For instance, what would you say about the Usefulness of Czech? And the regional variations of the language within the Czech republic? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| czech Senior Member United States Joined 7192 days ago 395 posts - 378 votes Studies: English* | Message 5 of 16 23 March 2005 at 3:25pm | IP Logged |
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VARIATIONS
The Czech Republic is not a vast area, and there are not many different dialects. In the past there was a Bohemian Czech version spoken in the center of the country, but that faded out. When listening to the media and reading papers, the language used is different than every day speech. This is one diffuculty in acquiring the language, since most vocab of any foreign learner comes from a newspaper or the every day media. But it is not too different. The language that us Czech use in every day speech is called "Common Czech" while the language of the media is "Standard Czech." There are no major regional variations, and if you learn it, you can basically understand anyone from west to east. But don't get too close to Poland if you don't want to be shocked by what you think is "mispronounciation, or giberish," since you would think you're both speaking the same language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| czech Senior Member United States Joined 7192 days ago 395 posts - 378 votes Studies: English* | Message 6 of 16 23 March 2005 at 3:26pm | IP Logged |
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Escribire algo mas tarde Francois, pero ahora tengo que estudiar el castellano.
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7374 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 16 23 March 2005 at 10:56pm | IP Logged |
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Czech, thanks for your text on Variations, but please only use English in these forums, all people here do not understand Spanish.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 8 of 16 09 June 2005 at 11:07am | IP Logged |
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No offense to czech, but I've just created a profile for Czech.
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