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| shreypete Pentaglot Groupie Czech RepublicRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6091 days ago 90 posts - 93 votes  Speaks: English*, Hindi, Telugu, CzechB1, SpanishB2 Studies: GermanB2, FrenchA2, Dutch, Swedish | Message 1 of 3 25 January 2008 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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So it's been 4 months since I've started learning czech. I've finished up to Chapter 7 in my czech book (Czech Step by Step by Lida Hola). I did excellently well on my semester final (got a 99.5). My goal is to finish chapter 8 and test out of the second semester as soon as it starts ( on Feb. 18). Although I've finished quite a few chapters, I'm still not able to initiate a conversation. Probably because I'm too scared that someone will make rude comments about how I'm speaking. But I do speak in Czech in certain occasions where I HAVE to.
I've noticed that not all Czech are good at English (in fact most of them aren't). So I guess that's good in the sense that I can improve my Czech more efficiently. However sometimes, it can be a pain because when you want to get certain things done and you can't, because language is the only barrier. The czechs seem to be friendly whenever I try and attempt to speak in their language which is quite encouraging. But the fact that this language is not very popular and is limited to only two countries (Czech Republic and Slovakia) can be quite discouraging at times. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| PolyglotNZ Pentaglot Groupie New ZealandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6147 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, German, Mandarin, Japanese Studies: Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian | Message 2 of 3 25 January 2008 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
Don't be scared! The worst thing that could happen is that the other person doesn't understand what you say and you have to repeat it. :) If you have Czech friends, talk to them and ask them to correct your pronunciation! If they understand what you say, your next step is to try it out with a stranger (who speaks Czech, of course). I do know how you feel though. I had a similar problem in the past, but if you don't use the language and make mistakes, you will never learn. After all, errare humanum est! Edited by PolyglotNZ on 25 January 2008 at 9:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| shreypete Pentaglot Groupie Czech RepublicRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6091 days ago 90 posts - 93 votes Speaks: English*, Hindi, Telugu, CzechB1, SpanishB2 Studies: GermanB2, FrenchA2, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3 of 3 26 January 2008 at 4:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello there Polyglot NZ, thanks for the advice. I've always had a fear of "applying" the languages I've learned in real situations. But with czech, I'm slowly improving and I'm trying my best to speak in as many occasions as I can. I guess all my fear started when I went to Belgium for a summer holiday and attempted to speak the little French I could recollect, and the person was so rude to me that he just said "Please don't speak french again". That was it for me....eversince then, I've been uncomfortable because I don't want to offend someone by messing up their langauage in any way.
The problem with Prague is that I don't get to interact with the czech students (as I'm in the English medical parallel). In fact it would be a miracle if I even saw them (well that's not true because we see them most of the time) but it's just so hard to strike up a conversation with these guys. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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