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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4805 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 17 of 60 12 October 2012 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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ox's eye to be precise (btw is it correct English "ox's"? I've never written it before).
but that's not the only strangely named food. have you seen "utopenec" in a pub? (utopenec=drown man). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tajosto Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4453 days ago 54 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Czech | Message 18 of 60 15 October 2012 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@Cavesa:
Ox's eye makes more sense, somehow! Yes, it is "ox's", even though it does look strange. No, I haven't seen utopenec in the pub, but will keep my eyes out for it now. :-) Log: -Finished transforming my book2 Anki deck to audio questions. I now have it so that only the audio phrase/sentence is on the "front", and the "back" has the sentence written in both Czech and English. I don't know, maybe this is a really strange way to do things, but it's making the most sense for me right now. I also find that it requires much more of my attention to do Anki reviews because I really have to listen, and sometimes repeat the audio more than once, in order to know what the answer is. Before, with written questions, I could go through many of the cards without really paying full attention. -So now I'm looking for other sources of audio files, hopefully with only 1 or 2 sentences per audio file. While I do have plenty of textbook audio in dialogue form, I'm trying to avoid spending all the time necessary to chop those files up into shorter clips for Anki. I'm toying with the idea of getting a month's subscription to this site: http://www.pronunciator.com/English/subscribe.html Then I could grab the audio files, and use them for Anki. I've never heard of this site before, but it seems to have a good audio collection, so it might be worth the price for one month. -I visited Memrise today for the first time in half a year. The Czech lessons have expanded considerably, which is great. Unfortunately, most lessons don't have audio, so they won't work for me with my current audio focus. I may still use Memrise when I want to something different for a change. A few of the lessons are vocabulary specifically for learning childrens' songs, with links to the YouTube videos that actually include the words as part of the cartoon. Silly, cute, and helpful for learning a little Czech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN9_Vuki13M&list=HL135031427 1&feature=mh_lolz -Also on Memrise, I found a link to a list of the most frequently used Czech words (in subtitles): http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Cze ch_wordlist Could be useful to create or look for sentences (with audio!) using these words... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5145 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 19 of 60 15 October 2012 at 5:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hi Mahasiswa I agree with you about "Chcete mluvit česky" and also "Chcete ještě lépe mluvit česky", that's why I used them and still use the second one as a reference. I also love how thorough they are. However most (all the ones I know in the flesh) English speakers I know don't like them and prefer "Step by step". 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tajosto Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4453 days ago 54 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Czech | Message 20 of 60 20 October 2012 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm traveling right now, spending a lot of time with friends, so not much Czech time. Some passive
listening from Czech conversations around, some audio listening. Today, an hour and a half of Anki review, book2 studying, and creating new Anki cards. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tajosto Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4453 days ago 54 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Czech | Message 21 of 60 07 November 2012 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow, I just discovered http://bab.la/ today! This is the most useful EN-CZ online dictionary I've come
across so far. I'm in love. :-) I've also revisited _Chcete mluvit česky_ recently and like it quite a lot. I thought I'd checked it out before, but who knows? So I've started working through that textbook, and am still using book2 for audio phrases that I add to my Anki deck. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tajosto Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4453 days ago 54 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Czech | Message 22 of 60 08 December 2012 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been in a real slump with my Czech learning. I am (unwillingly) living in a little English-speaking
bubble in the Czech countryside, so I very irregularly even need to use any of the Czech I learn. Consequently, on those rare occasions that someone does speak to me in Czech, my brain freezes and I go completely blank! :-\ So, I've been feeling enormously frustrated and cranky about the whole situation. I recently took an online placement test (http://www.jc-correct.com/czech-placement-test) and received a recommendation to take intermediate-level classes. However, I know that I am nowhere near a real intermediate level with listening and speaking, which is what matters to me. So this test underscored the necessity for me to focus only on materials with audio and stay away from silent reading materials. Obviously, it's time for me to find an online language exchange partner!!! Also, I just joined the TAC 2013, on the Czechoslovak Team, so I am hoping that will give me some motivation. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5145 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 23 of 60 09 December 2012 at 1:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Where in the Czech countryside do you live?
Welcome to the Czechoslovak team! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Majka Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic kofoholici.wordpress Joined 4453 days ago 307 posts - 755 votes Speaks: Czech*, German, English Studies: French Studies: Russian | Message 24 of 60 09 December 2012 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Tajosto,
if you want somebody who would correct your writing or answer your questions, I could do it for you. Unfortunately, I don't have a reasonable internet connection for language exchange in audio, otherwise I would offer as well. You might be lucky to find local exchange partner, in person - people looking to learn English really well are plenty here. Where exactly do you live? A countryside has its advantages sometimes - the community is often close knit, and even if you probably will stay "náplava" (the outsider, so to say) for next few generations, the people would include you given a half of a chance. It is very easy to slip in the English-speaking bubble, but there are few ways how to get out of it. Besides the obvious meet in a pub, another one worth looking into is a church - even I as an atheist find it good way to find local contacts, to find activities to participate and to volunteer. Another one would be local school or library or "mothers' center" (mateřské centrum) if there is any. The local activities tend to circle around these... Good luck, Majka 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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