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France - Francie 
Germany - Německo 
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Italy - Itálie
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Lithuania - Litva
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Slovakia - Slovensko
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Facts about czech names & surnames

It's interesting that the majority of female surnames mostly ends with -ová.

I mean, we do not have Mr. Jackson and Mrs. Jackson, but Mr. Jackson and Mrs. Jacksonová

Here is comparios of female and male surnames:

Female------------------------------Male

Tučková----------------------------Tuček

Kloučková-------------------------Klouček

Horáková--------------------------Horák

Nováková-------------------------Novák

Zelenková-------------------------Zelenka

Skákalová-------------------------Skákal

Another interesting fact is that the woman always gets after married surname from her husband. When she is previously named Marie Horáková and her husband Tomáš Novák, her name is Marie Nováková now.

A last point of interest is that if you are not married - wife's name is Nováková and her boyfriend is Horák, your child will always get surname after his/her father, not mother.

Czech words from other languages: Non-Czech words

Hello dear students of the Czech language,

I am bringing you another article with words that hasn't czech origin, but you can use them in Czech language..

Democracy - Demokracie

Archeology - Archeologie

Republic - Republika

Student - Student

Cycle - Cyklus

Musical terms (We don't translate them)

Moderato

Legato

Adagio

Piano

Sports terms (We also don't translate them)

Skateboard

Snowboard

Basketball

Time-Out

Baseball

Czech language: Soft (i) and hard (y)

Ahoj všichni, jak se máte?

Today I am going to show you just a few examples when you need to use soft or hard iy in the verbs in the past tense. Do not worry, it's really simple and easy to understand.

Ženy CHODILY do obchodu nakupovat oblečení - Women went to the store to buy clothes

Muži ZPÍVALI národní hymnu - Men sang the national anthem

Ženy vařily - Muži vařili

Ženy se sprchovaly - Muži se sprchovali

Ženy něco potřebovaly - Muži něco potřebovali

Ženy uklízely - Muži uklízeli

Note that -the woman- is always with hard y (or in Czech we call this letter hard y)

Conversely, men have at the end of the verb always soft i

Do you know how to easily remember these rules? It sounds funny, but it can help you through this very simply derive :)

How are the women? Hard! (Meant strong)

How are men? Soft! (Meant not strong)

Learn Czech language with TV!

Ahoj, hello, hallo, привет!

It's been quite a long time since I have not written any new article. I wonder every day how to efficient and faster learn a foreign language. I know it's an old thing, but the TV is the best teacher, you know. There are not so much televisions that you can watch for free on the internet, so I am bringing you some useful links. I hope that you will appreciate it and if you have any question, contact me on my email or comment this article.

Naviděnou! :)

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