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Lenka

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Hi! I come from Czech Republic, and by the way I have lived here all my life. I would like to offer you my language - I mean if you want to ask something connected with Czech language or Czech habits, you can ask me. I will tell you. I don´t expect there will be someone who would like to know something about Czech, but I would love to talk to someone about our language.

By the way, I am sorry for my English - I know it isn´t just good. I know I need to improve it... :(
 

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I have many Czech students and spent a lovely holiday in the Czech Republic and thought it was a beautiful country. I can't think of a city I have enjoyed more than Prague. I also like your cheese, especially a smoked one I bought, and enjoyed the beer (Gambrinus) and the Becherovka. ;-)
 

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Really? I thought almost nobody knows Czech Republic... I am glad you liked it!
 

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It's one of the more popular destinations for the British nowadays.;-)
 

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Yes, it is quite understandable (does word understandable exist at all?), because we have wery cheap everything for foreigners. But it isn't fair! :) Do you know how stupid it is to go for example United Kingdom (or even London) and have everything even 5 (or more?) times more expensive. It is terrible! You can't buy everything you want, even the food is a little expensive to you. I perhaps talk big, but it is at least partly true.

And, yes, our cheese is good. And our beer? I wonder you drank just Gambrinus, I think Pilsner Urquel is much more known and probably better!
 
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ja myslim ze Gambrinus je nejlepsi pivo v Czesky Republicky. Ja jsem bydlel tam minuleho rok a jsem mel hodne dobre cas, ale jsem byl v malo miesto - bahuzel.

doufam vy vite ze hodne lidi radi czech. to je moc zimavy...
 

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Skakig said:
ja myslim ze Gambrinus je nejlepsi pivo v Czesky Republicky. Ja jsem bydlel tam minuleho rok a jsem mel hodne dobre cas, ale jsem byl v malo miesto - bahuzel.

doufam vy vite ze hodne lidi radi czech. to je moc zimavy...

I can't believe my eyes! Your Czech is quiet (as for foreigner) good! Já polsky nerozumím ani slovo. Možná jen pár, ale skládat celé věty... Do you understand my Czech? I hope you do. Máš tam sice pár chyb, ale je to pochopitelný. Akorát by mě zajímalo, co znamená to tvoje slovo "zimavy". Mát to znamenat "zajímavý"? Interesting?

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I didn't only drink Gambrinus, but that was the one I enjoyed most. I can get Pilsner Urquel in my local shop ghere.;-)
 

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SKAKIG & LENKA

I kinda understand you both as well! :D
 

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Tanja said:
SKAKIG & LENKA

I kinda understand you both as well! :D

Yes, you can understand us speaking Czech? Try to say something in your language - I am curious if I will understand it too.

Lenka
 

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Lenka said:
Tanja said:
SKAKIG & LENKA

I kinda understand you both as well! :D

Yes, you can understand us speaking Czech? Try to say something in your language - I am curious if I will understand it too.

Lenka

Ja dumayu chto slavyanskiye yazyki tak pohozhi chto my vpolne mozhem ponimat' drug druga, no vot govorit' - uvy...mne ne pod silu skazat' chto-nibud' po-cheshski :D
Did you get it, I wonder? :)
 

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Something like: I think of slavian languages (are?) so similar that we can (simply?) (I don't really know these words..) a mate a mate (in Czech: dtuh druha) (?).... govoriť-speak (talk) =mluvit.
I don't understand it very much. po cheshki is probably "in Czech". Chto = who? mne = to me? Pod silu = not a big force? I mean it isn't hard...
What do the sentences actualy mean?

Lenka
 

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Lenka said:
Something like: I think of slavian languages (are?) so similar that we can (simply?) (I don't really know these words..) a mate a mate (in Czech: dtuh druha) (?).... govoriť-speak (talk) =mluvit.
I don't understand it very much. po cheshki is probably "in Czech". Chto = who? mne = to me? Pod silu = not a big force? I mean it isn't hard...
What do the sentences actualy mean?

Lenka

Wow!
It really works! :lol:

Ponimat' = understand
chto = what
chto-nibud' = something
mne ne pod silu = i can't (ya ne mogu)

Cool! 8) :lol:
 

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Tanja said:
Lenka said:
Something like: I think of slavian languages (are?) so similar that we can (simply?) (I don't really know these words..) a mate a mate (in Czech: dtuh druha) (?).... govoriť-speak (talk) =mluvit.
I don't understand it very much. po cheshki is probably "in Czech". Chto = who? mne = to me? Pod silu = not a big force? I mean it isn't hard...
What do the sentences actualy mean?

Lenka

Wow!
It really works! :lol:

Ponimat' = understand
chto = what
chto-nibud' = something
mne ne pod silu = i can't (ya ne mogu)

Cool! 8) :lol:


It's really very similar! We say "já nemohu" for "ya ne mogu". that's great! i could learn Estonian... :lol:

Lenka
 

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Lenka said:
It's really very similar! We say "já nemohu" for "ya ne mogu". that's great! i could learn Estonian... :lol:

Lenka

Actually, it wasn't Estonian. :lol: I do live in Estonia but I'm Russian - that's why we can understand each other.
But it's up to you, if you want to start learning Estonian :lol:

PS: As I know Prague is wonderful. I dream about spending Christmas there. I hope I'll visit it someday. You are SOooo lucky you live there... :wink: :D
 

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Tanja said:
Lenka said:
It's really very similar! We say "já nemohu" for "ya ne mogu". that's great! i could learn Estonian... :lol:

Lenka

Actually, it wasn't Estonian. :lol: I do live in Estonia but I'm Russian - that's why we can understand each other.
But it's up to you, if you want to start learning Estonian :lol:

PS: As I know Prague is wonderful. I dream about spending Christmas there. I hope I'll visit it someday. You are SOooo lucky you live there... :wink: :D

Wow! Do you really think it is so good to live in CZ? I like it here, but perhaps there are richer and nicer countries... And, I don't live in Prague. But I do like Prague too.
As to Estonian, it was just a joke... But it perhaps isn't so bad idea... :D
The only languages I can (try to) speak is English and German (actually I learn german only two years). I would like to try studying French, but I haven't got many possibilities in the place where I live. Actually I'm 16... I hope you don't mind that you have been writing to such a young girl...

Lenka
 

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Lenka said:
Actually I'm 16... I hope you don't mind that you have been writing to such a young girl...

Lenka

Don't even think about such things - it doesn't matter at all :D


I also want to try studying French this year :wink: :lol:
 

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Tanja said:
Lenka said:
Actually I'm 16... I hope you don't mind that you have been writing to such a young girl...

Lenka

Don't even think about such things - it doesn't matter at all :D


I also want to try studying French this year :wink: :lol:

You are good... Can you speak Estonian? Can you tell me some words (or sentences)?

Lenka
 

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Lenka said:
You are good... Can you speak Estonian? Can you tell me some words (or sentences)?

Lenka

Mmmm... I even don't know what to tell... Maybe if you wrote something that interests you, I would translate it into Estonian? Deal? :D
 
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