You're videos are awesome. I'm 51 now and been to Prague loads of times, I've noticed that most people older than me can't speak english but lots of people young enough to be my kids do. I've also noticed how happy people are if you just learnt please and thankyou. Manners go a long way in any language I think.
Almost nobody aged 40+ can not speak english, because they have been raised by communism and as you know they hated USA, so people were taught only German or Russian
@@mrroyale5420 Ordinary people did not hate USA, politics did and even that is not 100% true, they were just doing their propaganda, but when coca-cola allowed making coca-cola in Czechoslovakia, commies were ok with that because $ doesn't smell.
I was in Prague for 3 days in July 2019. Having arrived there after being in Russia for 2 weeks, it was surprising to see how English is spoken everywhere. In 3 days I had no problems whatsoever. The only Czech word I used in 3 days was dekui. Having said that, as English speakers we can become very complacent in such circumstances. I will be in Prague again in FEB 2020. This time to go thru a TEFL course and hopefully start teaching English. But today is my 3rd day on a Czech language course online. I am loving it.
Well i think its easy to move around in Czech even if you know only English because its norm here to know English. Though some middle-aged (?) adult may not know how to speak English so I think when you are asking on street for direction its easier to ask younger people because all of the people who is studying is learning English. Of course in place like restauration its a different story
Great Video. I was a Czech Linguist in the Army and would love the opportunity to move to Praha. My wife can work anywhere but I would need a job. Do you have any video's on that subject?
Very helpful - děkuji mnohokrát, Paul! I'm an International Law & Human Rights student here in Denver, Colorado, USA, and am planning on doing a study abroad semester at the Univerzita Karlova in the fall of this year (2019). I'm starting to learn Czech in preparation for it and it doesn't seem super difficult for me as I already speak Russian (and Spanish), but I'm enjoying it immensely. It's a great language. I visited Praha for about 3 days around New Years three years ago and absolutely fell in love with the city. Super excited about going back and just wanted to thank you for your video and to say hello! I hope to bring my cat, Ollie, as well. Scratch your awesome cat behind the ear for me :D
@@MyYTwatcher That's not really true, first thing - Russian accent is very weird and even when word can be actually similar, Czech person can't hear that word hiden in all that Russian accent and second - there is plenty of false friends so you can think you understand, but you understand shit mostly. :-D Also many basic words are completely different in Russian and young people have no any experiences with Russian, older people can understand only because they had Russian at school. Myth that all slavic speakers must understand Russian was created by national revivalists in 19th century and later supported by communists. When you have forced Russian at schools then it can look like Czech person can communicate with Russian, but can we still communicate with them when Russian is not mandatory at schools another 30 years? If you are Czech you can try it, I am giving you 2 sentences, max 3 and you both turn to English. :-D
@@Pidalin So it was only an accident that I understoond quite a lot of russian conversation for those several years I spent with my russian friends without any formal knowledge of their language.
Hey! How is your life in Brno? I'm thinking to move there as well. ¿está difícil conseguir un buen trabajo? Si hablas castellano. Saludos desde Canadá!
Paul Colto Wow, thanks so much for making this! I am planning on moving to Prague within the next 6 months, if all goes according to plan. I am bilingual and speak English and Russian-the latter is my native tongue, but I grew up in and live in the US, so my English is a bit better. I was wondering to what extent Russian will help me as someone new in Prague? Is it something that maybe I should not highlight/bring up at first, and just try to speak only in English and Czech after moving there initially (due to the history, and also because of any West vs. East / English vs Russian notions that might exist)? Thanks again!
@@leonchal Older generation does not speak english, but they all learned russian. So it may help you unexpectedly. When you start learning czech, you realise, it is very similar, so it will be faster for you. However, you may have the russian accent. That one is associated with foreign workers hired at minimum wage for manual labour. If you are worried because of 1968 invasion and ensuing occupation - we do not forget, we do not forgive, but we know common russian people had no say in that. Plus kicking out nazis without bombing us back to midleage counts as a big plus.
Hello paul, thanks for your videos are very valuable to me. I'm thinking of moving to Prague. BUT I'm terrified. I studied chemistry and engineering and I've an intermediate english. I was looking for, but I didn't find any offers on the web for me. I don't know if that kind of work is impossible if I don't know Czech. I like the food industry. I hope you can help me. Thanks in advace.
Hey Marianella, thank you for you comment and I'm glad you find the videos useful :) It's good that you are doing research to see if working and living here is right for you. With intermediate English it obviously won't be possible for you to work as an English teacher here. If you are truly 'terrified' then I would recommend perhaps that you wait until you have a more positive feeling about a move to a new country because it is a VERY big change with lots of difficult moments along the way although ultimately if it is successful it can be as enriching and fulfilling a change as any other out there in my opinion. I would recommend you continue doing research into job opportunities and talking with people close to you if moving to a new country is the right thing for you at this moment. Lots of best wishes from Prague, PC
I would love to hear your original music any day over the same background music you use in this video...Even if you just make something up, I’m sure it’s much better than this background music. Your videos are very informative and helpful,, thank you..
Thank you for the comment! I will try to experiment with my own music on a future video for sure! Have you downloaded some of my music? You can find that here theandroidangel.bandcamp.com or here freeswim.bandcamp.com and it's all on Spotify and Apple Music too :) Thanks again for your comment! PC
03:12 dont exagerrate - there some easy aspects - czech is a phonetic language, you can read anything after learning few pronounciation rules. Czech language also has quite predictable word prefixes- like vchod, východ (vs entrance/exit), příchod/odchod (arrival/departure), nadchod/podchod (overpass/underpass). In English or French you have just to learn six unique words. There are some more prefixes that can extend your vocabulary a lot and it is very easy to remember. I have to admit that other aspects are more confusing - word declension, word order in sentence and the negative . all slavic languages use mandatory double negative or even triple negative (single negative is a huge mistake and is very confusing for native speakers). Example of triple negative would be like "I never did not do that to nobody"
I also don't understand that about second most difficult language in the world, it's total nonsense. How can someone from western world say that? They think learn all African or Asian langauges is easier than Czech? That's nonsense, only fact that Czech has latin alphabet should moves that language between languages which are ok to learn, not easy, but the hardest? That's nonsense. Try Chinese, Korean, Japanese, milion dialects of Indian langauge or languages of native americans.....how can someone say Czech is second harderst, I still don't understand that. It's indoeuropean langauge, it can't be harder for English speaking person than Chinese.
Hello Paul I love your videos you are such great help , thank god for you !!! I e question I’m thinking of moving to Prague .. i can say that English and Spanish are my two mother languages .. is there any opportunity for me to find a decent job there , even though I know zero Czech launguage .. ??? thanks Paul !!! Ps my back ground is customer service , reception and food services (server )
Czech is really easy to understand But when you wanna write a letter.. oh boy We have to know the words gender by using ten ta to and the word fitting most means that its that- the non-binary one has město kuře moře stavení and we then say like car without a car (auto bez auta) and then say city without a city (město bez města) and all that
It always amazes me how differently people see this country. As a Czech, born and raised in Prague, I couldn't ever think of a decent reason why would anyone want to willingly move here. To me and many of my fellow Czechs, "a dog died" (a Czech saying for some place being a complete sh*thole, it's "tady chcíp pes" in Czech) here. At some point, it's true - our language isn't massively spread all over the world, our trade isn't huge as well, most of the world doesn't even know where this country is and people from the west always think that we're Russians. Personally, I can't wait to move abroad after a graduate university, as I feel like this country has nothing to offer. But to pull on a better note - if nothing else, this country is beautiful and Prague is absolutely mesmerizing. Hodně štěstí!
Are you kidding? I visited Prague in July 2019 because it was recommended as a top 5 beautiful European city to visit. In 3 days I fell in love with the city and its people. So now I am moving to Prague in FEB 2020 to start a TEFL course and hopefully teach English in Czechia. If all goes well I might live in Czechia for a couple of years. Of course I do recommend to everyone to travel abroad and experience other countries, that goes without saying.
People see this country in different ways because everyone is different. I know it's shocking and almost unbelievable but yet it's true. Now go and move out. You need it. And maybe you will move back later as you'll find out more information about the world and grow up. Cheers mate.
A lot of young people in Central Europe seem to have this attitude that their country is terrible, Polish people in particular always complain about how bad things are. I often felt guilty as a relatively wealthy person from the West taking advantage of the unbelievably cheap prices in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic years ago. If things were so cheap then the local people must have been living on less than minimum wage in Western Europe or North America.
Yes, we are shithole, but not such shitholish shithole as you think, you probably haven't seen real shithole. Czech Republic has advantage in peace and relatively acceptable standard of living, we have no such bad lives as we sometimes think. People who are still at schools sometimes think they have to immediately escape from here after school and then they return and say life here is actually better. They know nothing before they start traveling or working in different country. You think they are waiting for you everywhere with great salary, 2 cars, house and pretty wife like in American movies? Look on Ukrainian or Romanian workers here, how they live. You probably end same in other country.
You're videos are awesome. I'm 51 now and been to Prague loads of times, I've noticed that most people older than me can't speak english but lots of people young enough to be my kids do. I've also noticed how happy people are if you just learnt please and thankyou. Manners go a long way in any language I think.
Almost nobody aged 40+ can not speak english, because they have been raised by communism and as you know they hated USA, so people were taught only German or Russian
@@mrroyale5420 Ordinary people did not hate USA, politics did and even that is not 100% true, they were just doing their propaganda, but when coca-cola allowed making coca-cola in Czechoslovakia, commies were ok with that because $ doesn't smell.
wonderful video a dekuji mockrat for giving this splendid marvelous language some credit, loved this vid
I was in Prague for 3 days in July 2019. Having arrived there after being in Russia for 2 weeks, it was surprising to see how English is spoken everywhere. In 3 days I had no problems whatsoever. The only Czech word I used in 3 days was dekui.
Having said that, as English speakers we can become very complacent in such circumstances. I will be in Prague again in FEB 2020. This time to go thru a TEFL course and hopefully start teaching English. But today is my 3rd day on a Czech language course online. I am loving it.
Good luck on your journey to learning Czech and with your TEFL course! PC
Dekui? I think your trying to say děkuji aka thank you
This is great encouragement to learn Czech
I'm moving to Prague in about 3-4 months to take the CELTA course and work there if I could find a job, thanks for the videos they helped alot
Great, thanks a lot, and good luck with your CELTA and life in Prague!
Well i think its easy to move around in Czech even if you know only English because its norm here to know English. Though some middle-aged (?) adult may not know how to speak English so I think when you are asking on street for direction its easier to ask younger people because all of the people who is studying is learning English. Of course in place like restauration its a different story
Great Video. I was a Czech Linguist in the Army and would love the opportunity to move to Praha. My wife can work anywhere but I would need a job. Do you have any video's on that subject?
Look at .... ua-cam.com/channels/mBGFgolVVzfdxghcMunigQ.html or ua-cam.com/channels/eV4rGWFAevPTQw4jN2hLNA.html .
Hello. Thank you for ur useful information
Very helpful - děkuji mnohokrát, Paul! I'm an International Law & Human Rights student here in Denver, Colorado, USA, and am planning on doing a study abroad semester at the Univerzita Karlova in the fall of this year (2019). I'm starting to learn Czech in preparation for it and it doesn't seem super difficult for me as I already speak Russian (and Spanish), but I'm enjoying it immensely. It's a great language. I visited Praha for about 3 days around New Years three years ago and absolutely fell in love with the city. Super excited about going back and just wanted to thank you for your video and to say hello! I hope to bring my cat, Ollie, as well. Scratch your awesome cat behind the ear for me :D
Hey Joe, wonderful to hear, thank so much for your comment, and all the best for your adventure! PC
Wish you good luck because Karlova univerzita is one of the most difficult schools what we have in Prague
If you speak Russian than Czech shouldnt be hard for you. With a little training you should be able to understand 20-30 % of the conversation.
@@MyYTwatcher That's not really true, first thing - Russian accent is very weird and even when word can be actually similar, Czech person can't hear that word hiden in all that Russian accent and second - there is plenty of false friends so you can think you understand, but you understand shit mostly. :-D Also many basic words are completely different in Russian and young people have no any experiences with Russian, older people can understand only because they had Russian at school. Myth that all slavic speakers must understand Russian was created by national revivalists in 19th century and later supported by communists. When you have forced Russian at schools then it can look like Czech person can communicate with Russian, but can we still communicate with them when Russian is not mandatory at schools another 30 years? If you are Czech you can try it, I am giving you 2 sentences, max 3 and you both turn to English. :-D
@@Pidalin So it was only an accident that I understoond quite a lot of russian conversation for those several years I spent with my russian friends without any formal knowledge of their language.
Amazing video !
Jaroslav Skrčený Děkuju Jaroslave! PC
I'm moving to Brno soon and I'm terrified/excited
O Lozada Brno is an absolutely fantastic city - you will love it :) will you be teaching??
Who knows! hahaha I'm a freelancer but I used to teach spanish, so maybe... hehe
Good luck!
Hey! How is your life in Brno?
I'm thinking to move there as well.
¿está difícil conseguir un buen trabajo? Si hablas castellano. Saludos desde Canadá!
ANY MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT MOVING TO PRAGUE OR LIFE IN PRAGUE AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN GENERAL?
Paul Colto Wow, thanks so much for making this!
I am planning on moving to Prague within the next 6 months, if all goes according to plan. I am bilingual and speak English and Russian-the latter is my native tongue, but I grew up in and live in the US, so my English is a bit better. I was wondering to what extent Russian will help me as someone new in Prague? Is it something that maybe I should not highlight/bring up at first, and just try to speak only in English and Czech after moving there initially (due to the history, and also because of any West vs. East / English vs Russian notions that might exist)?
Thanks again!
@@leonchal Older generation does not speak english, but they all learned russian. So it may help you unexpectedly. When you start learning czech, you realise, it is very similar, so it will be faster for you.
However, you may have the russian accent. That one is associated with foreign workers hired at minimum wage for manual labour.
If you are worried because of 1968 invasion and ensuing occupation - we do not forget, we do not forgive, but we know common russian people had no say in that. Plus kicking out nazis without bombing us back to midleage counts as a big plus.
Original word for pistol was píšťala, it flyied around world and returned to Czech language as pistole. :-)
Ondrej thank you very much for the clarification and correction! And thank you for watching :) PC
I forgot píšťala means whistle today. ;-)
Ondřej Matějka 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Hello paul, thanks for your videos are very valuable to me. I'm thinking of moving to Prague. BUT I'm terrified. I studied chemistry and engineering and I've an intermediate english. I was looking for, but I didn't find any offers on the web for me. I don't know if that kind of work is impossible if I don't know Czech. I like the food industry.
I hope you can help me.
Thanks in advace.
Hey Marianella, thank you for you comment and I'm glad you find the videos useful :) It's good that you are doing research to see if working and living here is right for you. With intermediate English it obviously won't be possible for you to work as an English teacher here. If you are truly 'terrified' then I would recommend perhaps that you wait until you have a more positive feeling about a move to a new country because it is a VERY big change with lots of difficult moments along the way although ultimately if it is successful it can be as enriching and fulfilling a change as any other out there in my opinion. I would recommend you continue doing research into job opportunities and talking with people close to you if moving to a new country is the right thing for you at this moment. Lots of best wishes from Prague, PC
Meow, where from is your cat? Is local or from abroad? So I wwould like to know if he meow mewo or mňau mňau :D
He is Czech so mnau mnau! Thank you for the comment! PC
3:36 word "robot" is Czech word... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
I would love to hear your original music any day over the same background music you use in this video...Even if you just make something up, I’m sure it’s much better than this background music. Your videos are very informative and helpful,, thank you..
Thank you for the comment! I will try to experiment with my own music on a future video for sure! Have you downloaded some of my music? You can find that here theandroidangel.bandcamp.com or here freeswim.bandcamp.com and it's all on Spotify and Apple Music too :) Thanks again for your comment! PC
Hi paul i'm your big fan
Proč mám tohle video v doporučených?
asi máš jazykovou bariéru když přijedeš do prahy :-D
03:12 dont exagerrate - there some easy aspects - czech is a phonetic language, you can read anything after learning few pronounciation rules. Czech language also has quite predictable word prefixes- like vchod, východ (vs entrance/exit), příchod/odchod (arrival/departure), nadchod/podchod (overpass/underpass). In English or French you have just to learn six unique words. There are some more prefixes that can extend your vocabulary a lot and it is very easy to remember.
I have to admit that other aspects are more confusing - word declension, word order in sentence and the negative . all slavic languages use mandatory double negative or even triple negative (single negative is a huge mistake and is very confusing for native speakers). Example of triple negative would be like "I never did not do that to nobody"
Agreed, the fact that Czech is phonetic is great. Thank you very much for your comment!
I also don't understand that about second most difficult language in the world, it's total nonsense. How can someone from western world say that? They think learn all African or Asian langauges is easier than Czech? That's nonsense, only fact that Czech has latin alphabet should moves that language between languages which are ok to learn, not easy, but the hardest? That's nonsense. Try Chinese, Korean, Japanese, milion dialects of Indian langauge or languages of native americans.....how can someone say Czech is second harderst, I still don't understand that. It's indoeuropean langauge, it can't be harder for English speaking person than Chinese.
@@Pidalin cool down - u are repeating yourself 500 times here, I think we get your point. Czech language IS very difficult to learn
Help me for job in czech republic
Na zdraví
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Hello Paul I love your videos you are such great help , thank god for you !!! I e question I’m thinking of moving to Prague .. i can say that English and Spanish are my two mother languages .. is there any opportunity for me to find a decent job there , even though I know zero Czech launguage .. ??? thanks Paul !!!
Ps my back ground is customer service , reception and food services (server )
Pěkné video. Jen dodám, robot je české slovo.
díky moc kamarádovi!
Czech is really easy to understand
But when you wanna write a letter.. oh boy
We have to know the words gender by using ten ta to and the word fitting most means that its that- the non-binary one has město kuře moře stavení and we then say like car without a car (auto bez auta) and then say city without a city (město bez města) and all that
beautiful cat ! but you don't explain whay czech language is so difficult..
Hi Olivier, thanks for your comment! 😺
It always amazes me how differently people see this country. As a Czech, born and raised in Prague, I couldn't ever think of a decent reason why would anyone want to willingly move here. To me and many of my fellow Czechs, "a dog died" (a Czech saying for some place being a complete sh*thole, it's "tady chcíp pes" in Czech) here. At some point, it's true - our language isn't massively spread all over the world, our trade isn't huge as well, most of the world doesn't even know where this country is and people from the west always think that we're Russians. Personally, I can't wait to move abroad after a graduate university, as I feel like this country has nothing to offer. But to pull on a better note - if nothing else, this country is beautiful and Prague is absolutely mesmerizing. Hodně štěstí!
Hey, thanks very much for your comment, it's a really interesting insight. Good luck with your studies and moving forward :) PC
Are you kidding? I visited Prague in July 2019 because it was recommended as a top 5 beautiful European city to visit. In 3 days I fell in love with the city and its people. So now I am moving to Prague in FEB 2020 to start a TEFL course and hopefully teach English in Czechia. If all goes well I might live in Czechia for a couple of years. Of course I do recommend to everyone to travel abroad and experience other countries, that goes without saying.
People see this country in different ways because everyone is different. I know it's shocking and almost unbelievable but yet it's true. Now go and move out. You need it. And maybe you will move back later as you'll find out more information about the world and grow up. Cheers mate.
A lot of young people in Central Europe seem to have this attitude that their country is terrible, Polish people in particular always complain about how bad things are. I often felt guilty as a relatively wealthy person from the West taking advantage of the unbelievably cheap prices in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic years ago. If things were so cheap then the local people must have been living on less than minimum wage in Western Europe or North America.
Yes, we are shithole, but not such shitholish shithole as you think, you probably haven't seen real shithole. Czech Republic has advantage in peace and relatively acceptable standard of living, we have no such bad lives as we sometimes think. People who are still at schools sometimes think they have to immediately escape from here after school and then they return and say life here is actually better. They know nothing before they start traveling or working in different country. You think they are waiting for you everywhere with great salary, 2 cars, house and pretty wife like in American movies? Look on Ukrainian or Romanian workers here, how they live. You probably end same in other country.
2nd most difficult in the world???....Difficult, yes. ....but I think Chinese and Japanese could easily be 1st and 2nd most difficult.
maybe that list with most difficult languages was created by Chinese person :-D
Navajo language rulez ....
Hodně štěstí
Tent styl videí je mega zábavnej😂