The truth about living in the Czech Republic | An American's point of view
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2020
- The truth about living in the Czech Republic | An American's point of view
American reacts to life in the Czech Republic.
A U.S. foreigner's view on living in the Czech Republic (Czech food, culture, lifestyle, language, first impressions, etc.) Living in the Czech Republic vs living in the USA.
Comment below things you love about life in the Czech Republic (Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň, Liberec, Olomouc, Ústí nad Labem, Hradec Králové, České Budějovice, Pardubice, etc.)!
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About the ,,yellow flowers". They look beautiful, but behind these fields is actually much more controversy than expected.
This guy looks like he would be good at chess.
Fun fact Slovak is so simmular that it is mutually understandable. We have all kinds of movies and music etc in Czech. When games come here and are translated, they have Czech Subs.
Lost of Czechs and Slovaks still see each others as brothers/sisters.
100% truth
The pretty yellow flowers are actually quite horrible for the nature.
The foam is for isolation so in winter the heat wouldn’t escape out
I laughed really hard when he talked about it xD
Just to clarify with the history - for those watching - CZ is a country that historically existed as "Lands of the Czech Crown", a land and later kingdom that was independent or semi-independent for centuries, since the 7th century, actually. It was just the time between 1620s and 1910s (Before 1620s, Prague was for a long time capitol city of the Holy Roman Empire) when the Austrian Empire tried to integrate it so hard it pretty much backfired and Czechs pushed for independence instead.
" Austrian Empire tried to integrate it so hard it pretty much backfired and Czechs pushed for independence instead." Hah. Learn your history. People were pretty happy in Austro-Hungarian Empire and they didn't mind integrating until the end of 19th century when Nationalism went popular in Europe.
Dumplings are actually a main dish, not a dessert for most people. We have several sweet dishes.
Choosing your career during high school is not that detrimental to your future career as it may sound from his description. I chose one, went to university and studied something totally different and now I do neither of those :)
Panel houses have been actually invented in Czechia (I think in the fifties) and the very first panel house ever built still stands today.
It was an experiment nobody have ever expected to succeed. Engineers and architects were making fun of the project, predicting it to fall like house of cards. However, after the first one was built - fast, modular and convenient, and didn't fall, the manufacturing have exploded. For following forty years these buildings have become the defining piece of communism. Housing built quick, affordable, ready to take in masses. It was the go-to design for every town in need of housing. And need there was. Communists have been dead locked on growing the population and showing the west how it's done. And so thousands upon thousands of these grey atrocities have been built.
Paradoxically, we are in need of similar fast, cheap housing today, but there was no successor to the original project. With the fall of communism, panel house have become a thing of the past.
The DIY nature of Czechs is also a legacy of communism. During the times of communism, there was shortage of literally everything. And if you needed something, you had to either make it, or use a series of contacts to get what you want through theft. More or less it worked so that you'd steal something at the factory where you work. That you will take home, and if you were lucky, you'd exchange it directly with a friend working in different factory or a warehouse for the thing you wanted. If not, your friend will exchange that thing further for other things and the chain will continue until a desired object was found and obtained.
Also ,,domečky" (I'd call them more like řadové domy)and paneláky are usually in bigger cities. But in villages or smaller towns there are also just normal houses. And each house is different size and colore because they were build invidually .
The bathrooms also struck me in the US. You have less privacy as the stalls are partially see-through as far as your feet are concerned! :-)
It's very accurate what you say and it's nice of you that you "forgot" to mention the negative about us :) You are a super knowledgable and nice person. Great video :)
Svíčková is tenderloin (beef), not pork. And the sauce is with cream. The full name of the food is Svíčková na smetaně = "tenderloin on cream".
Fact about czech is that we love to teach people to call svíčková candle soup
Kingdom of Bohemia (Czech Kingdom) existed ever since 1198 (King Ottokar I) - 1918
...made of the concrete PANELS :) That's a reason for why we do call them PANELÁKY .)
The building you mention as a museum - The National Monument in Prague - was actually built as a burial / memorial place for WW1 "legionnaires", who fought for independent Czechoslovakia and against the Central Powers (and the russian communists, too).
2:46 Jo... Řepka je všude
Congratulations, you named every czech stereotype haha
This guy really knows :D
Marlenka is actually traditional armenian desert. CEO Nshan Avetisjan actually emigrated from there to Czech Rep and made a big business off it.
well actually school system was invented by one czech, name Jan Ámos Komenský in middle of 17th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Amos_Comenius
Svíčková - No pork, or beef(cow)😉And ...But you are good!Respect from Czech Republic
Halušky is typical food for Slovakia but yeah we love it too 😊
Dude, this place sounds so cool!
To be exact, the cake is called "Medovník". The company, tgat mostly distributes it is called "Marlenka"
One more thing. The communist regime fallen in 1989. We splt with slovaks in 1993. In 1991 the USSR split
Bryndzové halušky are gnocchies with sheep cheese, bacon, also with special slovakian klobása.
Halušky themself could be fixed with sauerkraut and lard, too. Also by poppy seed (sweet way), tvaroh, etc.
Hey man, thank you!
marlenka is honey cake
Its not even called Marlenka
Fruit dumplings was served with quark (tvaroh).
Everything in this video is so true, I am impressed! Very good point about why Czechs don't trust organizations and unions because of our sad history - unfortunately, many polititians are now using this distrust for their own profit, as it's very easy to convince people that some current organizations - like the EU - again just want to use us, and let us down...
Svíčová is not pork neither whipped cream.
It's beef roast. Gravy itself contains cream.
ok, there should be no pork in Svíčková, it's a beef.
svickova is made with beef served with dumplings and candle sauce
Pond locks we call panelak as is buid from big panels
He said few things wrong for example: those sweet dumplings are actually the main dish not dessert at all🤷🏼♀️. But that is okay.
Karp meat itself is delicious, regardless of bones.
Im from CR!
Love
The most awkward thing in CZ are beds, even Queen size bed has two separate mattresses but there are many goods things about CZ other than this....
Nice video in view of facts :-) but why technical quality is like 2012. :-|
Marlenka is actually an old Armenian dessert.
Marlenka is in fact armenian recepie.
In Svickova is Beef meat not Pork.hehehe
Am I the only Czech here?
Svickova does not have pork, that is a big NO NO... it supposed to have sirloin beef or filet mignon.
Comunists didn't "come" in 1948. Comunists were elected. Not that it matters, since Czechoslovakia would be occupied by soviets anyway.
"It'a very westernized" I suppose big parts of bohemia could be, but I don't know about moravia and silesia
*Thank you for using Czech Republic 🇨🇿 and not Czechia ❤️❤️❤️❤️*
Isn't it Czechia?
Češi ukažte se xD
Bro I’m suspicious now
U meant sheep cheese not goat one..with Halusky 🐑🐑🐑
They go around whipping the women then give them candy 🍬???
Two maybe 3 different letters... Thats also a way to call a 42 letter alphabet lol