Learning Russian And Czech - How I Went About it
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2012
- Enjoyable but it takes time. Some useful URLs.
Russian
www.echo.msk.ru/interview/
Czech
www.radio.cz/cz
www.rozhlas.cz/ctenarskydenik/...
www.rozhlas.cz/toulky/vysila_p...
Here is the link to a conversation with my Russian tutor.
blog.thelinguist.com/2012/02/e...
Timelines:
0:10 Why started with the Russian language.
2:10 Two reasons why I started learning Russian.
2:40 Materials I used for learning Russian.
5:52 Coming across Ekho Moskvy.
7:31 Going after the Czech language.
8:13 Materials for learning Czech.
10:38 My Czech level now.
11:43 Get used to and enjoy the process of language learning.
12:53 Don’t get hung up when learn a language.
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My Blog: blog.thelinguist.com/
My Facebook Page: / lingosteve
My Twitter: / lingosteve
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Děkujeme vám za podpory zprávy. Nemám potíže čtení, ale moje schopnost mluvit a psát je stále omezená. Budu navšetvít Prahu na začátku října po dobu pěti dnů a doufáme, že budu mluvit hodně česky.
You are a real inspiration, Steve.
He definetely is
@FluentCzech Many thanks. This is a truly wonderful collection for a language learner, assuming the learner is interested in history!
I've just discovered your channel). There is so much energy in your speech. I just feel your satisfaction when you talk about learning and how much you enjoy this process) I'm Russian and also learn languages. My English is pretty much ok, but as you've said: it's a long road that never ends, so I'm always not satisfied with it, but I got used to this feeling. Now I'm struggling with German and have some success and going to start learning Serbian. Thanks for the video. It stimulates much)
I'm so happy you found Toulky. It's an amazing series. And there are about 900 episodes by now, so it's a lot of excellent content to listen to. Zdravim z Polska : )
Our brain is designed to learn patterns and to put labels on things. That is why we need to expose the brain to as much content in the target language as possible. It is from our listening and reading that we learn words, and pick up on patterns.
If you don't like the translations offered by google translate just choose another dictionary.
I found the Russian section wonderful, but once I reached a certain level tended to rely mostly on imported content. Which language are you learning?
Happy to see a people from abroad being interested in czech. They say czech is one of the hardest languages to learn, I wonder how you see it, now that you are learning it and obviously doing pretty good job at it?
Trying my best.
I started study czech today. And I am thinking easy
Finally got around to checking out the link at Radio Echo... absolutely superb!! Thanks.
Thanks. I have been lucky in terms of the content available for Russian and Czech.
Hi, Steve. First of all, I want to thank you for all your amazing work about l-learning. I've got immense encouragement from it all along my English journey (I'm Russian). One of my first book wich I read in English was your THE LINGUIST (and it was quite a revelation for me at the time). So thank you again.
You didn't mention the movie СОБАЧЬЕ СЕРДЦЕ (1988) in the video, and in case you haven't seen it, I sincerely recomend it to you. It's the rare case when a movie is even greater than a book.
I have been exploring Czech Radio for a year or so and every week I discover a lot of interesting things to listen to. Radio Prague is just a tip of the iceberg. Definitely the best national radio site I've ever seen.
You are amazing man, Steve!
Děkuji :-)
Ahoj Steve, nebudu se rozepisovat, jen bych Ti chtel napsat, ze s obdivem sleduji Tve nadseni pro jazyky a jeste o to vic, ze je mezi nimi i cestina :) Je skvele sledovat Tve pokroky. Pisu to naschval jen v cestine, protoze se mi libi tva laska v porozumeni cizich reci a textu a tak jsem Ti chtel v me rodne reci projevit respekt v tom co delas a jak rychle se ucis :) Drzim palce, at to jde tak skvele jako do ted. Mej se skvele! :)
Hi Mr. Kauffman! I really appreciate your videos, they've helped me a lot. I'm just beginning Russian and have created a channel to chronicle my progress (to keep myself motivated by putting myself out there). Your clear, logical style helps me from mysticising languages in my head. I've made sure to give you a shout out in my videos. Thanks much!
Thanks Steve! I'm hoping that within a coupe of months of listening and reading, I will get the hang of it and be comfortable with the language. HOPEFULLY. I know it takes people more or less time to really understand a foreign language, but Im trying very hard to stick with it. I've also seen that my memory and critical thinking have improved from studying a new language!
I am so happy, what you are willing to learn my language . Czech is complicated, but keep it up , you speak well. Well done sir !
I had a wonderful time in the Czech republic. I loved learning Czech and I will get back to it. Right now I’m focussed on other languages. But I sure enjoy my Czech and I still understand it when I hear it or when I read it. If I could sit down with you over a beer all my Czech would come back.
@FluentCzech Thanks. Something to look forward to in a few months!!
The difficulty of languages depends on which languages you already know. For me Russian was more difficult than Czech because it was my first Slavic language. The fact that Czech is written in the Latin alphabet also makes it easier.
Steve, your inspiration and perseverance makes me want to work harder on the languages I'm learning) I think you're doing a great job especially because Russian is considered to be a tough language compare to English or French for instance. Therefore, I totally agree with the idea that it should not be studied through grammar (It's kind of hard to explain, but from my standpoint, the words 'Russian' and 'grammar' for some reason don't go together quite well). Good luck with your studies!
@91Yon Hard to say. I start with newspapers and news items after a few months, sometimes earlier, while still doing the easy stuff.
@BrotherDown1 You got it. If you keep going and can enjoy the process, you cannot help but improve.
Hi, Steve. I know this video is 6 years old but are you still working on your Czech? It's nice to hear that you discovered my beloved Josef Škvorecký. He was an amazing person, based in Toronto. He even wrote one book in English. It's called Two murders in my double life. You may like it if you're interested in modern history as well.
LOVE this! Very inspiring!
Steve Kaufman you are a great man! Thank you!
@Sarmatique Yes, the quality of the narration is outstanding. However, I can only find episode 858 to 866 for free download at the site. Do you know how to find the rest of the series? I am able to download the sound file and copy the text of the ones that I have found. I am hoping to find the rest eventually. Any ideas?
I like your Czech!!! :-)
Thanks for letting me know.
@Sarmatique That is great,thanks. It is even better when I can get the transcript, but these do not seem to be available. Do you have any information about them?
I was just astounded by the sheer volume of the reading and listening material that you have accumulated, Steve! If you were to be admired for just one thing (which would be really unjust to do!), it could be time management. I'd like to mention something I touched upon before: the dilemma between going for the classics and the contemporary stuff. Classics are often nicer as far as the content, but the language is often difficult and unpracticable.
@lingosteve You are welcome. There is another series on Czech radio you might like. It has both audio and transcripts and explores curiosities of the Czech language - not from a boring grammatical perspective, but more from an historical and cultural perspective. It is a lot of fun, and you can find it by searching google for "Rubrika Čeština, jak ji neznáte"
If you liked Škvorecký, I recommend his Prima sezóna. It is about a young man's love of girls and music. And it's quite funny!
@FluentCzech Ahoj! I have found these but this series is a little esoteric for my level of Czech. Are there any sources of literature with lots of dialogue, also with transcript? I studied Anglické listy (Čapek) from rozhlas.cz, but there is no dialogue.Konec nylonového věku ( Škvorecký) is there too, a delight to listen to, but no transcript. I bought the book but there are many unknown words . A transcript to import into LingQ would help.In any case, many thanks for your help.
@koolibrii I don't know for sure but estimate that it is between 1-2 hours a day with some zero days and some days with more. This includes reading/LingQing, and just plain listening while doing other tasks.
@Sarmatique Have you found any modern literature with transcripts? This would really help with informal dialogues and the like.
With love - you're a Freak! 😝💖 how can you speak so many languages AND be an athlete AND look 20 years younger?
In Russian there are a lot of non-Slavic loanwords. But I found that most Slavic words in Russian have a cognate in Czech. However, often with a different (although related) meaning.
Stefan Reichenberger they are not loan words, they are Latin words, lots of then coming from Greek words which we all share on Europe because our civilization comes for the biggest part, from them, the Greeks and the Romans. Cyrillic alphabet too, but it has more Greek letters in it then the Latin alphabet. Just like German and English is filled with Latin words, and words coming from Greek. It was through communism that Russian was separated from Europe, and Russian people instructed in thinking not to be European. Of course, Russia is an euro Asian country, and is more then European. Russian music is "European", russian ballet is European. Russian painting is European. There's nothing wrong with that. Interests, politics, military interest, have created the separation. Science doesn't have loan words. Science, music, is not loan words. It's because all those people who created science music etc originally came from and later still all Europe communicated in Latin, because that's from where our civilization came. Until quite recently, all these people who had instruction, education, communicated and wrote in Latin. So they are not loan words they are a common heritage among European countries, and consequently American countries. There's much that we have all thanks to the Romans you know? Education in schools, roads, aquaduct, and much more. They didn't exist before. Not to speak of the beginning of democracy in Greece. Without them I think we had not even come to the idea yet. 👌 And by the way it was the conquering of the Romans by the barbarians of the North that threw the whole of Europe back in stone age. No wonder they don't like to talk about that. Up to today, they're in power. Oh no wait, there have been resurrections in the south of Europe in which its Greek Roman civilization resurrected, illuminated by the gospels of love. Schools and universities were created, when the ancient documents were found. Priests thought the children Greek and Latin, and those culture s
Thank God the ancient Greek artist even decided to resurrect in Italy in the Renaissance. Again the south. And those blessed Italians. !! So to make a long story short, From year + - 300, to year circa 1500. Let's say it took Europe a thousand years to be reborn again, and restart. Let's say that if it was not for the barbarian devastation of the Roman civilization - because those at least admired and adopted the Greek civilization - and we would have simply evolved together, it could be that we were 1000 years FURTHER! In technologie, ethics, religion, arts, philosophy. 😄 But forget the last paragraph which is my own logic consideration. The rest are facts. But so, whenever there culture, art, civilization, science it was all in Latin. No shame in that common heritage. Russian has lent words from English, but those are mostly the ones that Czech will also have having to do with computers, etc. , Maybe some modern technology. Best regards
Have the same impression with Croatian and Czech same words different meaning
For me starting out learning a language by reading fairly complicated literature and listening to audiobooks doesn't work. My level of comprehension is just too low - I get demotivated. Surely you found resources that were more accessible, movies or something?
Great video btw!
+Klaus Asbjørn Madsen I don't start out with complicated literature. Check out our library at LingQ. All audio with transcript for free download. Spend a few months with shorter easier content and soon you can move on to things of interest.
@koolibrii I wish I had more time to spend on it. I still have work, family, friends, sports etc. I am spending more now that I can read more easily and now that I have found all the resources at rozhlas.cz. It took me a while to reduce my Russian and focus more on Czech too.
Hello,
I found your video extremely interesting. I'm learning Russian and I wondered if you have any tips or exercises on how to pronounce the palatized letter 'r'. I can pronounce the regular rolled Russian 'r' but I have no idea what I'm doing when it's followed by the soft sign.
I enjoy watching your videos and look forward to seeing more.
Very inspiring video. I particularly like the moment when you show those Russian audiobooks - it seems that you really passionate about Russian classic literature. By the way - have you ever thought about learning Polish ?
Hi Steve, Thanks for your videos and the great work that you do to help people who learn new languages. I'm a native Russian speaker and I have a strong desire to ask you whether you have listened to all that audiobooks you've showed in this video and understood everything? I'm asking because I'm an English major student and I still have difficulties when listening to audiobooks as I don't know many words and can't distinguish them amongst others since the speed of the speech is usually very high. It's impossible to know every single word of the target language but this unawareness prevents me from full understanding.
I don't understand every word. I also try to find the text or transcript and read what I am listening to. I use LingQ to go through the texts and that helps a lot in increasing my vocabulary. That is what I am doing now for Ukrainian and it really works.
tteve, thanks for the video. Very helpful. I have a question about Radio Praha... Many times I have tried listening to Radio Praha but I can never get motivated to listen to their peculiar delivery How did you get used to the deadpan, superfast delivery?
you reminded me of my grandfather god bless your soul :)
@lingosteve Nearly all the episodes of toulky ceskou minulosti are available online, both audio and transcript. The easiest way to find them is to type "Toulky českou minulostí" into google. Follow the first link in the google results. Then, at the top of the page it takes you to, press the link "Odvysílané díly". There you will find 87 pages of episodes, with about 10 episodes on each page. Towards the end of each page, press "Další " to take you to the next page.
I am studying russian on My own and of course it's possible. If you like something it becomes easier. Very Nice video Steve. Musically you should listen to линда she is a great russian singer.
@yourheadtops Movies are harder but today I understand most of what I hear. I have listened to thousands of hours of Russian.
@Luvlinguae1969 I found Tolstoy easier than modern novels. I don't think it matters. It depends on what you are interested in.
Отлично! Это потрясающее, что Вы умеете читать русские классики в оригинале! Я считаю, что я умею свободно говорить по русски, у меня есть русские друзья с кем я говорю только по русски, но я еще читаю слишком медленно, и у меня нет достаточно терпения чтобы читать эти романы в оригинале. Я только читаю Чехов, и короткие рассказы Толстого, Достоевского и т.д.
Hey Steve, when could I expect to see Hebrew at lingQ? do you plan on learning this language at any time soon, and having it available at lingQ?
love your vids!!
@GriffenJC LingQ is a tool, a resource. It is up to the learner to use it. To be advanced, it is necessary to do a lot of output as well. LingQ helps you get there, it does not do it for you all by itself.
I agree with Steve - whenever you want to make a consonant soft, try saying it with an "ee" (Russian "и") sound and make that "и" very short. I want to add one more thought: when your consonant is followed by a Russian "е", as in "река", "нет", you need to say "э", not "йэ", after your "и". E.g., "река" sounds like "риэка" (with a very short "и"), not "рийэка", "нет" is like "ниэт", not "нийэт". I could never figure out why so many people stick that extra "й" before soft Russian vowels. :)
I am impressed that you're reading so many Russian literature classics.
What do you do to not confuse Czech and Russian? As you know, Russian is my first language and Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian (or whatever politically appropriate term you want to call it) I learned as an adult in Sarajevo. I still confuse similar sounding words. Do you have any tips?
Speaking Croatian and learning Czech I find it most amusing when I mix up words e.g. napad and nápad😂
it was really helpful. thank you for the czech links
@funfurfreak Thank you. I am focusing more on Czech right now but still keeping my Russian going with listening and chatting with some of our tutors at LingQ./
Hello dear! Kuprin "The Pit"( Iama- Яма ) - it's cool! You are a good fellow! Find also Leskov's prose, Valentin Rasputin, Dovlatov ... Lyrics Pasternak, Mandelstam ...! Best regards, Irina from Russia=))
@WayawaRu I have the DVD of the movie, and it is indeed excellent!
Steve, I have been wanting to start on a new language for a while and I think I might have made my mind up on Russian. However, Im a bit heseitant because I am not sure if it would be a good idea to start on a new language. Im currently learning Spanish, I have been for about 4-5 months, my level is decent. I can read it very slowly in my Bible, and listen and speak it at the level of a 3 or 4 year old. In your opinion, should I wait to begin another language until my Spanish is more advanced?
@lingosteve There are loads of plays and novels on czech radio. For example, on the station called "vltava". Unfortunately, they don't have transcripts, and finding the original text is usually not much help since the broadcast versions tend to be "adapted for radio".
How many languages do you know and how do you remember them? I want to learn a lot of languages but I'm scared I'll forget them
You have to practice them regularly. There's no other way. I speak 8 and still haven't forgotten any so far. Not afraid about that.
@lingosteve Check the Czech Radio online archive hledani.rozhlas.cz/iradio/ and select Toulky.., there are about 300 episodes there. Earlier ones that the site does not include can be bought in an online bookshop. I strongly recommend the whole archive site, a lot of content can be found here, my favorite radio shows available there are Hovory o Evrope, Zbozni a bezbozni and Studio STOP.
Thanks for the resource links. I'm hoping to learn Russian while I work in Moscow. I've found how far 'harasho' and 'ya ne gavaroo pa ruski' get me ;).
I guess you mean the "r" in "дверь". I just add a "slight i or y" at the end. The same sound exists in Swedish for words like "berg". I did not know what palatized was.
Hey Steve, I just wanted to know how you got past the difficulties of sentence structure? I didn't have time to watch the whole video, but I know languages phrase things differently and it won't sound right to the English ear. Like I said, Im learning Swedish, and sometimes the structure will be, "You want teach you a new language" when it really means, "You want to learn a new language". When I'm reading the words, Im reading each individual word and it's meaning but not necessarily the phrase.
Dear Steve, thank you for everything. Who's playing piano in the background?
Dobrá práce :)
I've been doing German for a while now, and I'm quite alright. I am thinking of perhaps stating learning Russian in the new year.
A really good language learning site I've found is Memrise. It's probably too basic for someone with your abilities, but I find it a big help with learning Czech.
Yes, I know that of course but I wasn't asking for that. A point of my question was the similarity between czech and german.
Není zač, opravdu Ti patří můj obdiv. Dost mě i potěšilo, že odepisuješ i s diakritikou.. Wow! :) Kdyby jsi potřeboval s něčím pomoci nebo něco zjistit, tak klidně napiš. Bydlím 60 kilometrů od Prahy a je opravdu maličkost Ti něco zjistit nebo na něco odpovědět. A česky tu určitě budeš mluvit, hodně Čechů je líných mluvit jinak než česky :) Ahoj
@barsorrro Аgreed, I think Tolstoy, or Balzac, or Perez-Galdos cause no problems. Even Racine and Moliere seem more modern than Shakespeare.
Russian und German writters, musicans/composers (also italian), poets are the best in the world.
Nobody had/has such beautiful literature.
+Wolfgang von Baumgärtner true.
The French and the English are pretty high up, too.
Wolfgang von Baumgärtner learn Portuguese so that you can know Portuguese poetry and literature before you talk. Oh and Spanish has also amazing poetry, which completely ignore, also. Don't contaminate others with your lack of knowledge. Learn Portuguese. I love some German authors too, don't worry, and Russian of course. But you are so silly, everybody in south Europe knows that appreciate German literature, English literature, etc, but you are not able to appreciate anybody s else and go around ignoring who appreciates you. I love Schiller, his letters I know and adore them. And I'm crazy about some other German genius. But you are ignorant and arrogant. South European people are humble. That's the problem. Portugal has giant poets and writers only that you have no idea that they exist. Ok? Are you able to think we have been also writing and creating all this time? And Spain, and Italy, France.... Etc. Schlegel is one of my favourites. Best regards. Здравствуйте Viva Europe. It's mostly because of Germany that countries like Portugal and Greece are being destroyed. They were forgiven of all their debts in the past, and that is how they became a rich country after the war, and with the help from US, But they can't do to others in despair what was done to them. Besides those countries are suffering because Germany most of all changed all the agreements of how the beautiful EU was going to function with the countries who were not as rich. As it was obviously necessary! There was an agreement on how to make possible that those countries would build up to become equal to the rich countries step by step. Instead, nothing of that was done. EU under the orders of Germany, completely destroyed Portuguese agriculture and most of our production. Then they send millions of not asked money. Then everybody comes to steal our great companies and all our possessions in order to pay back for money which we didn't ask for and was of course used in nonsense, to make some international people rich. Yes yes I guess you are going to say you are also against EU. Well that's even worst. What it needs is to change for better, which is almost impossible in that good intention infinite burocratic EU counsel, where nobody is able to change anything for better. For what is EU good? They see our country completely burning away and the you can't even send some help 😪😤. Where was humanitarian help to Portugal to stop the fires? Most of our farming land and beautiful great first has burned away!!! Where was big Germany then? Hey some of my best friends have been German. So calm down. Regards. It's not possible to read Portuguese poetry by translation, of you don't learn some Portuguese. Some years ago, Fernando Pessoa was discovered by the international community. Just because he was a bit translated. But we have many more yet to be discovered. It's just that that poetry is kind of... Regards again. All the best. Again, здравствуйте
@@MariA-ev8uy I love Portugal. My favorite writer is Jose Saramago. A very humble artist. Who was conscious about social problems of humanity. I live in Portugal though I am from Latin America. Thank you!
@@MariA-ev8uy Swearing and ranting in Portugal
Steve -- have you ever had any qualms about going to some of these podcast or streaming services that originate in Russian or other countries? I have some apprehensions about cookies, site tracking and registration issues. Have you had any issues?
never
I think I understand how LingQ works now. From what I gather from your videos, it's about listening first to understand what you're listening. LingQ is a good idea. After listening it many times and knowing what it sounds like (to train your ears) you can work your way in speaking it and imitating the accents you wish to learn (I watched your video about accents).
Is that the goal? It emphasizes listening? I also use Forvo to get a second opinion on pronunciation of single words.
I just signed up for Forvo, can you learn more than one language at a time?
How do you sign up for Forvo, isn't it just an online pronunciation site?
I don't have experience on learning two at once. I prefer to learn one at a time. From reading other anecdotes, people say the same thing. It's better to dedicate a month for a language and another month for the next, than 2 months of mixed learning.
Besides, it the long run, you'll realise it's not a race.
Yes, you can make an account.
Once you sign up for it you can record your pronunciation of the word and it is archived to come back to later.
yes but you cant ignore that czech and germans lived next to each other since the very beginning, so czech do have quite a lot of common with german. in bohemia, all nobility spoke for about 500 years only german and in 19th century the new czech language was made from the medialval czech, the czech that survived thanks to the people on the countryside AND german. almost all the word that are more complex where made up from german. and dont forgent czech slang, which have a lot of german words
This is my impression, too
@stonefree1375 I never think about it, probably a little of both.
Did you read RUR by Karel Čapek? It's very lovely book and I recommend to you :)
Thanks, something to look forward to.
Ja také chcí císt Karla Čapka. Už jsem koupil knihy "Válka s mloky" a "RUR".
@TheWizardWeiss I tend to work at LingQ until I reach a level where I can read away from the computer. I tend not to look words up in a dictionary. History books are easier than novels.
saluti dall'italia steve ! i would like to learn russian , which self -teach course would you suggest for it ? i thought of assimil , but then i heard you said in a video that assimil for russian isn't bad though pretty borig . as far as you know is there something better out there ? i am interested in something with lots of listening an reading .
@lingosteve
It always bugs me when spanish DVD movies don't include spanish subtitles. They make it so much easier to keep up with the dialog.
Steve I would love if you added Indonesian to LingQ, it's quite an easy language not too complicated to add!
I'm currently filming a documentary about language learning (more details will follow in a video, which I plan to post in the LingQ forum). I aim to learn Spanish within 12 weeks (and when I say learn, I mean conversational, talking about a film etc.). I hope you will be able to give me your thoughts on this...
the main exception is the conjugation of verbs: to see, to hate, persecute, offend .... etc. Гнать, видеть, держать, ненавидеть.... и др.
Hey Steve, when you say process, you have an accent, what is it? I am just curious, thanks.
@CreateYourWorldBooks Yes there is a lot of confusion but I hope that things will clear up as they did with Spanish and Portuguese.
@thefilmgoer You can go to my blog The Linguist on Language and listen to me talk to Evgueny, my tutor, in Russian. Yeah, many mistakes but what can you do? I will put a link in the Show More notes area under the video.
I started with Czech first and then with Russian. I have the impression that I progress faster in Russian, but that's probably because my basic knowledge of Czech grammar and vocabulary helps with learning Russian.
I'm still learning...
I started about 4 years ago. However, the first three years I studied only with low intensity and almost without possibility to interact with Czech speakers.
My native language is German.
@@stefanreichenberger5091 same here German speaker learned Croatian and now Czech, it is a challenge😂 but I'm from Austria so the Czech republic is near and so opportunities to find Czech native speakers 😊
@lingosteve That is odd that you say that because I find through movies I am able to really get comprehensible input through the context of what is going on by the motions, emotions, etc. Also, it helps when I already know the story. I'm doing this with my German right now while watching the Harry Potter movies.
Love Czech movies because Czech humour is great but I don't often get it because my Czech knowledge is meagre, but what is especially valuable are Czech fairy tales and movies and animated films 😊❤
Hello Steve! I have to say that you are amazing that you are trying to learn czech. You wrote that your parents were born in Czechoslovakia. Due to your surname i guess there were Germans who had to escape Czechslovakia after WW2. Is my guess right? How much your czech improves since you started till now? Greets Martin
ml1cnak No my parents were Jewish and escaped in 1939.
Oh, ok. And what about your czech? Is that improving?
мы с вами примерно одинаково "сходим с ума"...Но мой английский оставляет желать лучшего... Начала учить немецкий, французский и македонский)))привет из Новосибирска.
Thanks for your opinion :D
You do know !! :)
д = normal hard D
дь = soft " palatized" D
Р = normal hard R
Рь = soft " palatized" R
Thanks you for your opinion.
Hello Steve!
What would you recommend for learning Slovak?? because this again is different to Czech lol!
GREAT!!! BRAVO!!!
@namitsu1 I will find out how similar when I start, but I suspect that they are quite remote.
I agree, and certainly don't take their views as the gospel either. That site does offer audio with transcripts though, and a certain variety of positions.
@rsloma71 Yes, after Czech, since we have Polish at LingQ.
@GriffenJC It is a part of the process.
Nice, Im listen to you, because I learn english, and you dont have strong, strange accent. So, I easily recognize your speach. I thing Is more difficult to learn czech, when you speak english, then in oposite case. I learned russian in school, and as rusian has similar grammar, it was not very difficult. You are correct, less then 40% of vocabulary is similar, but all slavic languages have similar gramar, and they are all mutualy understandable. I wish you succses in study, have a nice day.
Firstly Ithought it is a American/Canadian thing to learn Russian and then Czech thinking about it it is somewhere in Eastern Europe but then I' similar: I know Croatian and learn Czech now and came to a similar conclusion: thought I might profit from my knowledge of Croatian, helped me to know a Slavic language but the vocabulary is sometimes the same, sometimes similar but often different and I keep guessing wrong all the time😂😂 my feeling is that Czech also in its structure/vocabulary (which is incredibly rich) is heavily influenced by German which adds to its complexity, it sounds strange but I would say Croatian is more Slavic and simple (historical language politics and reform is always important)
But what I find extremely difficult in Czech is the pronunciation so that although I understand the written language to hear and understand the spoken language is a totally different matter😂
I agree that the learning itself is the most interesting thing so I keep doing it constantly🎉🎉