Hi Bryan! Compare names of months in other Slavic languages (Western and Southern Slavic languages, as Eastern borrowed Latin names for months). You will see something interesting.
The first day of the month ''Duben'' is also called ''April'' in Czech language, and it's the day people pull pranks on each other. Usually you make a prank, as silly as you want, and then when people get mad at you, you say ''April'' and most of them have understanding of what's going on.
@@liu3chan Something tells me that he knows what it means. Also its a bad translation, I think, I never heard english speaking people use the term april weather.
@philipcooper8297 Do you remember that ČT News background with a mushroom cloud in Krkonoše on Apríl? 😂😂😂 Best prank ever, I hope the creators weren't busted.
I find it funny how you prefer moon names that are named after some god. What I like about Czech names is that they are connected with nature and not with some gods. I like the respect of the old Czechs, with which they named (celebrated) certain periods of the year. By the way, March - "březen" - is pregnant from the word go - březí (but this word is not used for humans pregnacy, only for mammals). THIS is because wild animals mate in October and give birth to young in March. These two months were important periods in a year, because at that time, it was forbidden to hunt in the forests.
The main reason for that is that during "národní obrození" when people mostly spoke german in here, some decided to use only czech and started to come up with absurd words like "nosočistoplena" for paper tissue but it translates to "nosecleandiaper". A lot of those words were taken out of the czech dictionary but some still stay, mostly the nature related ones as czechs we're pretty proud of our nature. Also, english has some silly words too. For example walkie talkie. In czech we call it vysílačka which translates to a transmitter.
I have one for you. Word "červený" likely comes from word "červ" since the color (crimson) was made from Polish cochineal larvae (today species Dactilopius coccus is used), which looks worm-like.
Btw. Greek Maya and Roman Maia have nothing to do with each other, it's just a coincidence. For some reason the name Maya is present in many cultures around the world.
For the record in the Czech Republic we spank women with willlow at Easter. That means it's a holiday that can be between March 23 and April 26. And in eastern Bohemia, girls spank boys as well. In some regions a week before boys, in some regions after 12 o'clock on the same day, depending on local tradition. Oh by the way... there's a much weirder holiday in April and YESSSS. I'm talking about the witch burnings.
I'll give you a good hint for Ř. You already know our beautiful thundering R. Just say it with your teeth pressing top-on-top (like you do with S), and it will come naturally as Ř is a combo of S and R.
@bryanflanagan8354 You're welcome. As a translator, I always cringe when I see teachers trying to make things hard by introducing weird concepts just to make you feel like you need them. I understand they need to make money, but still... Rolled R is just soft D repeated twice in a quick succession. Thundering R is soft D repeated three times quickly (you basically double-tap with the tongue after the first soft D and let the air resistance do the trick). Ř is thundering R through top-on-top teeth (after some practice, you can leave a small gap between the teeth to make it more Czech-like soft). Needs like a week of practice. Czech language has accent on the first syllable. No exceptions worth mentioning. Just try to speak with hysterically pronounced accent on the first syllable of each word, as if speaking Japanese. Then tone it down a bit. Again, a week of practice, tops. Have taught foreigners better Czech in two weeks than most teachers in two years. It's not the vocab that makes the language, it's the sound of it. Get the sound right, and everything else clicks more quickly. Cheers!!!
@bryanflanagan8354 Plus a few more tips. Czech is a middle-mouth language. We don't have throat sounds and nasal sounds like English "A" in "actually" and we don't have double pronunciation of vowels. A is like U in "bum". E is like E in "bet". I is like I in "big". U is like OO in "good" but a bit shorter like German "gut". O is like O in "Ogden". It's also not front-mouth like Russian. Czech doesn't have H overtone to consonants K, T, P. Q is basically KVee sound and only used in words with foreign origin. Hope this helps. Feel free to ask about anything about the language. 🙂🖖
Almost all the foreighners have a big problem with pronouncing the Ř sound, it is very different from R. Try looking up someone saying this tonguetwister: "tři sta třicet tři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes tři sta třicet tři stříbrných střech" or "byl jednou jeden řek a ten mi řekl, abych mu řekl, kolik je v Řecku řeckých řek. A já mu řekl, že nejsem řek, abych mu řekl, kolik je v Řecku řeckých řek". It is pretty trivial for us, native speakers. But foreigners would probably have to train it for several years to pronounce it. But try saying "dolar,lira,libra, rubl" repeatedly. This is hard for even me as a native speaker. We have pretty hard tongue twisters.
Arabs have 5 different pronunciations for "H" (well, its more 5 different pronunciations of CH) - THIS Is a hell for us, becouse they don't create a sound in their mouth by tongue, but in their throats, which is something strange for us... Ř is ok, Englishmen can make it through learning RŽ...
How could Květen not win? For me, as a Czech, this is the most poetic name of all. But Czech should inherently loose 0:12 to english just for making up their own names. Even Slovak language, which is very very similar to Czech keeps the month names from latin language ...
Like, sorry dude, but NO ONE will ever prove to me that August is a better name for month than Srpen... Like, AUGUST is SO DISGUSTING NAME!!! 🤮 But the others are okay, I gues... 😅😂
Thanks for the comment. I actually kind of agree with you, but I knew that the English names for September-December are so boring that English was going to lose. I chose August over Srpen to make the game more competitive😄
What are your favourites from the names of the first six months in Czech and English?
Hi Bryan! Compare names of months in other Slavic languages (Western and Southern Slavic languages, as Eastern borrowed Latin names for months). You will see something interesting.
@@januszlepionko Ok thanks for the tip:)
Dude educates me about my own language, thats crazy 😂
Thanks very kind of you😄
Right? I haven't even realized how complicated our language is, we take it for granted 😅
Květen which is May in Czech ... means actually April in Polish ...
Even more compicated! :)
The first day of the month ''Duben'' is also called ''April'' in Czech language, and it's the day people pull pranks on each other. Usually you make a prank, as silly as you want, and then when people get mad at you, you say ''April'' and most of them have understanding of what's going on.
Yes thanks, apríové počasí is an interesting one for me as well:)
@@CzechinwithBryan Aprílové Počasí means April Weather.
@@liu3chan Something tells me that he knows what it means. Also its a bad translation, I think, I never heard english speaking people use the term april weather.
@philipcooper8297
Do you remember that ČT News background with a mushroom cloud in Krkonoše on Apríl? 😂😂😂 Best prank ever, I hope the creators weren't busted.
I find it funny how you prefer moon names that are named after some god. What I like about Czech names is that they are connected with nature and not with some gods. I like the respect of the old Czechs, with which they named (celebrated) certain periods of the year.
By the way, March - "březen" - is pregnant from the word go - březí (but this word is not used for humans pregnacy, only for mammals). THIS is because wild animals mate in October and give birth to young in March. These two months were important periods in a year, because at that time, it was forbidden to hunt in the forests.
Thanks for the info. In the end,Czechs months win this language war!
The main reason for that is that during "národní obrození" when people mostly spoke german in here, some decided to use only czech and started to come up with absurd words like "nosočistoplena" for paper tissue but it translates to "nosecleandiaper". A lot of those words were taken out of the czech dictionary but some still stay, mostly the nature related ones as czechs we're pretty proud of our nature. Also, english has some silly words too. For example walkie talkie. In czech we call it vysílačka which translates to a transmitter.
@@janjindrak3448 Thank you for the great comment, I agree, walkie talkie is ridiculous! I've got to so 'nosočistoplena' has some charm:)
@@janjindrak3448 Vazne si myslis, ze 18. a19. stoleti existovaly papirove kapesnicky?
@@pavelhladik2151 Samozřejmě, že ne, ale prostě obecně kapesník, to je asi jedno, jestli to byl zrovna papírovej nebo látkovej kapesník
I have one for you. Word "červený" likely comes from word "červ" since the color (crimson) was made from Polish cochineal larvae (today species Dactilopius coccus is used), which looks worm-like.
Ok thanks for the info:)
Dry english humor
Very funny. Good for you!
Irish*
But yeah, I just discovered his channel and I'm binging all his [four] videos 😀
Thank you very much:)
@@frufruJsame for me now.
Duben is my favorite. No bias here! Give me that Oak.
Good choice, you're an Oak fan, I like it!
Btw. Greek Maya and Roman Maia have nothing to do with each other, it's just a coincidence. For some reason the name Maya is present in many cultures around the world.
Ok thanks, maybe I owe the Romans an apology:)
For the record in the Czech Republic we spank women with willlow at Easter. That means it's a holiday that can be between March 23 and April 26. And in eastern Bohemia, girls spank boys as well. In some regions a week before boys, in some regions after 12 o'clock on the same day, depending on local tradition.
Oh by the way... there's a much weirder holiday in April and YESSSS. I'm talking about the witch burnings.
čarodějnice, oh yes deserves a video too:)
Kveten is better than May.
Yes MayDay win. But not May as month. 😂
Fair enough:)
On May you mentioned Mercury, but what about Brian May? :)
Ah! Thanks, how did I miss that:)
I'll give you a good hint for Ř. You already know our beautiful thundering R. Just say it with your teeth pressing top-on-top (like you do with S), and it will come naturally as Ř is a combo of S and R.
Thanks for the good tip:)
@bryanflanagan8354 You're welcome. As a translator, I always cringe when I see teachers trying to make things hard by introducing weird concepts just to make you feel like you need them. I understand they need to make money, but still...
Rolled R is just soft D repeated twice in a quick succession. Thundering R is soft D repeated three times quickly (you basically double-tap with the tongue after the first soft D and let the air resistance do the trick). Ř is thundering R through top-on-top teeth (after some practice, you can leave a small gap between the teeth to make it more Czech-like soft). Needs like a week of practice. Czech language has accent on the first syllable. No exceptions worth mentioning. Just try to speak with hysterically pronounced accent on the first syllable of each word, as if speaking Japanese. Then tone it down a bit. Again, a week of practice, tops. Have taught foreigners better Czech in two weeks than most teachers in two years. It's not the vocab that makes the language, it's the sound of it. Get the sound right, and everything else clicks more quickly. Cheers!!!
@bryanflanagan8354 Plus a few more tips. Czech is a middle-mouth language. We don't have throat sounds and nasal sounds like English "A" in "actually" and we don't have double pronunciation of vowels. A is like U in "bum". E is like E in "bet". I is like I in "big". U is like OO in "good" but a bit shorter like German "gut". O is like O in "Ogden". It's also not front-mouth like Russian.
Czech doesn't have H overtone to consonants K, T, P.
Q is basically KVee sound and only used in words with foreign origin.
Hope this helps.
Feel free to ask about anything about the language. 🙂🖖
It's not brezen, it's bŘezen 😂😂😂
pro mě květen, should I add more??the word sound, the time of a year it represents.. and 1. máj😂which means kveten v slovenstine.. ultimate winner🎉
Ok great, good choice!
Listopad for me.
Listopad is one of my favourites!
@@CzechinwithBryan I was born in listopad. Funny videos, jen tak dál :)
Velikonoce are also originally a Celtic festival that was also celebrated in ireland in the past
Thanks, a little connection I have with this place:)
Almost all the foreighners have a big problem with pronouncing the Ř sound, it is very different from R. Try looking up someone saying this tonguetwister: "tři sta třicet tři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes tři sta třicet tři stříbrných střech" or "byl jednou jeden řek a ten mi řekl, abych mu řekl, kolik je v Řecku řeckých řek. A já mu řekl, že nejsem řek, abych mu řekl, kolik je v Řecku řeckých řek". It is pretty trivial for us, native speakers. But foreigners would probably have to train it for several years to pronounce it. But try saying "dolar,lira,libra, rubl" repeatedly. This is hard for even me as a native speaker. We have pretty hard tongue twisters.
Wow thanks! My brain is melting trying to say these😂😂
Arabs have 5 different pronunciations for "H" (well, its more 5 different pronunciations of CH) - THIS Is a hell for us, becouse they don't create a sound in their mouth by tongue, but in their throats, which is something strange for us...
Ř is ok, Englishmen can make it through learning RŽ...
How could Květen not win? For me, as a Czech, this is the most poetic name of all. But Czech should inherently loose 0:12 to english just for making up their own names. Even Slovak language, which is very very similar to Czech keeps the month names from latin language ...
I had to let May win because of Hermes:)
Nah, I like listopad the most!
červen doesnt come from červ
Máte pravdu, ale tento příběh se mi líbí:)
It's one of the theories.
I'm sorry but I don't get it - April wins over Duben because it's blossoming and Květen looses to May because it's blossoming? :) wtf?
April was for April O' Neill and May for Hermes:)
Like, sorry dude, but NO ONE will ever prove to me that August is a better name for month than Srpen... Like, AUGUST is SO DISGUSTING NAME!!! 🤮
But the others are okay, I gues... 😅😂
Thanks for the comment. I actually kind of agree with you, but I knew that the English names for September-December are so boring that English was going to lose. I chose August over Srpen to make the game more competitive😄
As Czech i would be soo happy if we got the way Slovaks did with months naming. This one works both ways ... - the gramar/speling
Nice point, thanks for the comment.