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SoundCzechOn St Dynda’s Day
Hello and welcome to Sound Czech, Radio Prague’s language series in which
you can learn some interesting phrases while listening to music. Today,
we’ll hear the 1994 song Ne, teď ne (No, not now) by the Moravian band
Mňága a Žďorp, whose name would deserve a special edition of SoundCzech
in its own right. In this edition, however, the phrase to listen out for is
‘na svatýho Dyndy’.
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SoundCzechBack when I dragged a toy duck
Welcome to this week’s SoundCzech, our weekly language programme helping
you learn Czech phrases with the help of song lyrics, and starring this
week the legendary Jaromír Nohavica. Regular listeners may be wondering
why we so frequently use the songs of music of Nohavica. The answer is that
not only does he write wonderfully entertaining songs, but they’re
chock-full of homey idioms from the times when he was dragging a toy duck
in Moravia – that is, when he was a young fellow in Ostrava. Have a
listen to this song, Když jsem tahal kačera, “When I used to drag the
duck” – or drake, really, but why get technical.
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SoundCzechTo carry someone in your arms
Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s Czech
language series in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song
lyrics. Today’s song is On My Own from the musical Les Miserables, it is
sung by Lucie Bílá and the phrase to listen out for is “nosil by mě na
rukou”.
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SoundCzechPromises are made and fools are happy
Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech Radio Prague’s Czech language
series in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Our
song today is sung by Hana Zagorová and is called Sliby chyby – and that
is the phrase to look out for.
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SoundCzechThat was then, this is now
Welcome to SoundCzech, our language series in which you can learn Czech
phrases through song lyrics. In today’s edition the phrase to look out
for is “To co bylo, neplatí”, featured in a song of the same name by
Czech pop singer Hana Zagorová.
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SoundCzechTroubles with svízel
Hello and welcome to Soundczech, Radio Prague’s signature series in which
you can learn some interesting Czech phrases while listening to a song.
Today, we’ll hear a modern cover version by the band Lucie of the 1933
song Klobouk ve křoví, or The Hat in the Bushes, originally composed for
a theatre play by Jaroslav Ježek, Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich. The
phrase to listen for is mít svízel.
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SoundCzechTo fly like a madman
Welcome to SoundCzech, our language series in which you can learn Czech
phrases and idioms through song lyrics. In today’s edition the phrase to
look is “letím jako blázen”, featured in a song by the Czech pop
group Chinaski.
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SoundCzechAll things hot
Welcome to SoundCzech, our Czech language series in which you can learn
Czech phrases and idioms through song lyrics. Today, we will learn some
expressions that might come in handy for those of us who would like to
complain about the current heat wave. The song we will be listening to is
called “Vedro” by the group Tichá Dohoda. The title of the song means
heat. The word to listen for is vedro.
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SoundCzechBig animals and small beers
Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s
Czech language course in which you can learn new phrases with the help of
song lyrics. Today’s piece is from the musical Les Miserables and is one
you’’ll probably recognize – Master of the House.
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SoundCzechFlek and kvit
Hello, this is a fresh edition of SoundCzech, our signature series in which
you can learn some interesting Czech phrases while listening to a song.
Today, we‘ll hear the song S nebem to mám dobrý, in English “I’m in
good with heaven”, by the rock singer Vladimír Mišík and his band,
Etc. The song appeared on his latest album, Ztracený podzim, or “Lost
Autumn”, which came out this May. The first phrase to listen out for is
držej mi tam flek, or “they’re holding a spot for me there”.
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