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Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech - Radio Prague’s Czech language series which helps you learn idioms through song lyrics. Today, we’ll be listening to a song by Wabi Daněk, which Czechs often sing themselves around a roaring campfire. It’s called ‘Hudsonský šífy’ meaning something like ‘Hudson boats’, though the word ‘šíf’ is a very unusual way of saying boat in Czech, and has more than a hint of the exotic to it. But anyway, the phrase to listen out for is ‘ten, kdo na bradě má mlíko’, which comes at the beginning of the fourth verse.  More

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SoundCzechGetting Untangled

Welcome to this week’s edition of Sound Czech, Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which you can learn interesting phrases through song lyrics. Today’s phrase is “Než se odtud vymotáme” and comes from a song contained in the 1980s children’s story Hurvínek a Lupiči - or Hurvínek and the Burglars – part of the famous Špejbl and Hurvínek series.  More

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