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SoundCzechHey, don’t brag!
Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, our long-running language series
which looks at popular Czech sayings through song lyrics. The expression in
today’s episode is Hele, nemachruj (Hey, don’t brag) featured in a song
of the same name by 1980s Czech pop icon Michal David. More
SoundCzechTo have butter on your head and a dumpling in your throat
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 song is by a singer going by the name of Xindl X and
it’s called Poslední večeře - The Last Supper. More
SoundCzechHaving no steam
Hello and welcome to SoundCzech, the only programme on global airwaves in
which you can learn something interesting about the Czech language while
listening to song lyrics. In this edition, we’ll hear the track “Ani k
stáru”, part of the music score for the popular Czech film, “Vratné
lahve”, or Empties. The phrase to listen out for is “nemám páru”. More
SoundCzechOn your knees!
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 song is by Ivan Hlas and is called Na kolena. More
SoundCzechWhat might they be doing in Cutthroats?
Hello and welcome to SoundCzech, our weekly programme to help you learn
Czech through song lyrics, and in this case place names as well. The Czech
Republic is packed with towns and villages with bizarre names, from Aš to
Žabeň (the name of the latter having something to do with frogs). But
just looking at some parts of Prague is enough to give you an idea.
Here’s the folk singer Pepa Nos (which incidentally translates as Joe the
Nose in case you’re wondering) thinking about what people from different,
strangely named parts of Prague might be doing at the moment in his song
“Copak asi dělá”: More
SoundCzechA fight on a knife’s edge
Welcome to this edition of SoundCzech looking at expressions in the Czech
language through song lyrics. In today’s episode we look at sayings
associated with the word battle or fight which is boj in Czech. The
featured song is sung by Daniel Landa, related to the Hussite wars.
Bojovníci means warriors. We’ll be looking at fighting not in an
historic context, though, but on a more comic book level. More
SoundCzechStraw sticking out of my boots
Welcome to SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s popular series in which you can
learn things about the Czech language you will not learn elsewhere, and
enjoy music while doing it. In today’s edition, we’ll hear the song
“Sprostý chlap”, or Vulgar Guy, by the popular Eben brothers. The
phrase to listen out for is “sláma mně čouhá z bot” or straw
sticking out of my boots. More
SoundCzechIt’s a sausage to me
Welcome to a fresh edition of Soundczech in which you can learn new phrases
with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by the group Vypsaná fixa
and the phrase to listen out for is “je mi to jedno”.
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SoundCzechRenaming the world in Czech
Hi, and welcome to Sound Czech - which is going to sound Czecher than ever
today because we’re going to talk about the Czechification of foreign
place names, i.e. exonyms. We’ll start with Austria, because after
hundreds of years of cohabitation Czechs have renamed just about everything
in the country, beginning with the word Austria itself, Rakousko in Czech,
as you can hear in this song by Šlapeto, “Kampak na nás bolševici”,
where they sing about the “rakouský stát”, meaning the Austrian
Empire.
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SoundCzechCooking with plain water
Hello and welcome to Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which you
can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s rap song is
by Bow Wave and the phrase to listen out for is “umí vařit z vody”.
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