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A 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
Straw 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
It’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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Renaming 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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Cooking 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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On 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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Back 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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To 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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Promises 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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That 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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