Radio Prague - ABC of Czech

Summer - time of fun and junk food

12-08-2006 | Pavla Horáková

In the Czech Republic, summer is a time of fun fairs, day trips and also swimming and bathing in lakes and open air pools. Those events and locations are associated with a special type of food, or junk food, to be more precise. Without it the experience would not be complete. More

Czech by Numbers - Banknotes

05-08-2006 | Pavla Horáková

Hello and welcome to Czech by Numbers, Radio Prague's special Czech language programme in which we look at the use of numbers in everyday Czech. Today, as promised, we will take a look at Czech banknotes and their colloquial names. More

Czech by Numbers - Coins

29-07-2006 | Pavla Horáková

Welcome to Czech by Numbers, Radio Prague's Czech language programme explaining the details of the use of numbers in everyday speech. Today we'll be looking at a topic closely related to numbers and that is money. In this first part we'll focus on coins. More

Czech by Numbers - "Number"

22-07-2006 | Pavla Horáková

Hello and welcome to Czech by Numbers, Radio Prague's own Czech language series in which we examine Czech numbers and their use in common speech. Today we will be looking at the word "number" itself in Czech. More

Czech by Numbers - Zero

15-07-2006 | Pavla Horáková

Hello and welcome to Czech by Numbers, Radio Prague's own Czech language programme which explores Czech numbers in everyday speech. Today we'll look at one special number - zero. More

Czech by Numbers - Twenty

08-07-2006 | Pavla Horáková

Hello and welcome to Czech by Numbers, Radio Prague's own Czech language programme in which we look at the use of numbers in everyday language. Today we have reached number 20. More

Czech by Numbers - The Teens

01-07-2006 | Pavla Horáková

Welcome to Czech by Numbers, Radio Prague's Czech language course which looks at the use of numbers in everyday speech. So far this series has explored Czech numbers from one to twelve and explained the idioms and phrases in Czech which use these numbers. Between twelve and twenty, we find that there are significantly fewer fixed expressions using numbers, possibly with the exception of thirteen - trinact. More