2011-01-29T02:01:00+01:00 Radio Praha http://www.radio.cz/en/article/135608 urn:uuid:24a45391-e51b-50b5-baab-25b4c204c14a 2011-01-29T02:00:59+01:00

Welcome to SoundCzech our long-running language series in which you can learn Czech idioms through song lyrics. Today’s final edition looks at the expression vypdanout z týhle díry – to get out of this hole. The expression features in a song by Mňága a Žďorp a very popular alternative rock band from Valašské Meziříčí, called Ve 4 rano – At four in the morning. The setting is a bar or club just before closing: the music has come to an end, no one has anything left to smoke and the tables are dirty from spilled drinks.

urn:uuid:a01e0b37-69b6-50e8-a5bb-fc7440f7e5da 2011-01-22T02:00:59+01:00

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 the group Alkehol and is called Nesmíš se vzdát – you mustn’t give up. The phrase to look out for is in the refrain – život ti hubu kolikrát nabije.

urn:uuid:41657795-6bef-55d3-bbff-10a798868e3a 2010-12-18T02:00:59+01:00

Welcome to a new edition of SoundCzech, our long-running series looking at sayings and expressions through song lyrics. Today’s expressions all have to do with the Czech word for work – práce – at a time when people either don’t have enough or have too much, trying to clear their desk ahead of the holidays. Featured is a song by 1990s punk band E!E called Práce. In the tune, the group sings “práce, jé práce, práce, je práce”, which translates as work, yay work, work there’s work. The accent on the “e” in the first jé makes all the difference.

urn:uuid:5c6873d6-28df-5933-8c83-177e8dcda7f6 2010-12-04T02:00:59+01:00

Hello and welcome to SoundCzech, our popular miniseries in which you can learn some interesting Czech phrases while listening to music. Today’s song is by Vladimír Mišík and it’s called “Co ti dám”. The phrase to listen out for is “na hromádce”.

urn:uuid:4f7b7ac1-442e-5772-a41f-5b1da6cd6aac 2010-11-27T02:00:59+01:00

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 a traditional Czech folk song sung by Standa Hložek – and it’s called “When I used to come to your house.” The phrase to listen out for is “krev a mlíko”.

urn:uuid:37cf463b-5ea2-56e1-aef1-1661c01d0f9f 2010-11-20T02:00:59+01:00

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.

urn:uuid:23eb9553-e44d-5930-a1b7-a9c302b57b7f 2010-11-13T02:00:59+01:00

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.

urn:uuid:cc7f554a-df2c-5629-8cb9-cd48f3c37778 2010-11-06T02:00:59+01:00

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”.

urn:uuid:e7f1ff8d-e07a-5f6d-ab3b-7ad45b63b050 2010-10-30T02:00:59+02:00

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.

urn:uuid:901969bf-bc3f-5c34-a20d-292af32ee7c2 2010-10-23T02:00:59+02:00

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”: