Culture shocks I experience in Czech Republic as an international student

[@isurus8906]

In our country (Czechia, or generaly in Central Europe) the people are usually greeted once, if you greet the person more than once during the day, it can look weird. Even in buses, trams, and trolleybuses, people usually do not greet each other when boarding. The exception used to be trains with closed compartments, where when you boarded and there were already some people there, they greeted each other. However, it also depends where you live. In large cities like Prague, Brno, Ostrava, etc., where people live in greater anonymity, strangers do not greet each other. On the other hand, in the countryside and small villages, even strangers usually greet each other. It also generally applies that a junior greets an elder first, and a lower official greets his superior first. But it is not a strictly required rule. And in terms of that "take care of yourself" in the sense of "stay safe" - it could have been a linguistic misunderstanding by the Czech girl, because the Czech girl could have understood it as "Bye and do better, you are careless about your looks" or something like this - in Czech "dbej na sebe!" but the Nigerian girl meant to say "stay safe!" - in Czech "opatruj se!" It is necessary to realize that English and Czech are very different languages, and Czechs express and understand many things in their language in a completely different way than Anglophone people, and it can easily lead to some kind of misunderstanding.🙂

[@veeke_kelo]

Ohhhh, thank you very much for this. This was really helpful ☺️

[@robertsafar2908]

nashledanou means literaly ,,see you later"

[@MulubesratTamrat]

wellcome

[@amookehinde99]

Pls ma can someone survive with 17000czk per month with savings and feeding in a month. In czech republic

[@karlhowellbehr3042]

Hi Veekee, thanks for the feedback for us Czechs. Prague is a multicultural city, but we are not as far as for example in Asterodam. Please make more videos so we can learn something new again. ❤

[@kwesioduro3548]

Hi Veekee. I am the one you are talking about. I speak both French and English. I was supposed to come Brno in February this year but I couldn't get a date for the visa interview so I had to postponed it to September. I managed to get a date in July but when I went for the interview, my documents had expired so I have decided to go to Czech in February next year. My documents are now ready so hopefully October or November i Will go for my interview. And seriously, you really need to learn the Czech language. I have already started learning on my own. I believe the problem with English speakers is that there isn't conjugation in English. That's why we find it difficult to learn other languages. But those who can speak languages like French and Spanish will find Czech quite easier. Hope to see in Czech when I arrive. Greetings from Ghana

[@karlhowellbehr3042]

Hello, in Prague and Brno, mainly students, but also in international companies, everyone speaks decent English. But it is of course a big plus to know Czech at least partially, especially for the older generation. It's great that someone is learning Czech even though we are a small country. Greetings from Czechia, hopefully see you soon. 😊

[@isurus8906]

Yes you are right. If you speak French or another language that has conjugation, it can help you when studying the Czech language. However, the Czech language is really very difficult, because it has not only conjugation but also declension, that means the variation of the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, by which its grammatical case, number, and gender are identified. If you are planning to come to the Czech Republic and study here, it is definitely good to have at least the basics of the Czech language, because the local people will appreciate it very much. In addition, even though Czech is a small language, it belongs to a large family of similar and related Slavic languages, and you can easily communicate in Czech even in neighboring countries such as Slovakia or Poland, where very similar and mutually intelligible languages (Slovak is something like its dialect) are spoken. My advice is don't worry too much about grammar because it's too difficult. Learn mainly vocabulary and only basic grammar. You can speak simplified Czech, when you use only one form of the word (you avoid seven cases). Czechs will still understand you well and will appreciate it very much. And if you also find Czech friends who will speak Czech with you, you will soon learn to speak correctly and you will even be able to learn the seven cases in time.

[@genie2933]

English has conjugation. You conjugate verbs which is basically the change in verbs to either express a mood, tense, person etc. For example the verb ' To look' I look good You look good He/she looks good We look good You look good They look good etc

[@kwesioduro3548]

@@genie2933 I agree with you that English has conjugations. However compare it to a Czech verb like "dělat= to do or make " Já dělám Ty děláš On dělá Ona dělá Ono dělá My děláme Vy děláte Oni dělají And the same verb in French Je fais Tu fais Il/Elle/ on fait Nous faisons Vous faites Ils/elles font Please do you see the difference ?

[@genie2933]

@@kwesioduro3548 I was addressing you writing English' doesn't have conjugation', and another commenting to that as well. I was concerned about people being misled. Had it been you had written English has a less complex conjugation, I wouldn't have commented. I speak other languages aside from English.