CZECH #4 - Four pillars of Czech

[@jennd.4521]

I love your lessons! Language and culture, humor and style...please keep making videos!

[@ThePredatorspredator]

Jennifer Bayler-Daugherty Stand in line, I adore her. 🤓

[@rigchick6985]

Brilliant ... just brilliant. You make learning Czech interesting and fun. Thank you.

[@die_bäckerin]

What a delightful video. Very witty. I had a smile the whole time I was watching. Can't wait to learn more Czech.

[@LearningToLinka]

Working my way through your videos and every single one is amazing. You are making some of the best language videos I've seen. You deserve so many more views and subscribers :(

[@jammmy30]

+++!

[@GGG1113331]

Just started learning Czech and your videos are so helpful! Thank you! Also, Bohemia is named after the Boii, a Celtic tribe that inhabited the region. The Romans named the area Boiohaemum, meaning Home of the Boii. Boiohaemum eventually became Bohemia. Czech comes from a legend of three brothers, Czech, Lech, and Rus who got separated on a hunting trip. Rus settled in what is now Russia, Lech settled in Poland, and Czech in Bohemia. We're reading about these topics in my class :D

[@scolpi73]

Thank you, this is new for me.

[@basementcattiger]

Russian propaganda

[@ellensparrow4022]

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[@marshallballantine-jones3819]

I just started teaching myself Czech. I'm delighted to have found your channel!

[@CzechforGary]

Welcome and bravo!!!🎊🎈🎉

[@1AlejoYT]

I loved the video!!! Funny, curious, different. The ending was great with the running, the monument, the beer. Wonderful job!

[@CzechforGary]

Alejandro Albornoz Damme Děkuji Vám 🌸 Actually, it wasn’t 🍺 but Vídeňská káva!!! (Vienna coffee) ☺️

[@ThePredatorspredator]

Jůůů--such charisma! This is so entertaining and wonderful. Děkuji!

[@CzechforGary]

Jůůů sounds really native! bravo!!

[@ThePredatorspredator]

Czech for Gary I practice every day. Your lessons ring through the streets of Americká. Jsi super učitelka. Děkuji moc. Mám tě rád. Čau 😊

[@ygoryanka3729]

Ce qu'il y a de bien avec vous quand on est francophone, c'est qu'on apprend le tchèque tout en améliorant son anglais (au moins dans le vocabulaire, puisque vous parlez lentement, distinctement, si bien qu'on comprend tout). Děkuji !

[@CzechforGary]

Děkuji Vám, i když... opravdu není zač! La lenteur de mon débit n'est malheureusement pas volontaire. Bien au contraire, mais... à l'impossible, nul n'est tenu 😉!

[@ygoryanka3729]

@@CzechforGary C'est ainsi que je l'avais compris. Pour moi, qui maîtrise moins l'anglais à l'oral qu'à l'écrit, c'est une aubaine : je peux suivre vos cours sans le moindre problème. J'admire sinon comment vous prononcez les mots tchèques distinctement avec le visage impassible, alors qu'il y a tout de même des sons et des assemblages de sons "a little bit strange". Je ne prendrai que l'exemple d'un mot simple : "klobouk". Que ce mot est élégant dans votre bouche, alors qu'à le voir écrit il fait plus penser à un "gros bouc" ou "un gros plouc" qu'à un chapeau ! Ce sont des choses pareilles, et l'humour de Čapek dont j'ai le souvenir (l'humour belge est semblable), qui m'incitent à apprendre le tchèque. Je regarde parfois des films en V.O. (sans sous-titres), rien que pour entendre parler le tchèque. Récemment, un petit bijou en noir et blanc de Václav Hudeček (le réalisateur, pas le violoniste) : "Konec léta" (1967). La voilà, l'Europe qu'on aime !

[@alludinyiscaveodreamz7902]

What A ‘Surprising way to start’

[@harrylime8412]

Lady, you are the best. Keep it up!. Love your country ❤️

[@CzechforGary]

Děkuji, a mám radost že se v Čechách cítíte dobře.

[@MarcErra84]

It was worth it, specially for the disguises. Děkuji!

[@ufb3iw99xn9]

So sad I can't click the link anymore, I married into a Czech family and am headed there to visit from Canada for the first time! This lesson is the one I struggle with the most. Thank you for your videos! You're amazing.

[@CzechforGary]

Thank you 😊 As for the replacement of the link, you might want to copy the vocabulary instead. It’s some extra work, but it helps to memorize. Have a safe journey and pleasant time in Czechia!!!

[@sebastolafgravberg6757]

Great work and thank you for your humour and refreshing tone!

[@bilaliq1449]

Dekuju moc! Na shledanou

[@mdhruska]

Almost lost me at 7:47😉 but have truly captured my attention with your intelligent, thoughtful guidance! I appreciate your magical personality and look forward to your instructions as much as you are willing to share🙏

[@CzechforGary]

@@mdhruska I can clarify whatever is unclear! Thank you for your kind feedback!

[@sada1504]

This is a wonderful video, and your sense of humor is wonderful! I've loved learning Czech this year, the challenge has been just what I need during quarantine! (And I can now tease my best friend in two languages, it's wonderful)

[@ivettrussianoroszivett3674]

Okay..well.. I did Fall in love with this language! 🤍

[@nauthic3p0]

Still staying subscribed, no matter how much worse it gets 😄

[@1rsalc]

Very interesting and you have a great sense of humor!

[@acimsadiq3072]

Mam I am from Pakistan these lectures are very much profitable for me thank u💗

[@maryrosebelonio3333]

Thank you gary...

[@echolee601]

Amazing！Soooooo impressed by the fortress！Already added to my bucketlist😍😍

[@mandolin8297]

Czech and Polish women are the most beautiful in the world AND have the most charming sense of wit and irony. Obviously the teacher is well-educated in Czech philology and linguistics. Her lessons help me along with Colloquial Czech textbook.

[@CzechforGary]

KEVIN CHRISTIANSON They are also famous for being very capricious 😉

[@johncox279]

You are my beautiful leader

[@CheDCanal]

You have so good czech pronunciation! I would gladly listen to something like a poscast from you.

[@CzechforGary]

Maybe one day!

[@micabad]

I am planning to visit czech and other countries. I decided to learn czech because I read it is one of the hardest slavic languages if not the hardest, and also it uses the Roman Alphabet rather than cryillic script. Your videos are extremely helpful thank you for the added detail on accents and pronunciation. I am an English speaker whose first language is ilocano but mostly forgot my native ilocano tongue due to lack of practice.

[@CzechforGary]

Thank you - I am admirative of your determination. Let me know how you are doing in Czech Republic! Our flags are related - 🇵🇭 and 🇨🇿 , so make time for both languages to keep them alive!

[@Grinder19]

You’re truly amazing 😉😉.

[@kendrickkerr9013]

Your videos are so helpful! I appreciate your help learning Czech!

[@danikalero6357]

LOL you're crazy, I love it! Brzy na shledanou!

[@reevanp5346]

just one week I start to learn Czech language. thanks

[@Alon.Lipelis]

Love your videos.

[@nhialdengnhial1332]

Thank you very much. Your lessons have been so lively! Just that I could still not answer your question on why Czechs are called Czechs and Bohemias Bohemias.

[@CzechforGary]

Nhial Deng Nhial Nhial Deng Nhial CZECH comes from the Forefather of the tribe, praotec Čech. Bohemia was named after the tribe of Boeii (please refer to the answer of Nick Vasquez above). 😊

[@celljog]

04:10 In Southern Moravia we say just 'Dobrý' instead of 'Dobrý den'

[@jamesguglielmo223]

I find these videos extremely interesting. Some sounds are difficult to hear at the moment. I am a singer and use vowels to change the space in my throat to alter the sound of my voice.

[@CzechforGary]

Hope the Czech vowels will be of help, despite the fact that the language in itself was long time considered as "improper" for opera librettos. Until Janáček and Martinů started to change things...

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

Můj žena Ahoj Jeden Ja jsem I love your channel. Very inspiring and beautiful. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇❤❤❤❤❤

[@ianowak]

dekuji moc za video ...

[@AndreMonteiro-cm7dt]

I love your humour 😅

[@1rsalc]

As to your question... I think that the word Czech refers to "praotec Čech". I am not sure about Bohemia... I think it comes from the German word Böhmen, but I don't know what it means. Děkuji mockrát za videa. Jsou to moc zajímavá.

[@vekh5861]

Love this vidéo ! Merci :^)

[@garystannard7044]

Third time of watching and I think it may be getting clearer!? Dekuji X

[@CzechforGary]

Gary, put a face on your profile! We are a small class yet, so don't be shy!

[@miculkat1]

Lmfao your sarcasm kills me! My paternal great-great parents came from Bohemia and Moravia to Texas. My husband asked why I never tried to learn the language so being the ever studious linguaphile that I am, here I am. Thanks for doing this series, it’s very helpful...and hilarious! PS my maiden name is Mičulka, any idea what that might mean or if it’s common?

[@CzechforGary]

Thanks for sharing this beautiful family history - Mičulka could be related to míč (ball), and apparently also to the old Czech 1st name Míč, and 1st names Mikuláš (Nicholas ?) and Michal. You can refer to prijmeni.cz for further details. 😊

[@kendrickkerr9013]

This is very generalized but I believe Czech is the entire region while Bohemia is just one portion of the entire region (with Moravia and Silesia as the other 2). My great-grandfather was from Zbyslavice near Ostrava, but his immigration records state he was Bohemian. Would Zbyslavice technically be Moravian-Silesian and not Bohemian?

[@CzechforGary]

Kendrick Kerr Kevin Christianson is answering your question nicely - please refer to him below. I would say your Great-Grandfather was Czech from Moravia, so Moravian.

[@mandolin8297]

Bohemia refers to the famous influential kingdom in the north-western region whereas Czech refers to the entire country which is made up of three regions: Bohemia, Moravia (in the east), and a portion of Silesia in the north central region of the country shared by Poland.

[@immanuelguzman-magallanes3790]

Because originally the language and culture was identified as Bohemia and Bohemian, respectively, although my history of European nations is beginning to improve; and in the early 1900s (?) the nation became the Czech Republic (???) heheh

[@kailash61]

Can you teach about how to write

[@joyadolezal]

❤❤❤

[@SVANERT]

I like 👍

[@scolpi73]

A very funny video.

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[@basementcattiger]

Did the fort help to defend Czechoslovakia?

[@SVANERT]

💗 😝

[@finjolle]

I somehow suppose that the word Bohemia comes fr German

[@XavierCOLLET-hb3xz]

Oh really you are living in Paris ?

[@SVANERT]

😝

[@brigjay123]

I thought 'prosim' means, you are welcome. sigh

[@OwenRhodri]

It does. Literal translation is 'please' but you can't literally translate this language. It means both 'please' & 'you're welcome, depending on when it is used.

[@brigjay123]

@@OwenRhodri Interesting. Thank you.

[@OwenRhodri]

@@JT-um7li *Any better speakers please correct me I have been learning this hard language for about 4 months now* Excuse me/sorry- Promiňte. This is the one word I always forget in my vocabulary because it honestly isn't that important. Not because all Czechs are rude (some are Czechs are very likeable and warm when you get to know them) but because in English we most often use the word 'sorry or excuse me' when we are speaking formally to someone. In the case of Czech their are clearly defined formal and informal possessive pronouns, for example 'ty' you informal, 'vy' you formal. English sentence example: What are you doing?(informal)/Excuse me, what are you doing?(formal) Czech: Co to děláš? (ty-informal)/ Co to děláte(vy-formal). A bit long but I hope this helps :)

[@OwenRhodri]

@@JT-um7li žádný problém. Good luck with the learning :D

[@hrandolph1821]

dative, not datif, surely

[@garystannard7044]

Third time of watching and I think it may be getting clearer!? Dekuji X

[@CzechforGary]

Keep watching! Opakovani je matka uceni... :-)

[@ThePredatorspredator]

I've been at it for a while. Uf! It's a hard language to learn!