CZECH LANGUAGE / DO YOU SPEAK CZECH? / the truth

[@petermoroz6556]

I grew up speaking Czech and after my parents passed, I stopped speaking it. I miss it, it’s such a great language. Prague is beautiful.

[@zdenekstryhal9136]

Try to speak more Czech. We like when other people try that, it's cute and funny. We appreciate it even if it is far from being correct, we do not take it as an offense to the national treasure.

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Ok.... I will try in the future! Thanks for watching and leaving me a note :)

[@MapleRidgeRealty]

I just stumbled across your video and must say your pronunciation is extraordinary ! Hard to believe its not your mother tongue .

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hi Alan, thank you so much! 😘

[@golden.trio.edits.1]

Ano, já jsem z česka/I am from the Czech Republic

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Ahoj!!

[@golden.trio.edits.1]

@@LennysLoveChaos Dobrý den!

[@nellynkaqt9467]

My teacher, a polyglot, once said, that translating Japanese language to Czech is incredibly hard, becuse you have to modify everything they say. Simply becasue Czech language is like, unable to express the sheer positivity and politeness of the Japanese. Literal translation sounds ironic and sarcastic and really stupid :D

[@mightyboosh4376]

Prague pronunciation was funny. Me as a pilsener I had to laugh :D I like that you brought parts of our language back to your home and use that on daily basis. Did you motivate someone else to learn Czech by using Czech words in Netherlands? :D :D

[@Tom-jj6ii]

Dear Lenny, thank you for another GREAT video ! I'm astonished by your Czech pronunciation - especially your "Ř" sounds like from a native speaker! Really hard to believe you don't speak CZ fluently ;- ) Looking fwd to your next videos ! Take care

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hi Tom, I have feeling for how languages sound maybe. In France it is the same. With only limited French but with a good pronunciation people think I am French haha. Thanks for watching !

[@AndreTraveler]

Interesting video. I also speak Czech language it is not easy to learn but I enjoy learning and communication.

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Thanks andre! It is sooooo difficult

[@johnnygomez7063]

let me correct you a little bit - there are 3 Slavic lenguage groups: West Slavic: Czech, Slovak, Polish (and Upper and Lower Lausitz Serbian on the territory of today Germany - dying out unfortunatelly because of permanent germanisation..) The Czechs do not understand to the Polish - fun fact: the accent of polish lenguage sounds extremly homosexual to all Czechs .. South Slavic: Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Macedonian, Monte Negro and Bulgarian East Slavic: Belarussian, Ukrainian, Russian There has been a big Slavic territories with original Slavic population that has been colonised by Germany (all on the right from Elbe river) , Austria (east Austria), Hungary (west border area), Romania (south and east) and Moldova (east part) - and those people has been forced to use a lenguages that is not original to them, even more from different lenguage group

[@vvv6704]

Correct, but with polish it is your opinion, I never heard compare with polish and gay speach, people near to border and what were a few time visit Poland understand well. But I have problem with south--slavic languages, it is not so easy

[@martinanemcova5088]

When she speaks "Prague way" it's funny, but true... I love her!

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hahaha thanks Martina!! You are super nice!

[@PontiacCZ]

The Prague accent example was excelent! :-D

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Haha thanks!! I tried my best ☺️

[@javiermarcialcespedesberne8575]

Hola, que tal?, como van?, Los mejores y más cordiales Saludos desde puente piedra, lima, Perú; ojalá que puedas venir en algún momento a mi país y que disfrutes mucho de todo por aquí, con la familia y los amigos; felicidades por tus vídeos.

[@oldrich41]

Yes, Czech has 7 cases. The horror for the foreigner comes when he realizes that in addition to the singular and plural (2 x 7 = 14 "cases"), there is the masculine gender with 6 patterns, the feminine gender with 4 patterns, and the neuter gender with 4 patterns, i.e. a total of 14 patterns for the declension of nouns. This makes 14 x 14 = 196 endings for nouns alone. Some of the endings are repeated, but the Czech speaker still needs to know their position. Adjectives are declined in a similar way. Let's leave verbs aside, they are even more complicated than nouns with their prefixes and suffixes.

[@kenyirojoshua2930]

Hi Lenny, I love this video, but I was wondering how old were you when you went to Czech Republic to study czech?

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hi!!! 23 :)

[@keenmate9719]

Let's just be clear here. There is no way to learn czech language to any kind of perfection unless you were born here. Look at me, I was born here and my czech still sucks. I still love it though because it's so creative and playful language. :-) Anyway your prague's accent is top notch. It's probably the worst accent there is in czech rep. because it's so dull and lazy. Just look at "No to si děláááááš prdeL!" or "Hele, jako víííš, co..". Still, Ostrava's accent and dictionary is much worse. I'm dying here. Some young kids (my students) have like a 300 words vocabulary. It's horrible. They cannot express any complex thought, not that they have any. :)

[@Pidalin]

There is no Prague accent, people in Prague are speaking same as in whole Bohemia, except some really weird regional things. Ofcourse there are some differences between Prague and Plzeň, but everywhere they are saying bejt and such things. Problem with Prague is that most of people are not borned there so some visitor sometimes wrongly thing he know how "prague czech" sounds, but it's mostly wrong. For example native Praguer would not say "přijdu dýl" like someone from Pilsen, but Moravians very often think people in Prague are speaking like that. Also with that long speaking it's very exaggerated because they are confusing long and short vowels so when someone from Prague is saying long vowel where it shoudl be, someone from Ostrava think he is speaking very longly, but it's just how it should sound. But people from Pilsen are sometimes really speaking longly. Also there is big difference between man and woman pronunciation and you can hear who is influenced by other languages or dialects, I don't know much Praguers who are really speaking like real Praguer, you know, like "du koupit sejra rejži vole" etc.. :-D Maybe there can be even some differences between Prague parts, I am borned in Vršovice and that long speaking like "dobrý dééén" is killing my ears too, I think mostle women are speaking like that, I don't know why. But what is the most funny thing for me is that what people (also mostly woman) are doing in Moravia, like that last letter in word is much more loud than rest of word so it sounds long to me, that's funny when they are saying we are speaking longly. For example when moravian woman want's to say koníci, I hear "konicíÍÍÍ" and that last í sounds completely different than rest of the word. :-D Also their zme instead of (j)sme or gvůli instead of kvůli is no better than bejt or sejra. Or "nabourané auta," how is it better than "nabouraný auta" in Prague when none of that is correct formal Czech? When we were near to Ostrava on vacation, they even didn't recognized we are from Prague, because we arraved in car with plate from some village near Poděbrady. They even asked from what village we are. So when they see real Praguers, they even don't notice that. :-D

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I really learned about declensions when studying Latin, wow. Of course, we do technically have all these cases in English, but we just use the same word form for all of them! I hear that English is easy for non-English speakers to learn, except, of course, for its highly irregular spelling. Most languages tend to drop unpronounced letters as they fall out of the vocal use, but English, strangely, often doesn’t, leading to spellings like knight, thorough, etc.

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Omg, I totally agree... my sons learns English at school and he struggles big time!

[@renepanak8541]

You pronounce "slivovice" and "becherovka" very well ;) Recently I found, that some foreigners have difficulties with pronouncing "CH" sound.. You as Dutch speaker has obviously no problem with that ;) You had a lot of this sound in Dutch.. (edit) You literally said it later in the video..

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hi Rene, we use the ch too in our country. The nothern part of the Netherlands pronounces it a bit harder but in the south we have the same softer pronunciation for CH as the Czechs! Thanks for your kind words and for watching! Love from Nizozemsko !

[@southernbohemian1]

How do you know that you were not Czech in your prior life? Maybe you were a Czech and that is why you like spekacky and even insist that they are healthy because the fat gets burned off, ha, ha, ha. Love your channel!

[@LennysLoveChaos]

hahahahaha, fantastic comment steve !!!

[@jifle36]

Sorry (9:39) it is local way of Czech language, called Pražština. (I am sure that You know it) And many people from Czech, Moravian and Slesian regions ummm Yes, realy hate this.. Your Ř is very good. Exactly like Czech native speaker.

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hi!! Hahaha! I know ! Thanks!!

[@Lahvovy]

I love that you kept using some of the Czech words. :-) "Dudlík" especially!

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hahaha!! 🤩 thanks!

[@johnfrok1287]

Little advice :D : Dont say "short sounds" so long. If you tell something like Dobrý dééén, it is sounding little much sassy :D.

[@LennysLoveChaos]

That was the joke 😂

[@debrakimdk6143]

My family are from Czech. I believe my Grandpa moved to the USA in the 1940s , which he and my Grandma are passed. I remember my Dad had to always tell me and my sister what they were saying!! We now refer to as THE OLD COUNTRY 💕I have so many Beautiful Lovely things from my Grand parents from the OLD COUNTRY ❤️That mean the world to me!!!!

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hi! That is so amazing! I have relatives in the states too. I am from Holland and the brother of my grandmother moved to America in the 1930's. He founded a whole new family there. So cool that you have European roots too! I love Czech Republic, it is always in my heart !

[@Andre_Paz]

Ahoj from Brasil 🇧🇷 (Brazil in english).

[@Transterra55]

I remember some Czech place names: Mala Strana, Nove Mesto, Hradcany, Smichov (I cannot put the accent marks in this comment); then, Ahoj, Prosim, Dobry den, etc. Cool video: Bedankt Greetings from Tennessee.....

[@LennysLoveChaos]

thanks William, I also struggle with the accent marks. Back in my time I was always annoyed with the Czech keyboard settings in Internet Cafe's ... I guess the youth of today has no idea what an internet cafe is lol

[@Transterra55]

@@LennysLoveChaos Good memories! I used the Internet Cafes in Prague and Pilsen...that seems like so long ago.

[@CzechKate]

@@Transterra55 Here you go: Malá Strana, Nové Město, Hradčany, Smíchov & then, Ahoj, Prosím, Dobrý den, etc.

[@vvv6704]

We love you, your pronunciation is perfect! All of family cried with your Czech anthem

[@LennysLoveChaos]

aaaah really ? that is so nice to hear ! thanks so much ! lots of love from the netherlands! x

[@gustavoolivieri6568]

(Assumptions) "that I was Czech in a previous life".... 😄😄😄 "I'm getting old, man!..." 😄😄😄 You're funny! I've been trying to learn Czech. I estimate it will take from 10 to 15 years to me. I hope I live that much, because I'm getting old myself too... (I'm Brazilian, by the way.)

[@junkiesgummies]

Its 23:35 , I am Czech and watching this ...

[@eliskasmerdova6354]

Hi Lenny, I found your videos a few days ago and I have to say that I'm impressed. I love your pronanciation of Czech language and I also love the way you speak about Czech people, Czech culture and the Czech Republic in general. You are really nice and natural person. Wish you the best luck. Greetings from the Czech Republic 😁

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Ahoj !! Thanks so much! Such a kind comment ... it makes my day. THANK YOU SO MUCH for watching and commenting! Stay safe!! The corona virus is terrible but when I hear the Czech news I feel so sad.. Hang in there 😘😘😘

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

How fun that you did this video on language, it’s one of my interests, as you can tell from my previous comments trying to place, very unsuccessfully, your English accent! I have a horrible, flattish native-Californian accent. I would love to see some videos on Dutchwomen’s fashion and style! California is always at least a year behind Euro-style.

[@LennysLoveChaos]

I will definitely add this to my list !! Love the idea and thanks for the compliment! X

[@MacGyver5AF]

Hi Lenny, oh my, this video melted my heart and somehow made me sad as well... I am native czech speaker and your pronounciation is superb. As far as isolated words go, you are definitely better than Czech prime minister, who comes from Slovakia and doesn't pay enough attention to his czech. He speaks czechoslovakially, WHICH IS UTTERLY ANNOYING! So, there are two examples and one conclusion from me. [It only applies if you want to resurrect your czech, which I highly recommend!] Example Nr. 1: There is a guy, his name is Gavin Roy, he lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA and he learns himself a czech for three and half year and he has made an impressive progression. He speaks also spanish and brazilian portugese, but that didn't help him at all... So, your starting position is not "absolute zero" like in his case, so you can get your "rusty wheels of czech" moving easily! :) Example Nr. 2: His royal highness Norodom Sihamoni, the King of Cambodia, is the only monarch in the world, who speaks fluently czech. He studied here from elementary school till the high school of arts ... So he is from the other half of the planet and he did it! So can you! Conclusion: I think it would be sad, if your czech would have to stay dormant for the rest of your life. I don't know what do you do for living or if you have any opportunities to make business trips / travels to the Czech republic, but if you do you can make your czech better. I think the best opportunity for you, czech-wise, is some form of cooperation with Czech embassy in Netherlands or with Dutch embassy in the Czech Republic :-) And the last paragraph from me, short about COVID pandemic - closely watch, what has happened or happens in the Czech republic regarding the "second wave of Covid", it can provide you information and let's say from 14 to 21 days of "headstart". Sir Mac P.S. My supostions (instead of questions) - your favourite czech meal would be "smažený sýr" (colloquially "smažák"), and I assume you like, if have you ever tasted, "tatarská omáčka". I know you love Becherovka, and I assume you like czech stout beer, my suposition is Krušovice Černé ...

[@golden.trio.edits.1]

Máte dobrou výslovnost. Hezké Ř, Ě, atd... Jste dobrá v češtině, i když to není Váš úřední jazyk. ČR (Česká republika) je podle mě trochu ve světě neznámá, ale když řekněte např. Eva Samková, Ester Ledecká, atd,hned budou vědět. Háček nad S je Š, to už víte, výslovnost se dá vždy doučit. Já zase neumím moc anglicky, takže si to video předkládám v překladači. Jste v češtině úžasná. Obzvlášť v Pražštině🤣🤣🤣Ale ne, teď vážně, fakt super. Na to, že nejste rozená Česká mluvčí opravdu vynikající výslovnost. Vím že už jsem asi otravná 🤣🤣🤣Děkuji za Vaše video!

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Thank you so much!! I could almost understand your comment without google translate ! Thanks for watching, I am happy that you enjoyed my video ❤️

[@therra1101]

As a czech the worst is if it is something people have to repeat very often, like in a shop or maybe castle guides and stuff like that. They do start to prolong the words and it does sound weird. I am always happy when a castle guide doesn´t sound like that. It´s so much more pleasant to listen to.

[@petrtuma388]

You have amazing Ř!!!!!! Well done.... It is interresting the way you hear our language, because for us Czech people the most flat sounding variation of the czech language is from northern part of Moravia - Ostrava city and suroundings. it is really flat:)))) And some people from that place even call the people from prague "Spěváčci" - the singers, because our dialekt sounds to tham like we sing the language. But there are differences. South of Moravia they sing to me the most... I guess.

[@CzechKate]

Do you have a favorite Czech word? :)

[@LennysLoveChaos]

I have a few!!! If you have more questions let me know... I will make a new questions and answers video soon 😄 xx

[@LennysLoveChaos]

And thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@Geker3]

Oh gurl, ofcourse we want to know your favorite czech food, dring (exept for beer), brand of beer, bar, place in the country (out of Prague), place in Prague. We want to know if you've ever watched some TV in czech, what was it, how did you enjoy it (or not enjoy it), if you listen to any kind of czech music (cause for me that's something we're not that good). We want to know your expirience with czech administration officers (cause their unhelpfullness usually makes such funny stories). Do I need to continue? Love you gurl, keep making'em videos!

[@LennysLoveChaos]

great questions ! I will write them down for my Q & A... Such nice words from you , thank you so much!

[@jakubdvorak785]

Hello, I wonder if you like any Czech movie?

[@LennysLoveChaos]

my new video is life... go and find out :) thanks for commenting and watching!

[@mari.be.86]

Nice video Lenny :) It's ironic, but I'm originally from Slovakia, but because I've been living in Prague for maybe 15 years, I speak Czech, but I use English really a lot at work and then it happens to me that I want to say something and the first word comes to my mind is English one and I have trouble finding its Czech equivalent :D

[@LennysLoveChaos]

hahaha... I sometimes dream in English.... so nothing like this sounds strange to me lol

[@mikeman787]

Nice and more videos about czech, you are great :)

[@delitekkeli7112]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@yenyenputi-an]

Raising my both 🙋‍♂️and feet . Super relate.

[@steveeuphrates-river7342]

Holy crap. Do you speak Dutch also?

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hahaha… dutch is my native language. Together with Limburgs, my dialect 😂

[@vlastimilzlamal2982]

Did your husband or kids start to using czech words too?

[@LennysLoveChaos]

good question ! I will write them down for my Q & A ! thanks for watching

[@squaretriangle9208]

Still using czech vocabulary after such a long time, you really love the Czech sto pro

[@LennysLoveChaos]

I do!! Sto pro 🤣🤣

[@janac7517]

Hi Lenny, I love your videos and this one was really good! I wanted to ask, if your kids are using the same words in Czech as you are and if they understand their meaning?

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Thanks Jana, I will keep your question for my Q & A video about the Czech Republic. Thanks for leaving me such a nice comment and for watching ofcourse! Thanks!!! X

[@ramonek9109]

You picked up some czech speaking habbits:). I lived in Czech Republic. I studied czech language. The ommission of the definite article is so czech.

[@handycandy7244]

Lenny, do you have a ghost/poltergeist at home? I feel like the door behind you is constantly moving :-D

[@LennysLoveChaos]

really ? maybe it was my son hahaha

Hello Lenny, thanks for sharing your story. It is very similar to my story with Dutch language. I started to study Dutch at University in 2007 and I got even B1 certificate. Anyway after my studies I didn't have any use of my Dutch at my job and I had only a few opportunities to practice. I still understand a bit but speaking is not on the table anymore. I hope to get back to Dutch one time. I fell in love with the language as well. I hope you will have more opportunities to speak Czech. Tot straks!

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hey! Thanks for your reaction. So sad really that we can put a lot if energy into learning something new and then we just forget over time when we don't practise... :(

[@andreaborovcova4959]

Hello, Lenny. I have to say, that I really love your videos, especially theese ones about my country 🙂. It's really interesting to see foreigner's view on our country and I love your Czech too. I would like to hear about your favourite czech food and whether you cook them at home. Sending love from Czech Republic ♥️

[@LennysLoveChaos]

HI Andrea! I will write your questions down! Thank you so much for your sweet words. I am so glad you like my videos :)

[@kurovec80]

You said přátele exactly like my mom

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hahaha... cool!! Thanks for watching ❤️

[@dominikuhlir2347]

I think you need to work on your czech monotonicity :D however, very good pronunciation

[@LennysLoveChaos]

thanks Dominik! I am trying hahahaha

[@VietnamKurd]

Thanks for the video, I really enjoy it a lot, waiting for more information about Czech language!

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Thanks a lot!! What kind of information would you like to hear?

[@rickfrombohemia9550]

No nekecéj! :-D

[@LennysLoveChaos]

🤣

[@ArepoEn]

Hello Lenny, why so many Dutch people - and you in particular - are so excellent and capable in foreigner languages? Your Czech pronunciation is close to perfect! In my experience, many Dutch speakers can correctly emulate not only those notoriously difficult Czech sounds as _ř, č, š,_ ... but also the _ch_ sound - which is typically so difficult for many English speakers. Your story how you passed an intensive course of _Čeština_ reminds me my intensive summer course of Nihongo once in Japan - and my feelings afterwards (and now - when forgetting most of my Japanese...). Yes - when speaking Czech we are not "singing" that much as in English and some other languages. It is mostly because those tricky 7 falls provide some reward on another level: E.g., a very flexible word order in a Czech sentence and some special capability to express easily those features which English (etc.) handle by "singing". So, Czech language is particularly efficient for poetry... Anyway, with much sympathy - greetings from Brno - Aleš.

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Hi Ales, such a nice and friendly comment. THANK you soooo much! We are a very small country and trading has been in our DNA. So for generations we are teach our kids that nobody in the world speaks Dutch so it is important to learn the languages. We learn English, French and German in school so we simply can't escape hahaha.. Thanks so much for watching ! greetings from Holland, Lenny

[@baluskaaaaa]

Paráda !!! :)

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Thanks Barbora!!

[@zofkakoranova7038]

I speak fluently Czech😁

[@LennysLoveChaos]

haha, respect Zovfu!!

[@petermoroz6556]

Please do more. Love it.

[@davidpelc]

Its also strange that for lot of czech people is easier to learn german than russian, maybe its because historicaly czechs and germans are so close and 100 ago we were bilinqual. So even russian languayge has some simmilar words, grammaticaly is czech closer to german than to russian i would say. Also pronountiation of german words is not that big problem for czechs. :)

[@spstepro5]

Good morning Lenny, can I just say your English is perfect. I am loving your videos about your daily life. I will leave the Czech language up to your good self. Have a great day

[@LennysLoveChaos]

thanks so much for watching and commenting ! I really appreciate your support. Warm regards from the Netherlands

[@Pookie..uwu.]

Jsem češka😁❤️

[@LennysLoveChaos]

ahoj!! thanks for watching !

[@justbecauseican1410]

Hoi Lenny, zou ik jou prive mogen e-mailen? Ik zit namelijk ook een burnout en heb een zoontje van 4 maanden. En heb behoefte aan een babbel🍀

[@LennysLoveChaos]

OOOH lieffie! ik zie dit nu pas! Volg je me op insta ? Dan kun je me DM'en!! Hoop dat het goed met je gaat. xx

[@vackad]

Ahoj Mlluvíte hezky česky a po pražsku. :-)) Zvláště vaše "ř" je dokonalé.

[@LennysLoveChaos]

hahaha... thanks !

[@boristurek7]

Kecej česky🤠

[@BTEWMUADDIB]

hezké video díky

[@LennysLoveChaos]

You are welcome ! :)

[@famke5792]

9.25 Ik ging stuk 😂😂

[@LennysLoveChaos]

omg whahahaha... out mij comfort zone zeg maar hihi

[@suvasghimire]

🙏

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Thanks for watching ! warm regards from the Netherlands

[@jose-qk9cu]

🥰

[@LennysLoveChaos]

dankjewel Esther...