INTERVIEW WITH AN EXPAT in Prague, Czech Republic: (ft. YouTuber Arepas for Dinner)

[@DreamPrague]

Don't forget to watch Part 2 on Arepas for Dinner's Channel! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWO1pmBoiKeLqsU

[@toruvalejo6152]

Hi Jen, if you want to see some good Czech comedy series then "Čtvrtá hvězda" and "Kosmo" are the right ones to go! Get it - watch it - you will not regret it! ;)

[@standawot5579]

Hello Jen, about kisses. In my opinion they only want to kiss so pretty woman. :-) You know man. We can do almost anything for beautiful women.

[@CzechMirco]

@@standawot5579 "... REGARDING the kisses." "they simply want to kiss SUCH A beautiful woman." "You know MEN" "We WOULD do almost anything for beautiful women" You're welcome :P

[@CzechMirco]

@Jan Schlossar I don't know what you are raving about and I don't even want to know. I was simply correcting his grammar, because his original statement was an ungrammatical gibberish.

[@CzechMirco]

@Jan Schlossar So you can't use the replies here on YT correctly and you also hand out some extremist labels based on absolutely nothing - yep, you are credit to your ideology. Also a nice example of sanity slippage.

[@matyasvondrak448]

I'm watching you both on KZbin and a video together is a great idea. This channel is getting better and better. Just go on ! ☺️ 🇨🇿

[@DreamPrague]

Thanks for your kind words!

[@jirisubrt4563]

@@DreamPrague Can I ask, if you can understand some czech dialect? Here I send short video about dialect speciffic for Brno: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKuZZ5KZbZ6HsLM

[@zuzanablazkova7753]

Čůrák is one of the absolutely rudest words we have and I cannot imagine a Czech wife saying it to their Czech husband. No no no no no no no :-DDD

[@DreamPrague]

Very glad you clarified that! I will never use it!

[@ukazuticestu2246]

jojo to je pikantní nadávka :D

[@zuzanablazkova7753]

Dream Prague You can save it for extreme situations involving strangers trying to rob you or harm you ;) You’ll hear it from guys every now and then but girls wouldn’t really use it unless they feel really hurt or outraged. Writing this makes me realize that there’s a lot of gender differences when it comes to vocab in Czech :D Just like others have mentioned with ty vole - many men slip it into every sentence and won’t be looked down upon, whereas a woman saying ty vole frequently will be thought of as vulgar!

[@richardkaba5306]

I'd tell that a motherfucker is the word in equal situations in USA ... (from what I can hear in some movies) ... but probably not used so often in CZ.

[@richardkaba5306]

yes and it's true, that this is not a word used by girls or ladies.

[@ArepasforDinner]

I'm so happy we did this collaboration! It was so much fun and came out great

[@DreamPrague]

I totally agree!

[@emilyhatfield]

My boyfriend is Czech, we've been together almost three years and I'm moving to Czech Republic with him next month. About not speaking Czech, it's true! He finds it much easier to just speak English with me, and the same with his friends! The only thing is that his family doesn't speak much english so I'll be really trying to learn while I'm there. Great video guys! Love both of your channels

[@aleksandrafiser8527]

Don't worry, just start trying :) I've learned Czech too, at home, at work, everywhere... Actually I have a feeling that I have real problems with my mother tongue now :)

[@ZdenekHadascok]

I'm sure there will e a lot of comments about "tyvole" and I think you already know it, but you don't want to say "tyvole" to someone you normally "vykas". Although it's pretty complicated (as everything about the Czech language). Generally, I'd avoid using "tyvole" in a formal setting. Curak is generally "a dick". Love both of you. Going to Arepas for dinner now.

[@josefdaniel9070]

Mám opravdu rád tyto dva kanály. A to že o nás mluvíš všeobecně podle mě vůbec nevadí, za prvé my češi sami rádi hážem ostatní do jednoho pytle. A za druhé pokaždé si nás vystihla úplně dokonale. Třeba náš přístup prostě to nejde. Nebo našeho úředníka (ne ne ne). Takže se nenech odradit a jen tak dál.

[@usgbitJS]

“Ty vole” for me is kind of a “teenager” phrase, one of the mildest. I do use is as sort of a mild “shocked” expression - barely avoiding a collision, seeing a car accident... that kind of thing. “vole” is vocative of vůl “ox”, “ty jsi vůl” is an idiom calling the person stupid, akin to “you’re a dumbass”.

[@Samo762]

*Zdenek Pohlreich would like to know your location*

[@BloodRain23]

@@Samo762 : Tak tohle jsi zabil :D

[@pixi909]

Jednu věc je třeba zmínit ( byla správně zmíněná i ve videu například o bydlení) . Praha je specifické město a místo. Ne vše jak se tam dělá, žije, myslí je stejné pro zbytek Česka. Takže udělat si kompletní obrázek o České republice, o lidech co tu žijí nelze udělat jen z pohledu žití v Praze.

[@safirak7988]

"ty vole" is a mild curse word, it's okay to use casually, but if someone uses it all the time, people usually think they are stupid and/or uneducated. You definitely shouldn't use it in a more formal setting or with older people (even relatives, my grandma would probably kill me if I said that to her lol).

[@Pidalin]

PS: Cyril and Metodeus brought glagolic, which is older than cyrillic, but we switched to latin in 11th century so we had no time for accepting cyrillic.

[@marekj1100]

The question is: Which language was written in the script? The answer is: Old Slavonic (not Czech).

[@dvmavgoor]

"The oldest known complete Czech sentence is a note on the foundation charter of the Litoměřice chapter at the beginning of the 13th century."

[@dvmavgoor]

@@marekj1100 At that time there was no Czech, Russian, Polish or any other modern Slavic language. Old church-slavonic (a form of a south Slavic dialect) was not only a `lingua franca` for all slavic people but it was, in fact, a standard written language of them all.

[@marekj1100]

@@dvmavgoor, You can hardly have any evidence for such wishful claim. There was no modern Czech, obviously. But locals of Bohemia had to speak somehow, and the way they spake, at that time, would be called ‘Czech’ - Old Czech, as it happens. As far as I know, ‘we’, the modern people, know rather little of what the Old Czech was like. We do know that Old Czechs appeared to readily comprehend Old Slavonic. That does not mean anyhow that that was what they spoke themselves. There is indirect evidence that Old Czech did differ, to some degree, as could reasonably be expected. To apply the term ‘standard written language’ to that era sounds rather ridiculous to me; it was the only written Slavic language of the day, alright. However, most people could not read or write in any language. The same for ‘lingua franca’ for the time and place… Most people of that time and place never travelled. They would come into contact with travelling merchants, however, and one can reasonably assume that such merchants would communicate with the locals in whatever gibberish they could put together to be comprehended. To presume some standardised linqua franca for the area and era, sounds preposterous.

[@dvmavgoor]

@@marekj1100 I believe you are overthinking what I've said, I nowhere claimed that people of this area had no language. I've just pointed out that the Slavic languages in their modern forms did not exist back then. The dialects, that evolved into their respective languages much later, were still very close to each other. To the point so they were counted as dialects of the same "language" (I must have added quotes here, so you won't be nitpicking).

[@natalieheikenwalder1351]

When americans know Prague better than you 😅😅

[@Josephine-Padlock]

Most epic crossover on YT! :D

[@DreamPrague]

Haha, that's great! don't forget to watch part 2! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWO1pmBoiKeLqsU

[@AlleAbroad]

JEN YOU ARE SUCH A GOOD INTERVIEWER!!!! I can't wait to check out Arepas for Dinner's channel! You two are so fun together! Also here for the zooms lol.

[@nyanxkitten]

I've been watching your videos for a while now, and I really enjoy them! It's super interesting to see the perspective of other expats. I'm Canadian but raised by a Czech mom and currently living in Zlinsky Kraj. Definitely going to check out Andrea's channel 😊

[@DreamPrague]

Oh good! I'm glad you will check out her stuff, it's very entertaining. Thank you!

[@marekstefka6880]

Hi guys 😁 first of all I love both of you're channels and I think you're amazing 😁😊 but there is one thing you got wrong in this video that I'd like you know 😅 Saint Cyril and Methodius did not bring Cyrillic script here! Saint Cyril came up with glagolitic script (in Czech Hlaholice) that they and their disciples used. Following the death of Methodius, their students were forced to leave Great Moravia (because of different political climate) they fled to Bulgaria (also a Slavic country that used the same language as we did at the time, it was called Old church Slavonic). In Bulgaria they were using the script until 12th century, but only in a few orthodox churches. Hlaholice was a script Cyrillic actually descended from and some of its letters even made it into Cyrillic. So yes it is true we never used Cyrillic, because we used script that predates it and that influenced it. That's just a little Czech high school student, I hope you found my comment a little useful and that you'll continue to create such a fabulous contents as you always did. Sending you love from south Moravia 🙏❤️

[@DrStein-oh7mq]

I think that one of the problems is also that cyrilice in czech is a different thing than цырылица (read cyrilica, means azbuka in czech) in east and southern slavic languages. But otherwise i think thatyou did really good job summin all that up!

[@jakubfridrich5768]

So I've just spent a month in the Czech Republic, one week of which was spent living together with about 6 friends of mine most of who I've known for around 10 years (a lengthy time period at the age of 19). Your channel came up as an unlikely topic of conversation between several of us, with all of us having watched your videos, finding them very interesting. So keep up the great work and don't let the haters comments get to you, as I'm sure you know- they will always be there no matter what you do. Keep it up!!

[@DreamPrague]

Wow Jakub, your comment really brightened my day, thank you! I'm happy to hear that my videos are worthy of conversations between friends. Have a great summer!

[@bohumilheneberk6326]

it is lovely to see you together, kouzelné vás vidět spolu ve společném videu, je v tom kouzelná energie, která se tím vytvoří, perfect conecting, thanks !!!

[@miroslavaklimova4597]

Thanks, Jen, Thanks, Andrea. This was such amazing for me. I follow both of you and I likes your channels.

[@tomastezky89]

Wonderful, that two of you are together, because two different Americas might see or Czech Kingdom Bohemia in different light. And it's great. KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED FOR YOU ... A moc moc Vám děkuji jménem všech Čechů, Češek, Moravanek, Mraváků, Slezanů a Slezanek za to, že tady u nás v Čechii jste = it makes us Czech ABORIGINALS very happy 👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍

[@filipkriz1466]

Great collab, you are my favourites, good idea, love you both.

[@DreamPrague]

Yay, thank you! I'm so happy to hear that!

[@ArepasforDinner]

Awww thanks!!! We were very exited to do this!

[@Venuse777]

You girls are great. I am Czech living in UK. I really enjoy your videos Jan. Now I subscribed Arepas for dinner. 😁

[@gingersimasnaps]

Když během sledování videa sjedeš do komentářů a literally každej je o nadávkách :D SUCH A CZECH THING :D

[@gabrielakovolova9613]

Oh that is so interesting that you are mentioning smiling on strangers. I have never realized that we (Czechs) don't smile much or talk to cashers in the stores untiled I moved away. So when I visit Czech Republic I do get those strange looks when I smile at or talk to stranger. I love your videos, great inside from life of expats. Thank you.

[@DreamPrague]

Thank you for watching Gabriela! Keep smiling...

[@VeggieVisa]

Fun video! Nice to learn more about you both :D

[@DreamPrague]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@vladp7405]

This is really funny 😎 because I've been following these two completely independent channels and now you got together 😁

[@martinajurickova5750]

13:30 Cyril and Method brought hlaholika writing. It is a little bit similar to cyrilika, but not the same.

[@petrjiricek8039]

Actualy cyrilika is simplified and younger version of hlaholika, its been developed by succesors of Cyril and Metoděj, in Bulgaria.

[@marekvasku5610]

In the previous older video, the sentence was that Czechs build houses out of concrete. Maybe it's a mistake in translation or subtitles (?) Houses are usually built of fired bricks here. From the concrete panels are built ugly high-rise apartment building on the outskirts of the city. Nowadays, lightweight foam concrete bricks are also popular. Houses in Prague are mostly made of fired bricks, very old houses mainly made of sandstone. Clean concrete houses are not built much - it's unnecessarily solid (for example, the Czechs built a house in Hiroshima, the only building that left standing. Or the Czechs built a big Grain Silo in Beirut port).

[@marekj1100]

Newly built homes often seem to start as steel-reinforced concrete skeleton; the rest of the walls may be bricks.

[@vycmnl]

Některý nový stavby jsou z monolitu udělá se ocelová výztuž zakreje se to bedněním přijede mix a vyleje se to a je postavíno zábavný je když pak lidi co si na nový harfě koupěj byt za 6 mega zjistěj že v tom atom bunkru neni ani mobilni signal :-D

[@MatthewDunstan]

Great video - my two favourite expat KZbinrs in Prague, together! One of my favourite Czech phrases is 'to je skoda' - it's a pity/shame. Mainly because the word skoda means both 'shame', and is the famous car brand - and whenever I point it out to Czechs they've never thought about the fact they're the same word :p Jen - if you want to learn more about Czech film, may I recommend NaFilM? It is the National Film Museum (nafilm.org) - its just off the Franciscan gardens in the centre of Prague. Its modern, interactive and a lot of fun!

[@DreamPrague]

I know!!! I always thought about how strange it was to name a car "shame" and my Czech friends hadn't really thought about it either! Thanks for watching ;)

[@1Mardan11]

it also means "damage" Like when something happens to property or so, a news article usually says: "Škoda byla vyčíslena na 50 tisíc korun." (which is something like: "The cost of damages was estimated at 50 thousand crowns.")

[@MatthewDunstan]

@@1Mardan11 Even less flattering for the Skoda cars! :p

[@watchdogCZ]

@@DreamPrague Well, the surname is from 15th century, I think, and probably means "someone who suffered some damage". As for the car, it is named after a very famous factory owner with that surname. The company made a lot of things. Artillery pieces (namely naval cannons), ship and fortification armour plates, and fortification cupolas and turrets made by "Skoda" were a legend in many countries.

[@marekvasku5610]

"škoda" = damage , harm, injury, loss, detriment, hurt, waste of..,, "Škoda" is old surname. Škoda CAR = merger of (1925) "Laurin & Klement" (1895, cars, bikes, motobikes) AND Škoda's engineering works (1859) (named by Emil Škoda). The surenames have nothing to do with the meaning of the word and no one usually seeks a connection. OR "Šíp, Křídlo, Oko, Dobré Auto" (Logo of car).

[@altarxxl]

tak to jsem necekal dve damy co sleduju a udelaji video spolu super

[@markrandle9905]

Brilliant ladies as ever. Missing Prague lots at the moment although my wife flies out on Monday. I have to stay in the UK and work. Right...on to Part 2.

[@janfarlik3598]

Excellent! Amazing! You should stick together doing this, because I don't know nobody, who could do it better. Yours videos are one of the bestest.Don't stone me.I have learned this grammar in UK.Good luck, Honza z Julcu.

[@VenusRadha]

Hey Dream Prague. I am also a Czech from Ord, Nebraska, although my last 8 years in America were spent in Eugene, Oregon. I currently live in Hanoi. My Grandmother spoke Czech but the language and culture were not really passed on, except the food. I miss both of my Grandmother's Czech food. I am a trained opera singer. I told my mother that I wish that that the language would have been passed on because it would have made learning Dvorak a lot easier. Andrea, thanks to your video about dating a Czech man, I now understand why my uncle and cousin always sat in their underwear at night on the farm. I am used to taking off my shoes in the house now because of 8 years in Asia. I like being barefoot. But everyone here wears and shares plastic slippers. My kung fu brother may be opening a dojo in Prague sometime within the next 2 years and I may be coming with him to help. I do have questions and will DM you both via Instagram. I have questions about moving to Prague and hopefully possibility of meeting up. I am in my 40s. I discovered your videos yesterday. Will be in touch soon. Xin Ciao!🌺🙏

[@DreamPrague]

Thanks so much for watching! Wow, you have an interesting life!

[@TripleCZ]

Your videos keep getting better. I'd love to see more collabs. Good job!

[@DreamPrague]

Ohhh good because I have some more collabs in the works!!

[@kethpronibath8336]

Glad to see this two angel together..

[@DreamPrague]

You're sweeeeet.

[@kethpronibath8336]

❤️ most welcome

[@8422373]

Omg literally my two most favourite KZbinrs!!! Love ya’lll😭😭😭

[@ArepasforDinner]

[@chrisdunn1155]

Another great video! Jen, your 'Uřad Lady' always makes me laugh out loud. Re. Barandov - I'm sure you already know it but Pelíšky is a great film and really sums up Czech humour for me.

[@pidanka24]

I always enjoy videos of both of you, so it’s nice to see you meet and make a content together. 😊

[@DreamPrague]

Thank you for watching and commenting!

[@VladimirLukele]

It's very interesting to see two different views of expats. You should do this much often in this way

[@redraven8482]

OOOO Both in one video! Amazing. Like it. :)

[@LennysLoveChaos]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh this video was so much fun, it feels like we are friends and you were talking directly to me... So nicely done ! Loved loved loved it ! x Lenka

[@DreamPrague]

Oh thank you Lenka! I've seen your videos too, I'm glad you're watching!

[@LennysLoveChaos]

@@DreamPrague I love your channel - especially when you do the caracters.. they are time consuming to make but man- they are brilliant ! I love your expression, and think you are gorgeous! Love ( and chaos) from the Netherlands

[@DreamPrague]

Well you brightened my day, after editing myself next to the gorgeous Andrea all day, I’m heading out to buy some make-up! Glad you appreciate the characters! 😘

[@LennysLoveChaos]

Dream Prague 🤣 you don’t need makeup! X

[@DreamPrague]

I got eye cream instead🤣🤣🤣

[@emynex7097]

Hi, thanks for the video and I would recommend you to watch old czech fairy tails like S čerty nejsou žerty, Byl jednou jeden král, Šíleně smutná princezna... and much more! Czech old school fairy tails are really great + it's much easier to understand them :)

[@martinfabian9781]

I love serial Vyprávej too. This serial is perfect. :)

[@DianaBarreraNja]

I loved your videos guys! I am learning so much from you and the Czech culture 🙌🏼

[@DreamPrague]

Haha, well if you don't mind learning about Czech culture from a slightly skewed (American) perspective, they we're your girls! 😂

[@londresparis_1]

When Andrea said "commodity" at 3.43, she was thinking of "comodidad" in Spanish, i.e. the comfort of having her husband speak Czech

[@DreamPrague]

Oh! That explains it! It made me laugh, a czech partner is definitely a commodity!

[@ArepasforDinner]

It is 100% I do that a lot... I know there's an english version of the word and I just use it... Like I used to say enamored all the time... Which is Spanish but makes me sound so fancy! I wanted to say that having him is a perk... *facepalm* haha

[@Ah0jtadyHanka]

You should watch czech comedy serial COMEBACK :D It's about typical czech family and their friends, and every czech person loves it here... I believe you will love it too !

[@LennysLoveChaos]

you guys are hilarious ! Love your chemistry...

[@ArepasforDinner]

[@monikas.9632]

Ježíš Marie! What a nice surprise! Jen and Andrea together! It was a very good idea! Nice to see you together girls:)

[@DreamPrague]

Ahoooooj Moniko, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@dominika5173]

I like both of your chanels, but you Jen have such an amazing charisma and the best sense of humour that sorry not sorry you will always be my nr. 1...:D

[@DreamPrague]

Thanks Dominika! I'm happy you enjoy the content!

[@whatisawitch2550]

Yesterday I received one of those customs letters...and even though I'm Czech, it's still scary/super confusing to go through all those pages haha

[@DreamPrague]

Glad I’m not the only one!

[@richardkaba5306]

So many interesting information and most of comments react to "ty vole" and "curak" ... welcome to CZ :)

[@miplev]

"6:40" - "I realy like TY VOLE...!!!" - I'm dying... :-) :-) :-)... You killing me... :-)))

[@vanessablaho8622]

Such a cute video !! I still always smile at people. It no longer bothers me if they don't smile back. Also, the amount of comments about "tyvole." =D

[@JanPavlikdr]

Hi girls, well I’m surprised that you made this video together, was great idea. I’m subscribed to both channels. You should put your efforts together, Jens production is really well prepared, with great themes, excellent sense of humor and very good ideas and point. Andreas videos are light for me to see how foreign see simple life and things in Czechia. Don’t get me wrong I like the both, it’s just different, and maybe this connection will be “heavy light” mixture of both of you. But of course this is just maybe 😉 take care girls!

[@DreamPrague]

Thanks for always commenting, Jan! the more videos we each make, the more we "come into our own" so to speak. It was a fun collab!

[@Greghouse]

They said the goal of the colab. was to make me aware of the other channel. Well.... mission failed because I already loved both of your channels.

[@ArnyRimmer]

"Vole" is used like an insult by decent people and like a common "title" for friends between not so decent people. Phrase "ty vole" can be used by decent people and it is used in situation of surprise, it means wow! or what?! I have always despised the people who used the word vole like a dude. As a child I composed a little ironic pun. It was a conversation of two friends: - Máš sirky, vole? - Jo, vole! - Kolik, vole? - Tři, vole! - Ty vole! These days "vole" is for many people a very weak word. So they call their friends (and every other people) "pičo". I think that some people are really mental.

[@toruvalejo6152]

Except as "parasitic word", insult or rough addressing of a friend "ty vole" also works as a word of relief (of frustration) like: "No ty vole to snad nemysleli vážně!".

[@davidvavra5053]

Jen, I've followed your videos for some time. My ancestors came to the USA from the Czechoslovakia are in the 1870s, and settled in Nebraska. They were from the Bruno area and from 50 km west of Prague. My folks, who are both 93, can still talk Czech as well as English. I was interested to hear your husband is from Nebraska. We hope to travel to Czechia soon and use your videos as a proper. Andrea this is the 1st time I've seen your video. It will be fun to watch your take on the Czech culture.

[@DreamPrague]

Very cool! My husband's great grandfather emigrated to Omaha Nebraska from just outside Brno. I hope you get to travel here soon!

[@JBereza]

"vole" with meaning similar to "dude" is quite a common word. It is very informal and very often it appears as a bad habit. People are often saying that without even knowing that and can be hard for them not say that. If you use it a lot in conversation with person who does not know you he/she can get impression that you are a simple person with not very bright intellect. Sometimes phrase "no ty vole" can have a similar meaning as OMG very often in situations when you are annoyed and surprised at the same time or in situation when you want to express that your experience was very intense.

[@michaldragoun8430]

Tady někdo zapomněl na chybu ve videu o dopravě (přednost na neznačených křižovatkách) 😂😉 Jestli si to dobře pamatuju, tak jsme tě tam v komentářích málem ukamenovali, to bylo od nás ošklivý. Jinak teda super video, tahle forma kolaborace je vždycky skvělá.

[@slavecek]

Michale, je mi líto, teď budu kamenovat vás. Nedoporučoval bych vám používat „kolaborace“ v tomhle kontextu; v češtině se význam toho slova výrazně zúžil, vyhranil a zhanlivěl. „Spolupráce“ je myslím dostatečně výstižná... #grammarnazi

[@michaldragoun8430]

@@slavecek Prosím pěkně, o hanlivém nádechu většiny použití slova "kolaborace" v češtině vím, nicméně jsem doufal, že lidem z mnou použité větné stavby dojde, že jsem to slovo použil zcela úmyslně jako nadsázku. Proto prosím, než použijete jako reakci vznešený symbol #grammarnazi, najděte si příspěvek, kde je alespoň nějaká chyba.

[@peterinvestor]

Somehow youtube suggested me Jen's videos months ago and another suggestion was Andreas' and I knew that one day you will make a collaboration. I think also Andrea or Jen said it in one of the videos or in comment section so I knew it will happen anytime soon. Good job ladies, now time to check Andreas' part

[@DreamPrague]

Thanks for watching Peter!

[@s0urce1]

Honestly, you killed me with the word "Curak" being all over the screen :)))) I wasn´t expecting that to pop up at that moment :D

[@ArepasforDinner]

I guess it has the worst connotation... Sorry!!

[@DreamPrague]

Yeah, whoops! I didn’t realize how offensive it is! Omlouvám se.

[@s0urce1]

@@DreamPrague It's all good, don't apologize. I totally understand the process of learning new language 😉👍

[@Jess94Rocker]

I really appreciate your eco-friendly lifestyle, like using public transport and eating a more plant-based diet :) Btw in Pilsen there is a great vegetarian restaurant called Vegebistro

[@blablebliable]

Let me just say, the kissing on 2 sides is something I do and all my friends do. So I agree with you it is quite common in Czech Republic.

[@tomnovotny9953]

Great to see you guys got together. I love you both keep up the great work. (Can you both do a video asking your husbands questions)

[@ldsfreelance575]

Love this video from my two favorite you tubers!!!

[@DreamPrague]

You're so kind!

[@michalpovida]

Check out HBO show Terapie, there is one of the best czech male actors Karel Roden as a main character, it takes place basically in a psychologist surgery, where there goes a few interesting people and stories. One of the best tv shows, that czechia actually made

[@DreamPrague]

Thanks for the rec!

[@savagesinema]

Loving this channel.

[@elmono3939]

9:00 Jen's reaction - PRICELESS ! LOL

[@eliskasimunkova1556]

I love both your channels so much! Have a nice day! :)

[@DreamPrague]

Děkuji Eliško!! Mejte se!

[@juraslacinajuraslacina6822]

Great idea to put both of u together. U look like good friends

[@DreamPrague]

Yeah she’s hard not to like!

[@richardkaba5306]

Hi girls, lovely to see you together. I followed both of you already (I mean your channels) and both vlogs are very nice. Listening about the people in comments ... you know, the reason, we (czech) people are following you is that we like to know, what others think about us. We are very small nation and even our history is very rich, for the last 80years we struggled a lot. So we like to hear somebody is interested in us and of course we like to listen to a good things :) In comments, no matter how good your vlogs are, always will be idiots. So don't care about them at all. It's there problem, not yours. And Jen (is it Jen or Jenn?) if you need any help with Czech language or offices, don't hesitate to ask for help, I am sure we all would like to help you.

[@MarvinCZ]

Strange, I thought I was already subscribed to Arepas for Dinner. I watched all of Andrea's recent videos anyway. I'm subscribing so I don't miss any, just in case.

[@MartinKozub]

I would rather avoid "Ty vole" altogether :). I feel like it is something mostly (but not only) adolescents would use. And it is certainly something you will not hear everywhere and some people would consider it rude - especially the older generation.

[@MacGyver5AF]

Hi Jen, Sir_Mac here, as always! I had a difficult night, full of work and before I go to bed, I decided to check yours and Andrea's channel for new content. When I saw you both together, I thought I am hallucinating! I wasn't expecting this type of video coming at all! As I understood, both of your husbands are "Johns" / "Janové" / "Honzové" ... :) Question for both of you, ladies: Do you want / plan to have a small cottage (chata) or bigger cottage (chalupa) one day in the Czech republic, or it is something, you didn't "adopt" from our czech culture?

[@DreamPrague]

I would love a chata! Perhaps one day! I’m so glad you liked the collab!

[@Wendy-xx4me]

So interesting - would love more like this!

[@willyjeff85]

Jéé, to jsem rád, že jste natočily tento rozhovor. Rád jsem si ho poslechl a moc mě to bavilo. Napadla mě taková blbá otázka: díváte se na známé zahraniční filmy, ale s českým dabingem kvůli výuce češtiny? Jen pro zajímavost, protože já třeba posloucháním originálního znění filmu angličtinu hodně procvičuji. Původně jsem tento text napsal anglicky, ale pak mě napadlo, že když vám chybí konverzace v češtině, možná je lepší ji napsat česky :-) Mějte se hezky.

[@grannyjuju9260]

Love you both!

[@mirekkraus2458]

You should take a trip to Dačice and say sorry to mayor and director of local museum :D :D

[@DreamPrague]

I plan on it!

[@jenniferhalat6335]

I follow both of you - love this collaboration!

[@DreamPrague]

Thanks Jennifer!

[@Domihork]

I guess the main confusion with cyrillic is that in English what you call cyrillic is actually "azbuka" in Czech (and other slavic languages). While "cyrilice" is the old slavonic script that was developed in Bulgaria from "hlaholice" which is the script that Konstantin and Methodeus brought to Great Moravia. But at that time the language here wasn't called Czech, it's called Old Church Slavonic. So yeah, I guess technically Czech was never written in neither cyrilice nor azbuka. But Czech evolved from Old Slavonic which at that time was used in most of Slavic Europe and in some places (such as Bulgaria), Old Slavonic was written in cyrilice. I guess you decide if it means that in the history of Czech cyrillic was used.

[@DreamPrague]

I'm learning so much from this channel's comments!! 🤓

[@vvv6704]

Cyrilice je písmo a azbuka je rusky abeceda, pouze se přenesl význam jelikož jsme se učili azbuku cyrilice. Azbuka není písmo.

[@DandyNinja]

Batter translation of Dude is "Kámo" which is casual slang shortcut of a "Kamarád" = Friend. "Ty vole" means "you ox" but it's general used also as a reaction to surprising/unbelievable situation, but as a call sign it's mostly used in some football communities and less intelligent circles or if someone is doing something stupid.

[@Pidalin]

Kámo is more like slang from some specific parts of country or from specific groups of people. I am originaly from Prague and I really hate when someone is calling me kámo. You know what I mean, you meet some begar who want cigarette and sayig "Hej kámo, nemáš cígo?" I really hate it. I think it's used mainly in northern bohemia or something like that.

[@demonofmordor4405]

how about shows like Hospoda or Comeback? :D for me and my friends they are total classics :D

[@caleuxx9108]

Great video. Fun to watch you 2 together. "Ty vole" - using that at the beginning of every sentence is typical of people with low education and social standing ("mluví jako dlaždič"). Constructive criticism versus noncontructive attacking criticism - this is a concept that many Czech people dont understand (in English there are these standardized descriptions for criticism but in Czech this is not so) - as far as I have seen and heard: other youtubers just disclaim that they will be deleting aggressive or vulgar content or even block that user from writing comments and then they actually do that - boundries/limits/consequences. Oh, and 1% of the population in every country had narcissistic personality disorder - those people attack, criticize with no qualms.

[@pohlpiano]

Actually, for the first time seeing churros in Mexico, we just could not help but say that they just look like... that

[@rogerflorida1498]

I subscribe to you both as well as Honest Guide. Good stuff.

[@HristinaSedlackova]

It is lovely to see you two collaborate. You should make more videos together :)

[@DreamPrague]

I agree! It was a ton of fun. 🤓

[@LLuckyB]

Hey ladies, since I like both of your channels, it's been a nice surprise to see a colab video. :-)

[@DreamPrague]

Oh good! I'm glad you already watch us both!

[@jachymmoucka259]

i long time hope you can do interview thi is great

[@AziBery]

Amazing women. I'm watching you both and I'm really happy for this video. Maybe you can try to cook some food and taste it with Andrea :)

[@DreamPrague]

Great idea!

[@FluffySylveonBoi]

I recommend Co Na To Češi, it's the Czech Family Feud xD

[@techHmrk]

Ty vole is not nearly as bad as čůrák but that being said čůrák is one of the most horrible word in czech.

[@heidihol]

Girls! This is so weird from my end to see you both here, because I avidly watch both of you. Even weirder, is that I was thinking how there should be a youtuber meetup with you all and Janek and Honza from Honest Prague in September!! I'm so giddy you both collaborated . Love from me...Heidi Holub (USA) and Vojta Holub, too (CZ). We come to see family every year but this year we're staying for a while. Would love to connect...if that doesn't sound creepy. HAHA!

[@BTEWMUADDIB]

Moc pěkné povídání. Dík.

[@kacaouch526]

That's quite funny... I am from Czech and I live in Australia... l am always the only one who takes my shoes off... I guess old habbit :D aneb stareho psa nowym kouskum nenaucis :D

[@DreamPrague]

Funny! Do your hosts stare at you in shock when you take off your shoes?

[@kacaouch526]

@@DreamPrague Yes!!! they were very surprised!!!...So now I often try to encourage them to do it too... But l found that it is easier to teach Czech people to stop drinking than to teach Australian people to take off their bloody dirty shoes:)

[@DreamPrague]

@@kacaouch526 Hahah, I feel your pain!

[@jarito7]

Great video! :) A quick qstn.... have you met/do you know who Gavin Roy is? He has a yt channel called "TadyGavin". I'd love to see a video with the two of you talking about learning the Czech language or your experience from the Czech republic or something else about your czech experiences :D

[@DreamPrague]

Hi Jaroslav! Yes I met Gavin at a Polyglot conference in Brno last summer. He's a really nice guy. I'd love to do a collab with him someday!

[@mikeman787]

Nice..And do not forget lady from denmark...Y 2 !! Do you know?

[@letecmig]

"Ty vole" can be used in so many ways and depending on the context it can be on the whole spectrum of affection to extreme rudeness to expression of surprise to meaningless sentence filler. And also it could lead people to place you into 'uneducated' social class if used too much out of the right context. Not speaking about gender-specific rules for using "ty vole". (ladies usually use it less or not at all after they are out of the high school, and guys rarely use it when ladies are around .... again,unless they are teenagers or close friends) If I was non-native speaker I would avoid it altogether. Based on my experience with non-native speakers, you will 'miss the mark' about 60% of times, and it ends up just weird. I only know one foreigner (canadian) who can pull off "ty vole" correctly.... but his Czech is, I would say 99% on native-speaker level .... so my recommendation is: until your Czech is on that level, do not go to "ty vole" territory;)

[@ondrejjaluvka6766]

Super video :-) Ale tak třeba říct policistovi "Ty vole no tak tu pokutu snad nemyslíš vážně?" není právě na místě. :-D

[@DreamPrague]

😂😂😂

[@aksileb]

Hi guys, I watch you both and was pleasantly surprised to see you made videos together 👍🏼 I have some polite and well-meant remarks so don’t get offended. Regarding “ty vole” and the other word that I will not even repeat: ty vole is casual but it is also rude! You can say it to your friends or among young people but you can’t use it with strangers not to mention older people - that’s like calling them idiots. And the c-word, I can understand that as a foreigner you can’t feel the connotation but calling that your husband is probably the worst you can do (even if it’s a joke). That’s the worst word to call any man basically. I hope that helps with your Czech learning 😉

[@DreamPrague]

Thanks for the tip! Also I would only use dude with my friends, not even with my parents.

[@aksileb]

Dream Prague I use ty vole quite a lot. Everytime I’m amazed and among friends. But sometimes I say it to my Mum by accident when I’m excited, a slip of a tongue, she used to be offended by it but now she doesn’t even notice anymore 😂 She knows I don’t mean it.

[@martinapokorski5157]

I bought a doormat saying Take off your shoes and bring in the booze and put it in front of my door so I do not need to ask people to take their shoes off. So make them to read it and do it :D