Hello Evik, Do Czech students get a specific qualification on completion of zakladni skola? I have just spoken to one of my local further...
The more I think about it the more I think that someone "eats humble pie" after having taken a strident viewpoint that is the opposite of what...
Thanks Sova. You have used the word that I was searching for in my head but which would not come to me - "introspection"!! If I were to...
Thanks Alex - I can see how this would fit in much better now. In English, to "eat humble pie" is to have to admit that you are wrong and to...
Could anyone please suggest a suitable English equivalent for: "jit do sebe" ? Slovnik.cz suggests "eat humble pie", which doesn't fit with...
That is super - thank you :)
Thank you Jana. Are those public lending libraries?
I have couple of Czech friends who recently spoke of their fondness for reading Dickens (Czech versions of Oliver Twist, Bleak House). One of my...
What a very obliging law enforcement agency that must be :D !!
Thank you both :)
I couldn't post a reply to the original message from Jeff and Dana, but I received an SMS from a friend in the Czech Republic on New Year's day...
Thanks Eso. That's what I thought it meant but I didn't (and still don't) understand why it was written, hence my confusion. Thanks again.
Could someone help me with this please? "Vůbec si Tě nezaslouzim". My own translation is confusing me!! Thanks.
Whilst on the subject of the "pravidla.cz" site (and I apologise if this has been asked before) there doesn't seem to be any logical order to the...
Another one to try is: www.learn10.com Register and they will send you (via email) 10 words per day to learn. Their range of Czech words is...
I have had Armstrong's "one small step . . . " as my SMS alert on my phone all month. I have just returned from another super week in Šumperk...
You have made me very jealous now, Glenn :wink:. That must have been truly awesome!! I watched the launch of space shuttle Atlantis first...
As a small boy, born in the same year that Gagarin became the first man in space, I found the whole space race thing in the sixties fascinating -...
That is still quite common here too - especially amongst sports commentators.
Thank you all for your help.
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