Hello all, My name's Daniel and I've just started learning Czech a few days ago with the BYKI software. I plan on studying in Brno in about a year for a little over a semester. I was wondering what materials would be best to learn the language well enough to understand and maybe even speak a little. I have been reading around here and saw mainly Czech step by step, Colloquial Czech, and a few others. Thanks, Daniel
Here's a couple of sites that can be helpful: http://www.fluentin3months.com/ http://www.bohemica.com/
I have a question, I'm using the Byki czech. For Dobrý den, It has two meanings, Good morning and Good afternoon. But early I read afternoon was odpoledne. Is this just a double meaning or a rule that I don't know yet?
It really means good day. Yes, David, I'm back. But I wasn't really gone that long, I only had 2 pages of posts since my last visit.
"dobré ráno" - "good morning" - when you wake up/ firsl lesson at school/ arrival to work. "dobré dopoledne/poledne/odpoledne" is usualy substituted with universal "dobrý den" - means "hello"
Adjective form changes with noun's gender. Den is masculine and ráno/odpoledne is neuter. Noc (night) is feninine - Dobrou noc. (and there isn't any comprehensive system to learn which noun has which gender, only a few hints in certain cases, you have to memorize it)