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I'm curious about the word order in exercise 3. Its the 2nd biggest obstacle for me when listening to czech sentences. Are there some patterns that you can teach us to anticipate? I think it would really help with sentences that are not in the typical english word order
Word order in the Czech language is something I have been meaning to explain in a couple of videos (I think one would simply not cover it) but I'm gathering information, experience and most imortantly, strength! The sentence you are asking about stresses the most important information at the end _(k velkým penězům_ - to a large amount of money). This is common practice in Czech. The time expressions (in this case _po smrti svého strýčka)_ could go at the beginning, but they are often pushed after the noun phrase. A very simplified answer about the Czech word order: The important/new piece of information typically goes at the end of the phrase. Imagine you asked: When did the neighbors get so rich? Short answer: Po smrti svého bohatého strýčka. Long answer: Sousedi přišli k velkým penězům *po smrti svého bohatého strýčka.*
@@CzechbyZuzka If you come across a movie/dialogue in which sentences are used with different word orders, analyse it. Is it predictable? Could you complete the sentence in your head before hearing it? How so? How can you teach someone to do the same? When the word order is the same as English, I have an easier time following the sentences, but when a different order is used I'm lost...often not able to find relate/analyse the sentence in real time and ultimately failing to follow long sentences with multiple clauses. If only i could practice 'expecting' the information.
@@TheStarlitfuse Thank you for these questions, they will be helpful when I prepare for this topic. I am sure many people will benefit from a video focused on word order.
Ahoj, Zuzko! I hope you still read comments to old videos. I'm struggling with a topic which is related to this. My problem is this: as a beginner, I learnt that "to go" is jít/chodit (jet/jezdit) and "to come" is přijít/přicházet (přijet/přijíždét). But later I came across sentences like "chodíme sem často" ("we often _come_ here"), whereas I - following that rough distinction of "go" vs. "come" - would have expected "přicházíme sem často". So, it looks like Czech "jít/chodit (jet/jezdit)" encompasses not only all of English "to go", but also some areas of "to come". Could you please make it clearer for me, maybe in a next video?
Thanks for this comment, this is definitely something I will cover in my next video or the one after. Yes, what you learned is absolutely fine for a beginner but, in reality, Czech doesn't make a distinction of _go x come_ as much as English. In fact, many Czechs, including me, sometimes struggle in English (also in Spanish, from my experience) to use "come" and "go" correctly. On top of that, the motion verbs act a bit differently than the rest of the verbs, as you might know. _Přicházet_ (just like _jít)_ is used to describe an action that's happening now (in other words, we use it for continuous tenses). So if you want to say: "We come here often", "přicházíme" doesn't work because it would mean "We are coming/arriving right now" and it's not so common anyways. You might think "Ok, I will use 'přijít' instead," but "přijít" is a perfective verb and therefore, it cannot express present. So, we use "chodit" which is used for repetitive actions and we don't care whether it's going somewhere or coming to the place we currently are. Let me give you a few examples: - Už jdu! - I'm coming / On my way! - Jana sem nikdy nechodí/nejezdí. - Jana never comes here. - Už sem jdou hosti! - The guests are coming here! ("Přicházejí sem hosti" is correct too but it's not very common, at least not in spoken Czech) - Češi často jezdí nakupovat do Německa. - Czechs often go/come to Germany for shopping. There is a Czech song for kids where they sing: "Já jsem muzikant a přicházím k vám z české země..." - I'm a musician and I'm coming to you from the Czech country. www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=6035
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Wow děkuji moc, jste nejlepši učitelka. Excited to learn a lot from your channel
Také vám děkuji za sledování!
Very useful thanks!
přijde mi tohle video zajímavé,Díky za bezvadné video
Díky, jsem ráda, že vám video přišlo užitečné!
Great lessons. No other teacher talks about that stuff!
Thank you so much for watching!
super, děkuji!
Děkují za video. Kde je jezero? Je to hezké.
Cảm ơn bạn nhiều.
Velký dobře
What a great lesson, and a lot of idioms, thank you!
Thank you so much! It was fun recording it with your help.
I'm curious about the word order in exercise 3. Its the 2nd biggest obstacle for me when listening to czech sentences. Are there some patterns that you can teach us to anticipate? I think it would really help with sentences that are not in the typical english word order
Word order in the Czech language is something I have been meaning to explain in a couple of videos (I think one would simply not cover it) but I'm gathering information, experience and most imortantly, strength!
The sentence you are asking about stresses the most important information at the end _(k velkým penězům_ - to a large amount of money). This is common practice in Czech. The time expressions (in this case _po smrti svého strýčka)_ could go at the beginning, but they are often pushed after the noun phrase.
A very simplified answer about the Czech word order: The important/new piece of information typically goes at the end of the phrase.
Imagine you asked: When did the neighbors get so rich?
Short answer: Po smrti svého bohatého strýčka.
Long answer: Sousedi přišli k velkým penězům *po smrti svého bohatého strýčka.*
@@CzechbyZuzka If you come across a movie/dialogue in which sentences are used with different word orders, analyse it. Is it predictable? Could you complete the sentence in your head before hearing it? How so? How can you teach someone to do the same? When the word order is the same as English, I have an easier time following the sentences, but when a different order is used I'm lost...often not able to find relate/analyse the sentence in real time and ultimately failing to follow long sentences with multiple clauses. If only i could practice 'expecting' the information.
@@TheStarlitfuse Thank you for these questions, they will be helpful when I prepare for this topic. I am sure many people will benefit from a video focused on word order.
Ahoj, Zuzko! I hope you still read comments to old videos. I'm struggling with a topic which is related to this. My problem is this: as a beginner, I learnt that "to go" is jít/chodit (jet/jezdit) and "to come" is přijít/přicházet (přijet/přijíždét). But later I came across sentences like "chodíme sem často" ("we often _come_ here"), whereas I - following that rough distinction of "go" vs. "come" - would have expected "přicházíme sem často". So, it looks like Czech "jít/chodit (jet/jezdit)" encompasses not only all of English "to go", but also some areas of "to come".
Could you please make it clearer for me, maybe in a next video?
Thanks for this comment, this is definitely something I will cover in my next video or the one after. Yes, what you learned is absolutely fine for a beginner but, in reality, Czech doesn't make a distinction of _go x come_ as much as English. In fact, many Czechs, including me, sometimes struggle in English (also in Spanish, from my experience) to use "come" and "go" correctly.
On top of that, the motion verbs act a bit differently than the rest of the verbs, as you might know.
_Přicházet_ (just like _jít)_ is used to describe an action that's happening now (in other words, we use it for continuous tenses).
So if you want to say: "We come here often", "přicházíme" doesn't work because it would mean "We are coming/arriving right now" and it's not so common anyways.
You might think "Ok, I will use 'přijít' instead," but "přijít" is a perfective verb and therefore, it cannot express present. So, we use "chodit" which is used for repetitive actions and we don't care whether it's going somewhere or coming to the place we currently are.
Let me give you a few examples:
- Už jdu! - I'm coming / On my way!
- Jana sem nikdy nechodí/nejezdí. - Jana never comes here.
- Už sem jdou hosti! - The guests are coming here! ("Přicházejí sem hosti" is correct too but it's not very common, at least not in spoken Czech)
- Češi často jezdí nakupovat do Německa. - Czechs often go/come to Germany for shopping.
There is a Czech song for kids where they sing: "Já jsem muzikant a přicházím k vám z české země..." - I'm a musician and I'm coming to you from the Czech country.
www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=6035
Myslím, že jsem přišel na video určitě.
Today I learned that you can use přijít for everything 😅
Then you listened very carefully.
Určitě jste přišel na zajímavé věty!
The more I learn czech the more I get dizzy 😵
That's natural. Even Socrates said "Vím, že nic nevím." I hope soon you will digest the new information and feel more confident.
@@CzechbyZuzka thank u for your kind reply and efforts to make it easy for us