The First Year of Wandering

dumplings, castles, and communism

[kidouyuuto-deactivated20140411]

how did they learn to translate languages into other languages how did they know which words meant what HOW DID TH

[brigwife-deactivated20240426]

English Person: *Points at an apple* Apple

French Person: Non c’est une fucking pomme 

*800 years of war*

[cernoknezna]

Hello. I am a born and raised Czech, and I know my ish. So, I decided to give y’all thirsty language learners some websites to practice your Czech. Pojďme na to!

Online movies and TV shows sledujuto.cz serialonline.eu serialy.sledujufilmy.cz csfd.cz – imbd but in Czech filmy-serialy-online.tv

Where do I get stuff though? uloz.to – movies, books, music, whatever your heart desires stahuj.cz – programs, games and other fun stuff datoid.cz seznam.cz – like google but Czech stream.cz – youtube but Czech I kinda want to meet people – there are obvious ones like facebook and twitter, but besides that lide.cz – a lowkey dating site blog.cz – a blog host dobyvatel.cz – a quizzing game (for advanced learners)

News lidovky.cz novinky.cz pravo.cz idnes.cz

Youtubers Klářiny knihy – books Rodaw, Knihánkov – books AtiShow – vlogs Stejk – vlogs Fallenka – vlogs Teri Blitzen – vlogs Hoggy – vlogs NaprostoRetardovaný – vlogs Jirka Král – vlogs and let’s plays PedrosGame – let’s plays Sterakdary – let’s plays FlyGunCZ – let’s plays Show Jana Krause – a proper late night show A playlist with lots of Czech documentaries  Cute videos about Czech history Music This is my youtube Czech playlist, it’s mostly folk and oldish music, though. Kabát – rock Mandrage – pop Ben Cristovao – rap/rnb-ish Jelen – Mumford and Sons but dumber Johny Machette – rap Ektor – rap Tomáš Klus – Ed Sheeran but Czech Sto zvířat – ska Vypsaná fixa – alternative? Xindl X – pop rap mixture Books, audiobooks, ebooks, blogs Spoken word Audiobooks – mostly classics PDFKnihy – pdf books, again, mostly classics Kosmas – you can buy books here but the link takes you to ~free~ e-books 1000 věcí, co mě serou – funny short stories Čili chili – an online magazine Jen pro muže – satirical comments on current events Fanzine – a magazine about fantasy and scifi

I’ll try to update the list from time to time, but for now, this is all I have. Feel free to ask questions, happy language learning!

[sandwichpress-blog]

Eastern Bloc Cartoons: Krtek/Krteček

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“Krtek was first to be seen in 1956 in Prague, when Zdeněk Miler wanted to create a children’s cartoon about how flax is processed. Miler wanted the cartoon to be understood in every country of the world, so he decided to use his daughters as voice actors, reducing the speech to short non-figurative exclamations in order to express the mole’s feelings and world perception. They also became the bottleneck of the creation process as they were the ones who got to see the whole film first, thus Miler was able to decide whether the message of the movie was able to get to children or not.”

[let-me-czech]

I had to say goodbye to my last host fam today...

[let-me-czech]

flight playlist

1.     america- simon and garfunkel

2.     jackson- lucinda williams

3.     in the aeroplane over the sea- neutral milk hotel

4.     mama I’m coming home- ozzy osborne

5.     green green grass- johnny cash

6.     far far away- wilco

7.     the traveler- harlowe and the great north woods

8.     first few desperate hours- the mountain goats

9.     leaving on a jet plane- john denver

10.  wish you were here- pink floyd

11.  two of us- the beatles

12.  the times they are a changin- bob dylan

13.  I was here- beyonce

14.  walk outside- milo and otis soundtrack

15.  I lived- one republic

16.  see you again- wiz khalfa

17.  coming home- diddy

18.  wayfaring stranger- oh brother soundtrack

19.  mother and father- broods

20.  home again- michael kiwanuka

21.  twinkle lightly reprise- talain rayne

22.  drops of jupiter- train

23.  mother and child- paul simon

24.  I don’t want to live on the moon- sesame street

25.  roses from my friends- ben harper

26.  here comes the sun- the beatles

27.  ramble on- led zeppelin

28.  ved mi dal- pavel bobek

29.  idlewild- they might be giants

30.  float on- modest mouse

31.  the boxer - simon and garfunkel

32.  this land is your land- woody guthrie

33.  back to cali- notorious b.i.g.

34.  home- phillip phillips

35.  lucky- jason mraz

36.  new americana- halsey

37.  home- edward sharpe and the magic zeros

38.  the big country-talking head

39.  moonlight mile- rolling stones

40.  home- dan croll

41.  west coat- lana del ray

42.  country roads- john denver

43.  homeward bound - simon and garfunkel

[let-me-czech]

Today, I went on a sneaky trip to Kroměřiž to visit my exchange friends. I got close to these girls when we roomed together in prague and stayed up all night reading palms. It was real hard to say goodbye, but it was eased by palace gardens, cucumber face masks, and lots of sad music. 

@hannaymarie @laskou

[let-me-czech]

one of the best weekends of my life, and it involved a lot of crying

[let-me-czech]

fml walked into a big patch of nettles

[let-me-czech]

why does the king of the netherlands look like a friendly donald trump?

[busterposeys]

at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents

[libby-on-the-label]

[lesbian-state-of-mind]

Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We kept it over time and Britain didn’t. What we currently coin as a British accent developed in England during the 19th century among the upper class as a symbol of status. Historians often claim that Shakespeare sounds better in an American accent.

[tyleroakley]

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

whAT THE FUCK

[nopeabsolutelynot-deactivated20]

I’m too tired for this

[nethilia]

Always add in the video that according to linguists, Native southern drawl is a slowed down British.

T’ be or not t’be, y’all.

[sogayitwrites]

Fun fact: Same thing happened with the French accent. French Canadians still have the original French accent from the 15th century.

Êt’e ou n’pô zêt’e, vous z’auts.

[monticellomarshmallow]

I’ve been trying to find this post for months. I’m freakishly obsessed with this and want the truth of what early colonists sounded like.

[rubykgrant]

they probably sounded like Monty Python versions of surfer dude/cowboys

[let-me-czech]

when u feeling homesick but also love your host country

[justpackandleave]

Part 1

“20 pictures to remind you how we cooked during communism in Czechoslovakia.  The frollowing photos will transport you to a Czech kitchen during deep socialism.  We believe that many Czech people still have lots of these examples in their homes or definitely in their summer houses.”

We enjoyed this article linked in the content source.  Here are the first 10 photos from the article.  We have a few of these items in our own kitchen.

[justpackandleave]

Part 2

“20 pictures to remind you how we cooked during communism in Czechoslovakia.  The frollowing photos will transport you to a Czech kitchen during deep socialism.  We believe that many Czech people still have lots of these examples in their homes or definitely in their summer houses.”

We enjoyed this article linked in the content source.  Here are the second 10 photos from the article.

[let-me-czech]

Krakow- a city full of fortresses and ice cream and pigeons

[let-me-czech]

spanish and italian: So THESE words are feminine and THESE words are masculine, and you ALWAYS put an adjective AFTER the noun.

french: haha i dont fuckin know man just do whatever

german: Oberweserdampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmützenabzeichenpoliermittelkanisterdeckelherstellungsverbandsvorsitzendenausweishüllenschneidemaschinenmotorwartungsplanaktualisierungsbeauftragtenzertifikatsausstellungsbehördenbeamtenkrawattenknotenbindeanleitungsautorenbürocomputertastaturanschlusskabelumhüllungsreparaturdienstfahrzeugsvorderreifengummibeschichtungsfabrikgebäudeheizungsrohrverlegungsmechanikerwerkzeugkastenverschlussklappensicherungsschlossfunktionstestverantwortlichenprüfungsfragebogenfragenentwicklerqualifikationsurkundendruckentintenpatronennachfüllpaketbestellformularankreuzkästchendesignerausbildung

english: *shooting up in the bathroom*

gaelic: the pronounciation changes depending on the gender and what letter the word starts and ends with and hahah i dont even know good fucking luck

polish: here have all of these consonants have fun

japanese: subject article noun article verb. too bad there's three fucking alphabets lmao hope your first language isn't western

welsh: sneeze, and chances are you've got it right. idfk

chinese: here's a picture. draw it. it means something. it can be pronounced four different ways. these twenty other pictures are pronounced the same but have very different meanings. godspeed.

arabic: so here's this one word. it actually translates to three words. also pronouns don't really exist. the gender is all in the verb. have fun!

latin: here memorize 500 charts and then you still dont know what the fuck is happening

sign language: If you move this sign by a tenth of an inch, you'll be signing "penis"

russian: idk man its pronounced like its spelt but good fucking luck spelling it

Greek: so basically we're going to add 15 syllables to every word you know and assign it one of 3 genders at random. Also good luck figuring out where to put the accents you piece of shit

Czech: so there is a word. there are 14 fucking forms of that word. also there are actually 42 forms. and here's a verb. there are actually only 3 tenses but who am i kidding, there is more and i don't even fucking know how many. the verb changes depending on one's gender. also you can change verb into a noun. that noun has its own gender. you can change any word into a noun and that noun will have its own fucking gender because who cares, only 10 milion people can speak with it. also you have to inflect all words. adjectives. names. pronouns. idefk. when you call someone, you fucking have to inflect that name. we also have a letter that almost no foreigner can pronounce. and good luck, even we don't friggin know how to write. also you can say a completely innocent sentence and it could be understood sexually beacuse our slang doesn't fucking make sense. good fucking luck fuckers.

[let-me-czech]

god I wanna live in vienna

[useless-switzerlandfacts]

In German you call cobblestone roads Kopfsteinpflaster which would be directly translated to ‘headstone plaster’

[uselessczech]

In Czech we call cobblestones ‘kočičí hlavy’ (lit. cat heads).