{"id":2898,"date":"2022-10-12T05:07:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T05:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www3.idioma.com\/\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2022-10-12T05:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T05:07:13","slug":"language-facts-czech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www4.idioma.com\/en\/language-facts-czech","title":{"rendered":"Language facts: Czech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2899 \" src=\"https:\/\/www3.idioma.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/253ae2db54b189a26c45a2ba005e6c3e8ac24c08-640x425-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www4.idioma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/253ae2db54b189a26c45a2ba005e6c3e8ac24c08-640x425-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www4.idioma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/253ae2db54b189a26c45a2ba005e6c3e8ac24c08-640x425-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www4.idioma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/253ae2db54b189a26c45a2ba005e6c3e8ac24c08-640x425-1-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With our production center based in Prague, Czech is after English and Japanese one of the most used &#8220;in-house&#8221; languages at idioma.<\/p>\n<h3>More popular as appears<\/h3>\n<p>Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers. &#8220;\u010ce\u0161tina&#8221; (= Czech), is the name derived from a Slavic tribe of Czechs that inhabited Central Bohemia in former days.\u00a0Today it is the official and main language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide (especially by immigrants in the USA, Canada, and Ukraine). Czech is similar to and mutually intelligible with Slovak, due to mutual history and decades of being a common republic: Czechoslovakia. Even today, many books or films distributed in Slovakia come with Czech, rather than Slovak translation or dubbing.<\/p>\n<p>Various internationally significant artworks in literature and music (especially opera) were originally written in Czech \u2013 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k&#8217;s Rusalka, the works of Alois Jir\u00e1sek, Bohumil Hrabal and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Since the integration of the Czech Republic into the European Union, Czech has also become an official EU language.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Str\u010d prst skrz krk!&#8221; (stick a finger through a neck)<\/h3>\n<p>Czech is considered one of the hardest languages for foreigners to actively master, due to overcomplicated grammar, as well as tricky pronunciation.\u00a0Some words, for instance, do not have vowels, such as zmrzl (froze solid), ztvrdl (hardened), scvrkl (shrunk), vlk (wolf), krk (neck), prst (finger) or smrt (death) and more. There are actually tongue-twisters based on consonant-only words, such as &#8220;str\u010d prst skrz krk&#8221;, frequently used by Czech wives late in the evening to check their husbands&#8217; alcohol intake. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Czech also features the consonant \u0159, a phoneme that is said to be unique to the Czech language and that is problematic to articulate even to some native Czechs.<\/p>\n<h3>Alphabet:<\/h3>\n<p>A \u00c1 B C \u010c D \u010e E \u00c9 \u011a F G H Ch I \u00cd J K L M N \u0147 O \u00d3 P Q R \u0158 S \u0160 T \u0164 U \u00da \u016e V W X Y \u00dd Z \u017d a \u00e1 b c \u010d d \u010f e \u00e9 \u011b f g h ch i \u00ed j k l m n \u0148 o \u00f3 p q r \u0159 s \u0161 t \u0165 u \u00fa \u016f v w x y \u00fd z \u017e<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our production center based in Prague, Czech is after English and Japanese one of the most used &#8220;in-house&#8221; languages at idioma. 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