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Zde prosím odložte židle na konci dne 🇨🇿
Hey, I randomly selected a language to go first and it ended up being Czech. I got a reply under my note: Ano! Yea! But I must admit I am reasonably certain it was a machine translation. I don't believe there were any Czech speakers in the class.
My friend was SUPER excited by the new language and apparently it sparked a good conversation in her class, she couldn't wait to see what's next.
Thank you again!
Pleased to hear that!!
The Ž is pronounced like the J in J'ai m'appelle
Děkuju
Luckily for all of us I won't need to mangle the language by trying to speak it (I'm sure my accent and pronunciation would be awful).
But I am glad to know about that pronunciation, I know so little about your language it's great to find out a little more.
Haha :-) Actually Czech is refreshingly straight-forward to pronounce – it's a phonetic language, meaning that once you know what sound each letter makes, you literally just string them together!
I am a simple, brain addled, English as a first language speaker in a majority English speaking country. I am afraid I would need to actively seek to learn further languages and there never seems to be enough time or mental capacity. I have infinite respect for everyone than can learn more than one language, especially when the languages they know are widely divergent or don't share the same language root. But I might have to give Czech a look and see if I can pick up a little pronunciation. Thanks again!