See I've uploaded a good 6 photos from the Cesky Krumlov (that's chesky for those of you who can't see there's a hacek implied above that c). Speaking of haceks (there should be one above that c in the word hacek too, it means the c is pronounced like the english "ch", while normally a plain c is pronounces like "ts" like the word noc, or night) Anyway, speaking of haceks, our Czech class is going well. It's a complicated language in different ways from how english is complicated. We've learned the nominative and accusative cases, and are currently expanding our verb vocabulary. I still can't actually communicate with anyone who doesn't speak english, except to say, as I learned from Pimsleur's Czech audio course, "Nerozumim."
An older man said something to me in the park, pointing at my camera, and after I responded "nerozumim" he kind of shook his head and said back, "nerozumis" or, "you don't understand." So, technically, I understood that he understood that I don't understand. But I do wish I could've communicated a little better.
I can understand a word every now and then overheard from the conversations in the metro. Like on the escalator, I heard a girl say to the guy she was with (presumably boyfriend) "Znas?" Meaning, "You know??" I have no idea what he knew, but I know it must be an object because you use "znam" when the thing you know is an object and "vim" when the thing you know is a clause. (the example our teacher gave was if you said "I know her boyfriend" you would use znam, but if you said "I know where her boyfriend lives" you would use vim) Sounds fun, doesn't it?
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Languages. YUM.
<3
I'm all about that.
Oh, yeah, that was me. And oh, yeah, my comment wasn't done.
But I don't remember what else I was going to say. >_>
I love you!
-HaLoMaSa
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