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Jennifer: Welcome to 3-Minute Czech Season 1, Lesson 12 - Asking What Someone is Doing. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to ask and answer the question What are you doing? in Czech.
Body
Jennifer: Here's the informal way to ask 'What are you doing?' in Czech.
Martin: [Normal] Co děláš?
Jennifer: First is a word meaning 'what '
Martin: [Normal] co [Slow] co
Jennifer: Last is the word meaning 'you are doing'
Martin: [Normal] děláš [Slow] děláš
Jennifer: Note the rising intonation. Listen again to the informal question meaning 'What are you doing?'
Martin: [Slow] Co děláš? [Normal] Co děláš?
Jennifer: Now, imagine you're speaking to a stranger. Here's the formal way to ask, 'What are you doing?'
Martin: [Normal] Co děláte?
Jennifer: First is a word meaning 'what '
Martin: [Normal] co [Slow] co
Jennifer: Last is the word meaning 'you are doing (polite)'
Martin: [Normal] děláte [Slow] děláte
Jennifer: Note again the rising intonation. Listen again to the formal question meaning 'What are you doing?'
Martin: [Slow] Co děláte? [Normal] Co děláte?
Jennifer: Here's a response meaning 'I am studying at home.'
Martin: [Normal] Učím se doma
Jennifer: First is a word meaning 'I am studying '
Martin: [Normal] učím se [Slow] učím se
Jennifer: Last is the word meaning 'at home'
Martin: [Normal] doma [Slow] doma
Jennifer: Listen again to the response, 'I am studying at home.'
Martin: [Slow] Učím se doma [Normal] Učím se doma
Jennifer: Here's a response meaning, 'I'm doing nothing special.'
Martin: [Normal] Nedělám nic zvláštního.
Jennifer: First is a word meaning 'I'm doing '
Martin: [Normal] nedělám [Slow] nedělám
Jennifer: Next is the word meaning 'nothing'
Martin: [Normal] nic [Slow] nic
Jennifer: Last is the word meaning 'special'
Martin: [Normal] zvláštního [Slow] zvláštního
Jennifer: Listen again to the response meaning 'I'm doing nothing special.'
Martin: [Slow] Nedělám nic zvláštního. [Normal] Nedělám nic zvláštního.
Cultural Insight
Jennifer: Now it's time for a quick cultural insight.
Martin: Remember that you can just use the word co, meaning what, if you didn’t understand the other person, but just with your friends or family. And of course you can also just say Co! if you are astonished or shocked. So co is a very useful word, as you can see!

Outro

Jennifer: And that’s all for this lesson. Don’t forget to check out the lesson notes, and we’ll see you in the next lesson!
Martin: Čau!

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