Discussing Language Abilities in Czech - Breakdown

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Lesson Transcript

Let's look at the dialogue.

When I read

I want you to pay attention to the adverbs

denominating names of different languages.

Find what the adverb is and see how it's used in the dialogue.

Ahoj, mluvíš anglicky?

Hi, do you speak English?

Ano, mluvím anglicky.

Yes, I speak English.

Now let's look at the sentence pattern.

This pattern will be the structure that all of our dialogues will follow.

Ano, mluvím language.

Yes, I speak language.

Now let's look at some speaking examples.

Dobrý den, mluvíte Česky?

Hello, do you speak Czech?

Ano, mluvím Česky.

Yes, I speak Czech.

Ahoj, mluvíš Španělský?

Hi, do you speak Spanish?

Ne, nemluvím Španělský.

No, I don't speak Spanish.

Note that we use nouns to name the languages

and that we use adverbs to say that we speak the language, like in this lesson.

Let's see an example.

Čeština je slovanský jazyk.

Ček is a Slavic language.

Mluvím Česky.

I speak Czech.

Also note that in Czech the names of languages are not capitalized.

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