Learn how to talk at a post office
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| INTRODUCTION |
| In this lesson we're going to take a trip to the post office. The post office in Czech is Pošta. |
| (slow) Poš-ta. |
| Pošta. |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| In this lesson, we're going to work on getting your postcards, letters, and packages home. |
| For most cases, you’ll say ‘I want to send this to [somewhere]’. Let’s say you have an item to send to France. You would say “I want to send this to France" In Czech, this is.. |
| Chci poslat tohle do Francie. |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) Chci pos-lat to-hle do Fran-ci-e. |
| Once more: |
| Chci poslat tohle do Francie. |
| The first word, chci, means something like “I want” |
| (slow) Chci. |
| Chci. |
| Next we have poslat, meaning “to send”. |
| (slow) Pos-lat. |
| Poslat. |
| Then we have tohle, which means “this”. |
| (slow) Toh-le. |
| Tohle. |
| Next we have do which literally means “in” but it can be translated as “to”. |
| (slow) Do. |
| Do. |
| And at the end, we have the name of the country, in our case Francie meaning “France” in Czech. |
| (slow) Fran-ci-e. |
| Francie. |
| All together, we have |
| (slow) Chci pos-lat toh-le do Fran-ci-e. |
| Chci poslat tohle do Francie. |
| This literally means “I want to send this to France.” |
| Let's look at the other examples. |
| When you want to specify what you’re going to send, you can replace the word Tohle meaning “this” with the item’s name. |
| “Postcard” in Czech is pohled. |
| (slow) Po-hled. |
| Pohled. |
| By using the word, you can say... |
| “I want to send this postcard to France” in Czech, which is |
| Chci poslat tenhle pohled do Francie. |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) Chci pos-lat ten-hle po-hled do Fran-ci-e. |
| Once more: |
| Chci poslat tenhle pohled do Francie. |
| Tenhle pohled means "this postcard." |
| (slow) Ten-hle po-hled. |
| Tenhle pohled. |
| Now let’s make a phrase using “letter”. In Czech, this is dopis. |
| (slow) Do-pis. |
| Dopis. |
| So “This letter” in Czech is: |
| (slow) Ten-hle do-pis. |
| Tenhle dopis. |
| If you want to say “I want to send this letter to France” , in Czech, you can say.. |
| Chci poslat tenhle dopis do Francie. |
| (slow) Chci pos-lat ten-hle do-pis do Fran-ci-e. |
| Let’s hear the whole phrase one more time: |
| Chci poslat tenhle dopis do Francie. |
| Now let’s try to send a package. In Czech, “I want to send this package to France” is: |
| Chci poslat tenhle balík do Francie. |
| (slow) Chci pos-lat ten-hle ba-lík do Fran-ci-e. |
| “Package” in Czech is balík. |
| (slow) balík |
| balík |
| So “this package” will be tenhle balík |
| (slow) tenhle balík |
| tenhle balík |
| All together we have: |
| Chci poslat tenhle balík do Francie. |
| Listeners, remember this word means “a package.” We’ll make more phrases using it in the next lesson. |
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