Some of our students who come to their first lesson of Czech already know some basic phrases. Mostly we hear “pivo”, “jedno pivo, prosím”, sometimes “dvě piva” or “dvakrát pivo.” To broaden awareness of Czech meals and eating, we decided to organise another Czech Night. This time the topic was “Czech food“. From svíčková to bábovka Svíčková (beef sirloin in cream sauce with dumplings), švestkové knedlíky...

Imperative in general is used when requesting, comanding or/and asking somebody to do something. To form the imperative, you need the third person plural (oni). drop the endings –ou, -ají or –í from this form what remains can be considered as an imperative basis. This basis can have one consonant at the end or two consonats at the end. One consonant: mluvit –> oni MLUVí –> mluv Imperative: (ty) mluv!, (my) mluvme!, (vy)...

On May 23 there was another traditional evening for our students of Czech language. We try to make every Czech night thematic and since on May 1 and 8 the Czech Republic celebrated a significant holiday, we did not have to look for a theme very far. We chose Czech history… or at least fragments of it. We began with a short presentation to prepare the present students for a team interactive game. It was a brief presentation of Czech history....

In Czech there are three genders: masculinum, feminimum and neutrum. Gender of nouns must be learned, unfortunatelly, by heart. But there are some tendencies that may help to remember the gender. NOUNS Basic rule (valid for 66 % of Czech nouns) is following: nouns ending at consonant are mostly macsulines (student, muž, pán, stůl, pes, chléb, počítač) nouns ending at the vowel A are mostly feminines (žena, kočka, Eva, taška, škola,...