Everyone is so calm through out the video, and then there’s me getting overly frustrated because I sound like a dying Wookiee

@peanut1137

4 жыл бұрын

Helena Rosno me too 🤣

@caseycronan9217

4 жыл бұрын

Lol I really sounded like Chewbacca when I was practicing German Rs in college. “Rrrrraaaah!”

@triantafilomiriagos2735

4 жыл бұрын

My dogs just look at me while I am practicing, wondering what in the heck is wrong with me :D

@dominikuhlir2347

4 жыл бұрын

Awww it makes me so happy to see people interested in czech and Ř!! Yall doing great. It probably is hard and I like to flex in front of my foreign friends with words like dřevořezbář or řeřicha and so on 😅😅 tip for yall - just practice Ř for 20 years and you'll be perfect 😁 also, get ready for another challenge. Once you learn how to say Ř properly, you will notice us czech are quite lazy with our pronunciation and the Ř doesnt sound as clear as in the video when we speak casually. Dont worry tho, is you nail the Ř correctly, people will be stunned although you wont sound like a native. Its not that much of a deal really 😁❤ love yall 🇨🇿

@Orthuzz

3 жыл бұрын

wookies are cool tho

Watching this as a native Czech speaker is a surreal experience

@colwilpro

2 жыл бұрын

Like asking a cat how it walks 😁

@user-pc2tt7ky2p

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@katerinasykorova5709

Жыл бұрын

Přesně! :D

If I see one more person say that the "R" is easy I'm going to cry

@farkaslaszlo2777

4 жыл бұрын

R is easy

@caylee2529

4 жыл бұрын

SAME

@Dule708

4 жыл бұрын

Well, it is easy. :D

@iwannabeawitch

4 жыл бұрын

It ain't hard doe

@teryvitovcova

3 жыл бұрын

It's okay dude. I couldn't pronounce it correctly until I turned 5, and I'm native speaker

I'm Czech and it took me over 5 years to learn how to pronounce Ř.

@niky9649

3 жыл бұрын

co já ho umím od narození what I can do from birth

@jammmy30

2 жыл бұрын

I am Swedish and I nailed it from the first time. So, we are all different, right?

@jammmy30

2 жыл бұрын

@@niky9649 a co tam vůbec umit?

@nikystranska4942

2 жыл бұрын

I still don't know how to properly say it even after 18 years of my life even though I'm native Czech.

@quentr019

2 жыл бұрын

Je mi 13 a pořad to neumím 😭😭

thank Jesus I speak Spanish because the rolling r is easy. Now the Ř is another story.

@mikewellwood1412

4 жыл бұрын

Yes... rolling "R" is also easy if you speak Welsh, or for most Scottish English speakers. But as you say, Ř is another story.

@smartmouth8510

4 жыл бұрын

smartmout. eu eccelent Speech terapist tools

@Pidalin

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikewellwood1412 Rolling R is easy for everyone except English speakers and Asians. :-D

@User-dt1mu

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pidalin french and german dont have rolling R either

@Pidalin

3 жыл бұрын

@@User-dt1mu German sounds very different in every part of Germany or Austria, some Germans have rolled R, not crazy rolled like in Russian, but definitely not like in English.

7:37 For the Ř sound

@anne5664

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you xD

@user-uu4kz8sr5i

3 жыл бұрын

Будь здоров))

People here for r: 5 People here for ř: ITS OVER NINE THOUSAND

@asafschreiber7941

4 жыл бұрын

Over 25,000. Literally no one has problem with a normal R.

@cinnamonmew4373

4 жыл бұрын

@@asafschreiber7941 maybe chinese and japanese...?

@caylee2529

4 жыл бұрын

@@asafschreiber7941 I DO OMG-

@justme-hi5jv

3 жыл бұрын

I don't have to learn R and Ř :D I'm from Czech XD

@rhuanpereiramariae

3 жыл бұрын

@@cinnamonmew4373 Chinese, yes. But Japanese don't. It's the sound of ら、れ、り、ろ、る。

15:46 hahaha! dobrá rada

@lucinkaa7528

5 жыл бұрын

Haha c:

@VlogDoGio

4 жыл бұрын

Você ta aqui tbm, Gavin hahaha

@lauralaura6109

4 жыл бұрын

TadyGavin nebo 2 a pak další 2

@mgmatthew2009

4 жыл бұрын

@@lauralaura6109 no jo

@lamac1166

2 жыл бұрын

@@mgmatthew2009 máš pravdu dobrá rada xd

Thank you for this! I am an opera singer and have my first experience singing in Czech in Janácek’s opera Jenufa. This was so helpful.

@BecauseCzechIsCool

5 жыл бұрын

That's great Gina, thank you!

@alyanahzoe

28 күн бұрын

@@BecauseCzechIsCool hi!

Thank you! I lived in Prague for 3 years and no one ever explained the pronunciation of Ř as clearly as you! Diki~~ :)

@BecauseCzechIsCool

5 жыл бұрын

Tak to mám radost, děkuju! :)

Oh gosh, Gavin is pretty famous here in Brazil 'cause his channel is dadicated to teach English for Brazilian people. Glad to see him in my Czech studies suddenly.

@BecauseCzechIsCool

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, what a small world :)

This is the definitely the best video for learning the Czech R and Ř - and I have looked far and wide for this!!

In Hungarian we have the same “R” sound. When I was a child, I used to have difficulties despite the fact that my name is Réka and it starts with an R 😂 (btw my name really does mean river but not in my language lol)

@yk-lz3nr

4 жыл бұрын

Привет, Река. Nice name. My name is Alexandr and I can't say R correctly. But in Russian Alexandr has some short forms: Sasha, Sanya, San Sanich

@crazyd4ve875

3 жыл бұрын

@@yk-lz3nr in America it becomes Aleks (Alex) :)

@yk-lz3nr

3 жыл бұрын

@@crazyd4ve875 but we also have a name Alexey in Russian language. So Alexandr and Alexey will sound as one person.

@lmaocetung

2 жыл бұрын

In Czech, river is řeka :)

@JVerde853

2 жыл бұрын

And your last name means beard in some Romance languages. River beard

I can roll an r no problem. it's the "ř" that completely confounds me.

I was in Czech Republik for 3 weeks and because I was there for so "long" I wanted to be at least able to count in Czech from one to ten. With the pronunciation I didn't get any further than 3 and 4

@niky9649

3 жыл бұрын

easy jedna, dva, tři, čtyři, pět, šest, sedum, osm, devět, deset,

@josefmalar7837

4 ай бұрын

you may jump 3 and 4 and continue with 5 😀

The first "R" is easy for me because I'm Bulgarian and in Bulgarian is the same...

@jeyko666

2 ай бұрын

Im bulgarian as well but i did the czech R first try? It's really easy for me

Love the video! I am Czech and my husband is an Aussie. My full name is Kateřina ... he hates the letter , tried to make him say řeřicha several times ...nope, or Strč prst skrz krk! Jesus that's something.. he asked me if he was supposed to choke on his own saliva with this :-)))

Your students are so confident and well spoken, well done, and thank you for this video!

I'm from Sweden and studied czech 10 years ago on my erasmus in Prague. In swedish we use the regular rolling R alot, especially in my accent from Gothenburg. It was a big step for kids when they learned to say R. Kids were teased for not being able to say R. So apparently thats was not a a problem for me when studying czech. Many people in my czech class thought Ř was hard, but i just saw it like saying Š and R at the same time

I don't know why but when I was a little boy I knew how to say Ř but struggled with R, which took me more time to learn. Good luck to all of you learning Czech.

This Chanel is awesome because I'm from Czech Republic.

Awesome! Great lesson ! I am a Brazilian, as a portuguese native speaker I like to think in the Ř as RJ. Thus for the word Řeka, I build in my mind RJEKA, and I think I did it very well. PS: Great Gavin! We love your lesson and your connection with Brazilians!

@tekken.universal2343

2 жыл бұрын

Rj is not ř at al and Its wrong

@felipevidal5205

Жыл бұрын

@@tekken.universal2343 wrong is judging without knowing how RJ sounds in portuguese

@rain-cy6ve

Жыл бұрын

That s how I hear it as well but damn it s still hard to pronounce, no sound like that in my language

@kaplanboy

25 күн бұрын

​@tekken.universal2343 in portuguese, RJ sounds like the polish RŻ, still i don't think its the correct pronunciation

This is a great helpful explanation, thanks a lot. I love it!

Jak si procvičit angličtinu? Poslouchat cizince, jak se učí česky. Nevím proč, ale strašně mě to baví. Poznávám tak češtinu z úplně jiného úhlu pohledu. Nejlepší videa o tom má Gavin.

Awesome vid. Just what I needed to improve my pronunciation. Thanks!!!

I'm learning czech and really loved this video

@N3XX_

4 жыл бұрын

Rly?

@niky9649

3 жыл бұрын

how brave you are it's hard

Really like the exercises you used to learn the Ř! ♥

My mom is from Czech and I can speak Czech fluently but I still have problems with rsch.. I don't know how to write it haha

@imlit3036

3 жыл бұрын

ř

12:45 best advice. Looking up actually helps with pronouncing the r with a hat on it

Thanks for this! I had studied Spanish in grade school, but could never say R correctly until I took a semester of Czech in college!

Superbly presented.

We have an "R-ZH" sound in English in the word "VERSION". Of course our "R" is different, but maybe one way to tackle Czech "R-ZH" is to start with "VERSION" and then try to say it with a Czech "R". Personally, the Czech "R-ZH" is not too hard after a vowel, but it's hard to pronounce after a consonant, and hardest of all at the beginning of a word.

Ř is another level, I came here for R

Thank God I am a native Spanish speaker, so 2/3 of this is done. The Ř on the other hand....

At 10:00 in the video, Gavin explains the ř so well that I FINALLY DID IT. (So happy I almost cried.) Now if I could only say it in a word.

@BecauseCzechIsCool

2 жыл бұрын

Super!! :) Gratuluju!

I was was practicing the Ř for two week and thought that it still sounds bad. Then my teacher told me that I'm already better than some native speakers.

This is amazing, thank you!

@BecauseCzechIsCool

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

OMG I'm so happy a Slovak friend introduced me to your channel after I have been complaining to him how much difficulties I experience as a Flemish speaker with learning Chech on the Duolingo app and how much I am in need of a decent grammar book / lessons etc. This will definitely help and I,m looking forward to go through all the content.

@BecauseCzechIsCool

10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad!

This Ř sound is so difficult, I wouln't suspect it. I'm Polish and know Spanish so rolling r and zh (ż/rz/ž) are easy for me, but I can't combine the two together, my tongue starts to hurt heh

Thanks for sharing :) !

Studoval jsem Cestinu, vase lekce jsou dobry

Dobrý den, Eliška . This is an excellent pronunciation video. Děkuju mockrát))

@BecauseCzechIsCool

2 жыл бұрын

děkuju moc :)

Děkuji, pani! 👍

@BecauseCzechIsCool

3 жыл бұрын

Není zač! :)

LOL, I just embedded this video on Quora, in a discussion under my answer to "Why do some Swedish people have problems saying words that begin with a ”V” like ”video”, I hear some people pronounce it like ”Wideo”?" It's funny because Swedes' "R" is - almost like the Chinese "R" - almost the same as "L". So I hope this Jakob will see what a proper "R" sounds like. I liked your technique number 1, the mechanical one. If you want to say "R", you need to literally push your finger through your throat LOL.

@Eburiden

5 жыл бұрын

I, German, studied English at an academy for foreign languages. I can tell, we Germans (my entire class) have also trouble with your v - and we don't even realize it. Thank goodness our teachers were native speakers and corrected us

This is super helpful....please make one for the "ch" sound.....this one is pretty hard for me. I have heard people say pronounce it like "kh" but i find it only works in a few cases.

Hi, thank you very much for your effort. Please, could you write to me where I can see your videos for cases?? I saw only for Nominative??Waiting and thank you

I’m glad that I have my Russian р sound pretty good, because it’s the same. Ř is a different story

@yk-lz3nr

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Ж

@MyYTwatcher

4 жыл бұрын

@@yk-lz3nr Not really. If I am not wrong that sounds as "zh" / "ž".

@yk-lz3nr

4 жыл бұрын

@@MyYTwatcher I'm sure there is a tiny difference in pronunciation)

This video really makes me wonder how different we all are. For me all the “accents” in Czech writing is a big problem (but I can hear them and repeat most of them just from hearing once). Also accusative is a bit difficult at times. Otherwise? Czech is absolutely Lovely because one can actually HEAR most of the time what other person is saying, unlike say Danish where words have no beginning and no end.

Ive just started learning the czech alphabet tonight and so far this is helping me understand how to pronounce R. But i wont move onto the other for a while...

@foreigeanneamhspleach

5 жыл бұрын

I CAN FINALLY ROLL MY R’S!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. I STARTED ON FEBRUARY 23RD WITH THE METHODS IN THIS VIDEO AND ON MARCH 15TH I DID MY FIRST FULL ‘rrrrrrrrrr’ SOUND AND NOW I CAN ROLL MY R’S INFINITELY! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!! I want to learn Czech in the future so I came here to learn how to roll my r’s so i could be ready to pronounce both the czech r’s. I couldnt do it, but i kept pronouncing ‘TDA’ until i was able to make short ‘drrrr’ sounds. It became a habit for me. Now I can do an infinite ‘rrrrrrrr’ sound until i run out of breath. THANK YOU!

@Pidalin

5 жыл бұрын

I thought north german languages have rolled R

@thomasschulz8477

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pidalin yes but no, above denmark they have, in netherlands and flanders (although is more west) also and in the some places in north germany and pretty much whole sout germany

@Pidalin

4 жыл бұрын

@@thomasschulz8477 Yeah, I noticed that Germans pronouncing R very different depends on where they are from, sometimes it's similar to our R and sometimes it sounds almost like French R. I think our R is not hard, it's just normal R, not so rolled as Russian or Italian and not silent as English, nothing special. But our Ř is really special. :-D I thing only one language which has similar sound is Icelandic.

I think I got it! Oh my god! Thank you so much!!

oh my gosh I wish I can learn this

thanks for your fine explanation,it's not even challenging for me.r plus sh is a good method too. als a A2 Turkish speaker helps me too

Dutchie here, no problem with both :)

That is so much fun.

cool video bro now i know how to say R now!

in Polish we have ż and rz and they are both pronounced like Czech ž, now I know why.

I can't speak Czech and probably won't ever study the language in earnest, but I enjoy classical music and particularly like the works of Dvorak (no Czech keyboard for me). As a child I heard my Czsechoslovak grandfather pronounce Ř sometimes, but I could never do it. My best attempt for many years now has been to pronounce the 'r' and 'zh' sounds quickly in sequence, as I couldn't figure out how to combine them. Watching your video, the very first tip worked for me on my first attempt. I need to practice a bit, but this worked. Thank you.

@BecauseCzechIsCool

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome, well done!

turns out I've been saying it right this entire time and it was pretty easy for me to learn. I guess my Czech genes are coming into play, haha.

I kept practicing how to pronounce the Ř whenever I got on the Sídliště Řepy tram 😅

Omg I'm Austrian and glad that I learned to speak a normal R

@EndZee

4 жыл бұрын

Heidi P How long does it took you?

yeah the r is easy. i find myself doing it sometimes when i don't mean to, like in english when i say things like "put it in the fridge" it becomes "purrrrrrin the fridge." yes the ř is much harder though! and i have even read that our pallets are different shapes based on ancestrial language. i am mostly czech in my family though so i should be able to do it soon :).

@BecauseCzechIsCool

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure you will!

@cr0issants

4 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile I can do that one but not the rolled “r” 😅😅 let’s trade

That is very similar to Polish ż (or the digraph rz) but there is a difference.

Spanish, Italian, and Czech: *using rolled/trilled r Russian: *allow me to introduce myself*

Pretty easy for me

thank you very much for showing us the different techniques!! But now to something completely different: the colour of your sweater suits you perfectly!! (I´m into colours and how they fit people, lately:))

@BecauseCzechIsCool

2 жыл бұрын

Haha děkuju! :)

@alyanahzoe

28 күн бұрын

@@BecauseCzechIsCool do czech kids struggle with this?

The tongue twister of hockey names is Josef Kořenář. That hurt my brain when I first saw his name.

When I say "why did I..." quickly, the two d sounds in quick succession make the rolling r sound

Love your English accent. :) And you make the learning of Czech very interesting and not stressing. So tired of endless foreign language lessons by non natives, especially US pseudo-teachers with a flare not for languages but for two-bit theatricals. Keep up your interesting videos. Cheers and thanks from Portugal. :)

@BecauseCzechIsCool

3 жыл бұрын

Ahoj Migueli, thanks for your comment! I'm happy you like my videos and approach! Zdravím z Prahy! My English accent is far from perfect and I keep working on it, but at the end of the day I learn languages to connect with people and communicate and not to be perfect :))

@migueles4834

3 жыл бұрын

@@BecauseCzechIsCool Your english accent is wonderful, I mean it. It's soft, soothing and nurturing. Maybe it's the pitch and tone of your voice or the particular influence of your native phonetics, but it sounds very nice. And your explanation of Czech phonetics it's also very interesting and soft sounding. I've enjoyed your video very much. I'm from Portugal and, traditionally, portuguese people are said to have a very clear and neutral enunciation of English language, so it's difficult to place us in the map if you haven't heard portuguese people speaking before, but if you have, then it's easy. We also have very difficult nasal dithongs and phonems pronounciation, which makes european Portuguese a very difficult language to learn for other romance language natives. Strangely enough, there seems to be a phonetic similarity between portuguese phonetics and that of slavic languages. In fact, many people claim that portuguese sounds like Polish or Russian or any other slavic language. I have a question for you though: are Czech and Slovakian the same language or are there any differences that actually make them different languages with independent grammar? Thank you.

@BecauseCzechIsCool

3 жыл бұрын

@@migueles4834 Díky! :) Slovak and Czech are two different languages, very similar though. I remember not being able to understand Slovak when I was little, however, after years and years of hearing it around me, today I can understand almost everything without ever actively learning it.

@migueles4834

3 жыл бұрын

@@BecauseCzechIsCool Its the same then as Portuguese and Spanish, or Catalán and Spanish, probably. Different languages with similar grammar and phonetics, that you can easy understand one another.

@tekken.universal2343

2 жыл бұрын

@@migueles4834 BRUUH SHE DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING LIKE AN ENGLISH ACCENT SHE JUST SPEAKS WRONG

Ok, i got the hang of the ř quite quickly, but what i will say and i dont mean this to hate in any way, but woman at the end made me lose it again, for me mixing the rolling r and sh woked best, but everyone is diferent. Thanks for the great video.

Nejlepší❤️

We have this in Turkish too. 😮 We produce it at the end of words.

This is the first anything that's gotten me so close to rolling my r's! I was able to brrr for the first time!

@BecauseCzechIsCool

Жыл бұрын

skvělé! :)

In Hungary, we have the same rolling r, to be honest, before this video I didn’t even know other countries pronounce it differently 😂

dont worry, i am native speaker and i went to these special doctors - i think it is calles logopedie?, to learn my R and Ř and Š, i had quite difficulty with those, but when you finally get the sound going, you realize it is quite easy to do For me - i liked jazykolamy - tonguelockers - hard to pronounce words in phrase which is mostly consisted of them - i liekd to be thrown into this :D, tonguelocker i used was třistatřicettři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes třistatřicettři stříbrných střech - how you can see, lot of Ř - it is 333 silver sprayers sprayed over 333 silver roofs

@janboreczek3045

Жыл бұрын

How did You come from a single tapped r to the rolled one? This is where I am struggling, the best equivalent is somethong like ž with š, and this is at best

@josefmalar7837

4 ай бұрын

@@janboreczek3045 if you want to say R, just repeat the word TDAKTOR.... over and over. one day tongue jumps and will say TRAKTOR.

THANK YOU!!!! i've been trying ("trying" is the key word :))) ) to learn czech for a while now and we have the same "r" in romanian but the ř... good lord i had to say "st george" instead of jiři when i visited prague castle last week because i was ashamed of mispronouncing it in front of my old folks.

@BecauseCzechIsCool

Жыл бұрын

Držím palce!

Oh I know gavin, he makes videos too, about Brasil and portuguese

Jako malý jsem také neuměl vyslovovat R,Ř. Někdy v tak v sedmi letech (cca rok 1971) jsem chodil na foniatrii. Tam jsem se učil metodou, o které mluvila Eliška- místo R vyslovovat několik D za sebou. Moc už si toho nepamatuji, ale na jednu větu z mnoha jsem si vzpomněl: Na náDDDDraží pDDDDodávají hoDDDDké páDDDDečky. Čili normální češtinou věta Na nádraží prodávají horké párečky-

@josefmalar7837

4 ай бұрын

měl jsem to jednodušší, říkal jsem furt dokola TDAKTOL, až jsem začal říkat TRAKTOR.

luckily I learned Ř naturally! hehe

Yes podarilo se mi vyslovit Ř som zo slovenska

Thankfully I speak Portuguese and it's not that difficult for those who live in Portugal, since people here can make that sound.

Hi am from the Czech republic Budu mluvit česky Ř je hodně těžké i pro mne a r taky

@josefmalar7837

4 ай бұрын

opakovat slovo TDAKTOR furt dokola.

Great video -- thanks! This is really intriguing to me: I am 1/2 Czech (both my paternal grandparents) -- and I seem to have minimal difficulty with this sound -- and I don't speak Czech at all (although I heard it a lot as a kid)! I can pronounce it exactly as you do, pretty easily. Don't mean to sound like I'm bragging, but instead wondering if it has an anatomical/genetic influence. By that I mean, often people of the same culture may have similar physical characteristics, generally speaking. Is it possible that my anatomy makes it easier for me to pronounce this sound? I have no other explanation.

@MatttCZvLP

4 жыл бұрын

Probably just luck,I am entirely czech and i had to learn it as a kid :P

@soupertlh2674

Жыл бұрын

when we are young and still language grasping we learn to make the sounds of the languages around us, so you might have had some practice as a kid making that sound when babbling/learning how to talk. it's also a matter of luck, i cant make certain english sounds and thats my native language

Oh god. I was watch 8 minutes of how to pronounce roll r, and I am brazillian, I say the roll r, ever. Ahahahhaha god

So ř is basically identical to Polish ‘rz’ (only when ‘rz’ is at the beginning of words)

what about dě and tě ? how to made ď n ť properly comparing to de and te

ts exists in both chinese and mandarin languages

ř is a whole lot easier for me since the simultanious sh-like sound somewhat overshadows the fact I cannot trill the r. But just the r by itself is just impossible for me and I have been trying for many years. I do not understand where the r sound is actually supposed to come from if not from the throat. Just vibrating your tounge doesnt make a sound and a d-sound plus vibration does not turn into r for me.How can an R be pronounced if not in the throat?

Will it work for me? I’m from poland and I think that our languages are pretty similar to each other

@azuregriffin1116

3 жыл бұрын

I think I read that ř is found in some Polish dialects, actually, but I might be wrong. I'm English, and speak only English fluently, but I enjoy trying new phonemes, and I THINK I kinda half-have this one already. I just started aggressively saying s like fusion and trying to trill simultaneously, then I worked out how to get it that way quickly.

If you say ř I hear most of the time the ž. Puting a "r" before the ž is difficult. The question if we use ž instead of ř, we are still understandable, aren't we?

@rcl5555

3 жыл бұрын

Curiously, that's how Polish evolved. Historicaly, Polish "rz" sound was similar to Czech (the words are also similar: rzeka for the river, lekarz for doctor etc), but now it's the same sound as ż. Only spelling is different, pronunciation is the same, leading to misspelings like żeka, lekaż and vice versa. I'm not Czech, but I'd think that for a Czech person you may sound as if you had Polish accent?

Ř is essentially R but the thongue doesnt touch top of a mouth

easy for polish

Ahoj Eliško!🌄 Když výslovuju slovo řeka, já slyším kombinaci r+ž, ale když výslovuju , například číslo tři, já slyším tr+ši. Je to pravda?

@BecauseCzechIsCool

4 жыл бұрын

Ahoj Bojane :) Ano, máš pravdu, Ř ve slově "řeka" a "tři" je opravdu trochu jiné. Už se tady na to někdo ptal v jiném komentáři, tak ti zkopíruju svoji odpověď: "Ahoj Marcio, you are completely right, there are two types of Ř indeed. And it's great that you have already noticed the difference. Generally said, when we produce voiced consonants, our vocal cords vibrate, and they don't when producing unvoiced consonants. When you pronounce a voiced consonant, you should feel a vibration when you put your hand on the throat. Also, voiced consonants are difficult to whisper. In the case of Ř, its voiced version is much stronger and pronounced with more energy than the unvoiced one, which is very soft. If the voiced Ř sound to your ears as R+Ž (as in the word "vision"), then you can image the unvoiced Ř as a combination of R+Š (as in the word "ship"). Ř is voiced next to a vowel (řEkl, řÍzek) or next to another voiced consonant (B, V, D, Z, ... - Dřevo). And it's unvoiced next to another unvoiced consonant (P, F, T, S, K, .. - bouřKa, Přítel) and at the end of the word (kuchař, talíř)."

@bojanbojic9230

4 жыл бұрын

@@BecauseCzechIsCool Děkuji moc 🌄

@KaelSvalcembelk

4 жыл бұрын

@@bojanbojic9230 Toto je pravda. A dokonce existují děti, které "řeka" vyslovit umí, ale "tři" nevysloví. Prostě ta "dvě různá" ř se v hubě tvoří trochu jinak vzhledem k tomu, co za hlásky je před a za "ř". Podobně máme i dvě "n", aniž bychom si to uvědomovali. Jedno znělé a druhé nosové. Ve slově "piáno" vyslovuješ "n" zněle, ale ve slově "lanko" ho přiškrtíš v nose. A třeba takové slovo "panenka" obsahuje obě tato různá "n" zároveň. :-) Máme zajímavý jazyk. Obtížný a kreativní. Děda kdysi prohlásil, že "anglicky se nenaučí, protože angličani jinak píšou než čtou. Kdežto my píšeme přesně jak čteme". Tak jsem ho vyvedl z omylu. Jen v názvu města Tišnov jsou dvě písmena napsaná jinak, než se čtou. Konev, hrob, popelnice, spád... to všechno jsou slova napsaná jinak, než je čteme. Jen o tom nepřemýšlíme, protože je to pro nás samozřejmost.

I used to live in Prague when I was kid, I can’t speak the language anymore but I can still say ř just fine :) muahahahaha

If you are afraid to say the number 4 - čtyři - you can get around it by saying čtyri/štyri instead. Many Czechs from Bohemia often say it like that, including me.

Sleduji Gavina a tomu čeština jde výborně. Snažím se vás kontaktovat abych se zeptala, zda byste učila mého manžela? Je Američan a žijeme v Americe. Moc děkuji za odpověď, Eliška Tischuk

@BecauseCzechIsCool

5 жыл бұрын

Dobrý den, Eliško, děkuju za zprávu, moc ráda. Ať mi napíše na: becauseczechiscool@gmail.com

I'm Polish so when You say "Ř" i hear "Ž" :)

I don’t heat the g Sound in Ř when it is After consonants like T. Am I missing something?

@BecauseCzechIsCool

5 жыл бұрын

Ahoj Marcio, what do you mean by "G sound"?

@marcioviniciusmoreira4347

5 жыл бұрын

Because Czech Is Cool! Ahoj! Please let me rephrase it. To my ears the Ř Sounds like a mixture of the Czech R and the English S as in the word vision. But in words like tři it feels like the Ř has a different pronunciation? My Czech grammar says the Ř is unvoiced After an equally unvoiced consonant. What does that mean ?

@BecauseCzechIsCool

5 жыл бұрын

@@marcioviniciusmoreira4347 Ahoj Marcio, you are completely right, there are two types of Ř indeed. And it's great that you have already noticed the difference. Generally said, when we produce voiced consonants, our vocal cords vibrate, and they don't when producing unvoiced consonants. When you pronounce a voiced consonant, you should feel a vibration when you put your hand on the throat. Also, voiced consonants are difficult to whisper. In the case of Ř, its voiced version is much stronger and pronounced with more energy than the unvoiced one, which is very soft. If the voiced Ř sound to your ears as R+Ž (as in the word "vision"), then you can image the unvoiced Ř as a combination of R+Š (as in the word "ship"). Ř is voiced next to a vowel (řEkl, řÍzek) or next to another voiced consonant (B, V, D, Z, ... - Dřevo). And it's unvoiced next to another unvoiced consonant (P, F, T, S, K, .. - bouřKa, Přítel) and at the end of the word (kuchař, talíř).

@marcioviniciusmoreira4347

5 жыл бұрын

Because Czech Is Cool! Díky !

@Eburiden

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Marcio Vincius Moreira, for this important question! And thank you, Because Czech Is Cool, for this very good explanation! I've finally understood the differnce! ❤

For me i think the ř sound is like a mix of the french/german r and the ž sound

@BecauseCzechIsCool

5 жыл бұрын

But don't forget the Czech Ř, unlike French/German R, is produced in the front of the mouth, right behind the teeth - so try to move your R from the back to the front of the mouth to make your Ř sound better :) Hodně štěstí!

@nicolasdevalestone3085

5 жыл бұрын

Because Czech Is Cool! It is really hard then :( but thank you anyway ❤

@nicolasdevalestone3085

5 жыл бұрын

I think it is like the sound of french r but pronounced at somewhere near the upper teeth row, i feel it roll somewhere there, the toungue is not rolling so i did not notice that

8:47 Where is pr? :-))

Is it Russian рж linked?