"In Ostrava they say... something worse" LOL

@GxldenSpxrk7404

4 жыл бұрын

Well, I can confirm that. *Unfortunately.*

@pavelrak5766

4 жыл бұрын

You can use this pattern "Ty" + almost any czech curse word, and it makes a legitimate sentence

It is polite / good manner to say Good day when you enter somewhere and Good bye when you leave. Nothing more. Taking off boots - I can imagine to walk in my boots in my flat. It brings dirt to the interior. It is healthy not to have your feet whole day in the shoes.

"Wasn't in the mood for beer." You were dead?

@philipcooper8297

4 жыл бұрын

What's got 'merican beer and sex in a canoo have in common? They're both fecking close to water.

@muizzchughtai8163

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

The quality thing is actually true. For exaple fanta you buy in the eastern parts of Europe has much more artificial chemicals in it than fanta you buy in Germany. Even the eastern fanta has a really unnatural orange colour but the german one has a nice natural orange colour. But it's not really true that EVERY product has a different quality for the eastern parts of Europe.

@Miichal1337

4 жыл бұрын

I am pretty sure that more artificial chemicals are there only because Czechia and Slovakia have more strict laws to declare all components of product than German/EU law. I think it was also explained in one of the videos from Jidlo s.r.o. by Roman Vanek.

@VladimirLukele

4 жыл бұрын

It's funny cause Fanta in Czechia has more orange than Fanta in the UK :D

@Turtle1631991

3 жыл бұрын

I live in Greece now and Fanta here has like 20% juice and it is COMPLETELY different than the sweet swill we have in Czech Republic.

Please Ariel make a video breaking down your experience in Ostrava Brno and Prague (safety, culture, wages/prices differences etc between regions and what did you like/dislike when comparing these 3 different places

About the shoes at home. I didn't know about it untill lately. Someone commented about it, that they could have scorpions in house in US, that would makes sence if it was historicaly common in most states, but i don't think it is. So it's lazyness, not scorpions :) But it could have historical reson, like everything weird in US. Don't know how it's in other countries.

Love your insights on living in the Czech Republic. I have been here for six months and I am still getting use to the different lifestyle.

We have saying "jiný kraj, jiný mrav" (cca "Another county a different morality"). This is true everywhere. As for the obsession with beer, I do not understand too much. As a Czech I am glad that it has a name in the world, but just as you write many young people drink beer because it is cheap. However, from my childhood I remember going for a beer with a mug for Sunday lunch. But that was the era of communist times, where we served as a supplying country for the USSR, where they did not even have toilet paper (everything went for export). Yes, now it's more the opposite for the West. // It is necessary to say that the transport system in Prague is good. But sometimes it just doesn't meet the need for efficient transportation. However, this is obviously unusual for an American. Americans are said to be often stuck with their cars. But one thing you have in common with the Czech nature. Always complain about something. :-))))

Dear Ariel, taking off your shoes in the Czech Republic is practical and makes sense. People used to have large and expensive carpets in their houses in the past, and if you live in a country with 4 climates and 3 of them are muddy, you can imagine that cleaning muddy carpets after every visit to the house is quite annoying.🤥🤠

Your "Ty brďo" sounds perfectly native ... great job :) And to the beer topic - I highly appreciate your effort. Faking to like beer for 4 years is Oscar worthy :D I myself am not a fan of beer so I deeply understand you but during a Praque trip I was able to enjoy one or two 0,5L pints ... when fresh right from the tank it´s really good. And Coca Cola ... meh ... Pepsi is deffo better and Kofola is the best, more interresting.

Born and growing up next to Ostrava, I managed to squeeze mental "Of course" into the moment between "different language things" and "No, it's not what you think". For the foreigners:

good video, love watching these types by people who are living in my native homeland #1 !!! keep it up !

What about that witty sarcastic humour of yours? Is that a Czech thing or were you like that before ? :-D

@andrekelley82

4 жыл бұрын

I'd say it's another British thing.

You are the second American in Czechia on KZread who is surprised that we say hello to each other. Here is polite to say hello to everyone not just to the people you know. In small villages is even now common that every child who meats you will say hello (just because you are older and it´s polite to say hello to older people). It´s a way of showing respect to the others. Just because there is so much people in towns there is not so common to do that nowadays. If someone is doing that he is usually new in town from some small place. If you will come to somewhere and you will pass the people going to say hello just to your friend in the corner, all the people in the room will be watching you as impolite person. It´s probably cultural thing.

@abirwait5636

4 жыл бұрын

I think you are missing the point. In North America people say hello to anybody they meet let's say in a park. Ariel is pointing out something completely different. Entering a doctor's waiting room and saying Hello basically to a room, that's kind of crazy but it is a part of Czech "culture".

@drakulkacz6489

4 жыл бұрын

@@abirwait5636 You don't have to say hello to empty room. 🙂

I was almost moved, when zou talked about food from Germany and seid, they move their not that good food to us. And about the shoes, I think it is common in most of Europe and Will Smith does it and is bit riddiculed for it in US.

Best personal city transport is bike. :)

Very nice comments! As to beer: I think CZ women (especially young ones) drinking beer was not usual until the 90s. Being man in late 40s, 1) I don't like women drinking beer, but 2) I don't matter to them, so it's OK. But my wife and the women we are friends with (our age obviously) don't drink beer. I believe to remember that beer advertisments were directed to women in 90s and 00s.

God I love your sense of humor! That's a subscription for sure.

„Ty brďo“ would be coming to Ostrava from Slovakia by wild guess…

@drakulkacz6489

4 жыл бұрын

We used to say it before revolution here in South Bohemia too. It´s old and it used to be very common. I thing that people more stoped to say it nowadays.

@despe954

4 жыл бұрын

jestli chceš mít slabý internet tak Ostrava je ta dokonalá

@dandadanda8983

4 жыл бұрын

@Desperado CZ co to meleš?

@GxldenSpxrk7404

4 жыл бұрын

Mhm

@LudyaSka

4 жыл бұрын

we say it in East Bohemia too

S tou Ostravou me to pobavilo , jo pouzivame ostrejsi a kratsi vyrazy haha opet super video :-)

I am Czech and I don't like beer... Anyways, you pick up these habbits pretty easily. I lived only 6 months in the Netherlands before I came back to Prague and they always greet the bus drivers, like every time they go out of the bus, they wave at the bus drivers or even say hello or bye... I do it ever since even though I live back in the Czech Republic again...

@75yado

3 жыл бұрын

To moc nahlas nehovor lebo ta exkomunikuju :D

@THEAnnEla

3 жыл бұрын

@@75yado rodina už mě vydědila 🤣

Regarding the double standard of food. There is a double standard of food between West and Central/East Europe. In a nutshell, Centra/East Europe countries have more expensive food for worst quality. Why ? Because the companies don't have the same regulations in Czech as they have in Germany, so they can afford it. There is investigation by the European commision about that and "hopefully" will lead somewhere :)

Haha, I am from Czech Republic and have lived in your state, Ohio!

And I wonder who from Ohio ends up in Ostrava :) - isn't it like one rust belt region for another ;) ? I come from Moravia but currently live in Prague. Take it easy !

I am czech... I live here all my life... and I don't like beer... and I don't drink it :-D I preffer scotch O:-) I tried it for like a year... because it is cheap (true to that) but then I was like "why am I drink it when I don't like it" and so... well... I have like two beers in last five years :-D

Great video!!! It's such a change... I've lived in many places... Lived in Florida right before moving here... I still do a lot of American stuff here despite what everyone thinks... I still drive everywhere... Do a monthly grocery shopping and a weekly re-stock and still forget my coat every day cause I'm normally driving ;') Great video BTW check my channel if you have time!.. I also do videos about Prague

Small diferences doesn't matter by my opinion. US English and UK English is same, you just don't use all words and both sides prefer some other words then other side.

I do not understand how anyone can wear shoes at home in which they go outside ... for Czechs it is no ok. Second: pay fot tap water in czech restaurant is very bad and I hope that this will be better in future.

@OndraMike

4 жыл бұрын

why its bad paying for tap water...? water is not for free, the owner of the restaurant must to pay for that water...

@leenaslunicko

4 жыл бұрын

@@OndraMike In US is tap water free and is included servis in restaurant. And I thing that is right aproach. Drink in restaurenat in czech is very expensive and tap water witch pay 0,072 kc for liter there is sell for 50kc for liter and more and this is not ok.

@leenaslunicko

4 жыл бұрын

​@@OndraMike warer pay in 0.072 kc for liter ... ok so as it sell for 1kc fot liter not more. In US is tap water free and many restaurants would fail if they started selling tap water and did not have it for free.

@jandolejsi8122

4 жыл бұрын

@@leenaslunicko I go to restaurants regularly and I usually pay around 10 - 20 Kč for tap water. And it´s fine because the water itself may be cheap but they need to include the labor and washing machine time etc. In the US they include this extra in the food so don´t think you are getting free water. You are not. You are just paying for it eve if you don´t get it.

@bremCZ

4 жыл бұрын

@@jandolejsi8122 Yeah, nothing is free.

Dobry den a Naschledanou je spojeno vice s vykanim... ne ze bychom tyto lidi museli znat :) I am glad you like it in the Czech Republic and very good point about the German food, so true. We need to do something about it.

I think it's crazy that in US or Britain people walk in to a house or apartment in shoes from outside..it's disgusting..or getting in bed with shoes..ugh 😂🤢

I definitely felt out of place dressed the way I was (in my profile pic at the top of the Dancing House)), while the locals were bundled up. Also, big thumbs up that your video doesn’t have cuts every two seconds.

Well talking about the driver's license here it depends on where you live. You live in town or city?Then you need one as there's a higher chance of police stopping you. If you live in a village you just tell your dad to teach you and that's it.

Hi Ariel, one more thing that comes to mind. What about recycling? My experience is that North Americas recycle way less than Europe :) ... take care ;) ...

Why do you have a czech accent

@panvlk

4 жыл бұрын

My guess is she's pretending to be American to ride on the popularity wave of "foreigner reacts to Czech customs" videos. She certainly doesn't speak like American, her accent is very reminiscent of a native Czech. I stumbled upon this channel few years ago, I think she had some even older videos on the channel where her Czech accent had been even stronger.

@SladkaPritomnost

4 жыл бұрын

Well, you know we have a saying here in Slovakia that I would translate something like: If you want to live with wolves you gotta howl with them.

@zillaquazar

4 жыл бұрын

@@SladkaPritomnost I have never heard this but I like it a lot, I live in Czech republic now and I worry that I might start talking differently, I've already noticed my chance in choices of words

@SladkaPritomnost

4 жыл бұрын

@@zillaquazar That saying actually even exists in Czech language :) cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/kdo_chce_s_vlky_b%C3%BDt,_mus%C3%AD_s_nimi_v%C3%BDt

@mareklansky2948

4 жыл бұрын

That's exactly how it appeared to me, too :) The lady literally looks like a Czech (I love her eyes :) and has an incredibly Czech accent. I would have never guessed she was a real American :D

You are saying Hello and Goodbye to everyone in the waiting room or shop. Acknowledging that other people are in the area

No idea why I got this in me reco list, but cheers!

And what about using shower? Morning or evening?

I am czech man and i dont like beer too...i drink only when i want get drunk.

@SkullWP

4 жыл бұрын

Rum with coca cola is much better.

It's okay to not like beer, I don't like it either (or any alcohol for that matter). Guess I am not czech enough :'D

@IlGonfaloniere

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, me as Moravian I prefer slivovica. Very delicious.

You speak almost totally American, but then have these noticeable slight inflections of accent that are super specific to the Czech accent. When you say "Drink beer" at 0:41 with the way you pronounce your R's is a perfect example. Are you Czech by birth who lived a whole life in the US?

I am from Czechia and i don't like beer so 😁

6:00 block of flats = panelák ? IMHO... 7:46 what is "small IKEA bag" the blue one ? 😂

Judging by your accent, I would never have guessed you were a native english speaker. Do you get that reaction a lot?

You're cute, girl. As Mr Google recommended me your videos today, I've watched three of them in a row then - this one, driver's license and why are you in the Czech Republic. And the last one of them is the reason why I'm posting a comment: You are not in a foreign country, you've just returned, welcome back home. (As for my part, I can walk from Lisbon to Vladivostok without any need of a dictionary or a guide.)

I am Czech and i don't like beer at all. I don't understand why so many Czechs like it.

@MRLBRMNN

4 жыл бұрын

Please leave

Well, don't cry..

@hanslund2280

4 жыл бұрын

@@ukazuticestu2246 ??????. You don't have chance, shes not into small Muslim boys

@despe954

4 жыл бұрын

@@hanslund2280 don't be rasist Demoman gonna blow your house

Tohle devce narozdil od jinych americanu pusobi mile a sympaticky, ale nikdy me neprestane udivovat o jakych absolutne nedulezitych vecech lze delat videa, a to jedno za druhym. Cely youtube je zaplaveny videi o kulturnich socich, kdy se clovek nakonec dozvi, ze si musel zaplatit vodu nebo nedostal v obchode zdarma igelitku. 😂😂

My last name is LIPTAK that's not normal but im glad I have it cause in the USA it's not a normal name. Im proud to know where my family came from and im a hunting and fishing fool. Thats what I grew up doing and I always work along with drinking beer and smoke cigarettes lol. Give me a budweiser and back strap off a deer or catfish and a Winston to burn and im good to go.

I´m surprised no. 1 wasn´t a shower at the end of the day instead of morning.. that´s very usual for a foreigner. Nice video though :-)

Thanks, ma'am, what a clever video :-D. Why would you drink beer if you don't like it? We do have other liquids to drink around here. Of course you will hear sarcastic comments about it every now and then, but eventually, people will get used to it and move along. Not every Czech likes beer, but of course there will always be enough of those who not only like beer, but also like to challenge those who don't. And that's not our specialty, is it? Some people just don't like those who differ, human nature I suppose. I'd love to know whether it is really so important to speak British or US English, or if that's just another difference to get upset about. Most of us human beings try to understand and be understood and the rest, well, life's tough. That's enough of philosophy for today, thanks for reading :-).

I just remember where I know you from. That slightly ironic, almost Spock-like expression, Were you Glados in Portal (game)? :D

Speaking about not wearing a jacket ... have you never played outside in the winter.. at least as a child? I don't know how the life in Ohio is, so I don't know if it's safe enough etc. I am just curious :-)

You pretended to like beer for 4 years....and then took up drinking coca cola, nuts....

Off topic, but you remind me of Lauren German. :)

Well, just wanna tell you, actually you have nice understandable English, pimped a bit by British one, but nice to understand well. Thanks

Drinking coke in Czech Republic? Damn, that is an insult. :D :D :) Try local version, it is called: Kofola.

@igorbukovy4313

4 жыл бұрын

@@arielsimpleliving it is very popular, you can find the drink everywhere.

@SladkaPritomnost

4 жыл бұрын

It's only different grade of gray (the same sweet shit anyway). Better to take pure water maybe with a slice of lemon...

@igorbukovy4313

4 жыл бұрын

@@SladkaPritomnost sure.

@LucyMusic1999

4 жыл бұрын

I drink tea water and Kofola

@theresabanetova6076

4 жыл бұрын

I drink coke when I go every summer. I don’t like kofola. It taste like licorice

don't drink Coca-Cola drink kofola it's better and czech

@pavelp80

4 жыл бұрын

To be honest ... i was once at some cottage with friends, we had two kegs of kofola. After drinking like five of them per hot summer day and doing that for nearly one week I hate it.

This video was quite clever indeed!

I am pretty interested in the stuff you're talking about, it's good but please, could you smile some more, maybe be a little more positive? It would make the final video look much better. Apart from that I love your videos, I don't want to sound mean (pardon my english, I am czech)

@osvetlik

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think she's being negative, it looks more like she's concentrating on what she's saying, you know, business-like, get-the-things-done kind of attitude. But I might be wrong of course.

@Turtle1631991

3 жыл бұрын

I like it this way to be honest.

Beer is healing Czech nerves thanks to it natural chemical structure = Kingdom Bohemia = Czechia had been occupied for 348 years by 3 occupants before 1989 = beer has helped us Czechs to survive it psychologically = echo of this past is still in our Czech minds and thanks to it THE BEER HABBITS have been born ... Not ideal, but the nation has to survive somehow. Hungary in 1956 shows how difficult it was for an occupied nations to survive ...

The people you taught in the comments be like: 🙃

wow ms ariel at ostrcilova school Pavel Halamka

swedes take their shoes off too, and germans too (i think)

The food thing is just a theory

Lmao the winter in Czech Republic now is like only 1°C you don't even need a jacket for that.

@LucyMusic1999

4 жыл бұрын

We had no snow in our city this year...this climate change sucks so much

I like you much Ariel. :)

Interesting to see US citizen live in East EU country. And looks like you do very well :)

@lordwernon82

4 жыл бұрын

Its central EU.. Prague is more in the west than Vienna, and is Austria east european country? No its not

@jmsmilfajt

4 жыл бұрын

This is the classic comment most Czechs receive during a small talk with an American or a Brit yet it doesn't make any sense today. Czechia is in the EU, in fact, in the middle of it. Also in the Schengen zone. Countries here may have a different language, culture but in other areas are very much alike. No borders, no checks, shared highways, railway lines, shared projects, shared warehouses etc, etc... It's not like that you cross border from the east to the so-called west and there are brighter lights, greener grass, less trash, 10 times more expensive groceries... that was a thing before the EU and the velvet revolution.

I like your style... ))

Hi Ariel. What do you normally say in the US instead of "clever"?

@Tangerinka410

4 жыл бұрын

Smart ;-)

It's the landlockedness, it gets to ya. xD

YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR SHOE'S OFF IN US??? Like wtf

So...You have "Drank the Water"... and have. Years ago... When Caracas was "Exciting" late 80's thru Mid 90's... Teaching English to Venezuelan Company Exec's... Revlon, Procter & Gamble, Cyanamid of Venezuela etc. Life was... interesting... You never knew if you would return home... So... The common saying was "Every Day is an Adventura"... Have you decided to stay there until the end? If so... A rather interesting experience... can be gained by Preparing for "End of Life Transition". Visit a "Funeral Home"... and explain that you are "Not Cheap"... but have a "Question" concerning the "Costs" of Cremation. As you have a rather well developed sense of humor... explain that you understand the basic program... and costs... but you wonder... what is the difference in co$t between "Regular" and "Extra crispy"... Ciao !

Hii...

tyy brďo! :D top

@GxldenSpxrk7404

4 жыл бұрын

jep xD

EU said CZ is a eastern Europe (yeah right, central Europe isnt a thing to them i guess), therefore it's ok to lower required quality standards for food. So now we have worse food and it cost about the same as in Austria a Germany. I know many people (South Moravia) who live near the border that go grocery shopping into Austria.

📙💯

Týýý brďo ! 😛 You're a clever girl 😘

Dream Prague - much better ;)

i dont like beer either and not only i am czech but i did also used to work in brewery (didnt drink it already before i started to work there :D )

@SladkaPritomnost

4 жыл бұрын

Take a glass of red wine instead, much better choice.

You haven't tried any drugs, like MDMA?

BILA sucks, both Kauffland and LIDL are better

First day here... you're so beautiful.

hey that really get me.. classic difference between us and british is color (us) and colour (british). in ostrava they do not say something worse its not that offesive word like in other languages. u mean word "pičo" people in Prague use it too but we make it longer "peecho" yeah I know what i means in english "cunt" do you know whats probably worst thing u can say to someone in czech: "zmrde" means "u fuck" . Probably it will start a fight. Another one is "zkurvysyne" literate it means "son of bitch". We are Germany s worst nightmare and miracle since Charlemagne

you say "dobry den" to who ? " i dont know" :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Ty vole....česky

@robinbures1

4 жыл бұрын

proč

WTF in America you don't take your shoes off ? 🤮

You have a strange accent for an American.

TY BRĎO comes from Slovakia ✌🏼💁🏻‍♂️😅 youre welcome :D and its cool :D

Along shoes, americans should learn take baseball hat off indoor ;-)

Is this a psychotherapy ? "ODOBERAŤ" let see...OOOOhhh, You are from US... OK...

dont love beer => dislike for you, sorry

so boring