CZECH REPUBLIC: THINGS I GOT WRONG!!
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In this video, I'll correct some of my recent mistakes so I don't mislead any foreigners and don't piss off any more Czechs.
00:00 Intro
01:09 Italki Language Challenge
03:15 A giant? king
04:54 The Ferrari of idioms
06:15 Czechs love nature
06:57 An unfortunate town
08:22 A Czech legend
10:11 My secret plot to hack the algorithm
11:14 Some sympathy for the supermarket cashiers
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Na dinosaury tu už byla zima. Ve skutečnosti jsme přijeli na Mamutech.
To byl Hannibal z Kartága, ne?
😂
@@JanKentaur Hannibal měl jen trapný sloni, který mu v Alpách málem pomrzli. Slované s mamuti už takovou chybu neudělali.
Hannibal na slonoch cez Alpy a praotec Čech na mamutoch cez Tatry. A kedže vieme ako si vedú Česi v Tatrách, muselo to byť tvrdé. ;-)
@@peterjobovic3406 A nezapomínejme, že v těch Tatrách měli na nohou jenom lýkové sandály :)
Penalizace pomalých pokladních v supermarketech se kompenzuje penalizací rychlých úřednic na poště. Je to skvělá hra, hrajeme ji rádi a jsme v ní skvělí!
😂😂😂
Ja si myslim,že veľa ľuďom sa páči tvoj kanál,tak tie komenty neber vždy vážne:-)
Když ona se u toho vždycky tak ksichtí , jinak je celkem milá a já jí i obdivuju takhle veřejně vystupovat . Když bude chtít ,tak jí klidně vemu na čundr ,ale spí se pod širákem . Takže asi chtít nebude ))).
"I would never make a dark joke about czech history."
The question is -Why not?
Seriously - trying to gain czech citizenship without black humour? Are you nuts? :D
Svatá pravda.
DArk humor is something, what alow this nation to survive. No ocupation force in history wasnt succeful to wiping that out. And they tried.
@@zdenekmutina2188 Národ cyklistů. Nahoře se hrbí a dole kopou.
The revelation of the secret plot to hack the algorithm sounded very plausible! ;-)
😂
I agree that was hilarious
Hm, I wonder how Jen came up with this idea 🤔🤔🤔
@@katerinaneoralova8403 Na každém šprochu pravdy trochu...
Yes, it's a very devilish cunning plan! She's been planning it for years!
Jsi skvělá Jen. PS.: Ty komentáře si tak neber , protože 1) Češi rozumí úplně všemu . 2) Pokud něčemu nerozumí , platí bod číslo jedna.
Tvůj komentář dokumentuje přesně to, co pro Čechy platí skutečně: vyznačují se moderním, jakože zápaďáckým, sypáním si popela na hlavu a ponižováním se. Aneb kdo tak činí, ten je lepší něž běžní Češi, ten zná cestu, jak se vyrovnat nadlidem, že?
A hlavně Češi všude byli a všechno znaj. :-)
@@Pidalin a někteří všude byli 2x a od všeho maj klíče...hahahahahaha
@@petex3909 a na každýho maj číslo jako ten elf se špičatejma ušima co nám vládne
@@petex3909 ...do "řiti" píšem a "hovno" nám příjde...
The Lidice joke was amazing, the fact it was accidental is even better :D :D :D I am laughing so hard. Dark humor is so Czech, so dont apologize.
Za ten vtip s Lidicema se nemusíš omlouvat. Ten byl absolutně legendární.
Naše historie je mnohdy natolik temná, že žádný vtip nemůže být dost černý, aby se jí vyrovnal. Takže žádný strach z černého humoru, a jak se říká, "legrace musí být, i kdyby fotra věšeli" :-)
Černý humor je jako nohy, někdo ho má a někdo ne.
@@KacikZ Spis koule-v dnesni dobe
@@KacikZ Ten byl dobrej 😂👍🏻
Your Lidice remark in the original video almost made me spit my tea 😄 Sooner or later Czechs turn every tragedy into jokes. Great coping mechanism, I reckon.
Čau Lidice je meme materiál.
And you know what? The person whose assassination caused destroying od Lidice, called Czechs "laughing beasts" and that is really what we are, we were born with dark humor.
pred koncom roka by bolo skvelé vidieť jedno video v češtine a zhodnotiť tvoj pokrok, mimochodom ironické videá ti idú dobre.
Udělám to!
@@DreamPrague Fascinating, you're catching up with Slovak language as well!
Thanks for the laugh Jenn 😂! Please more of these low-key roasting vids 🔥
Moc prosím, historická data a historické vtipy dávej i nadále! My domorodí Češi sice každého rádi opravujeme, když náhodou zrovna něco víme, ale to není ve zlém. Nás to prostě baví, a černý humor skoro nejvíc. Však už jsi nás docela dost prokoukla, jak je vidět z těch tvých videí. Byla by škoda to měnit, nám se to líbí takhle.
Just a tip for degrees °C -> start at 0 and go by 10 in each direction (+ cold, warm, hot, extreme / - very cold, freezing, extreme)
- 30 = arctic extremes
- 20 = bone-freezing
- 10 = very cold
*0 = water freezes, chilly
10 = cold
20 = warm
30 = hot
40 = hot extremes
So you know 12 °C is somewhat between cold and warm but closer to cold, 28 is practically hot summer, 35 approaches extremes, 5 is quite cold, 0 is freezing temperature, - 5 is somewhat normal winter cold while - 27 is stay at home and consider burning some furniture cold.
No need for self shaming, Jen. Thanks for making videos for foreigners to learn about Czech culture!
My pleasure!
Hi Jen, I really like that you read the comments and you respond to a lot and that you care about feedbacks 👍
I do! I read them all.
@@DreamPrague you are amazing 👌
Příliš si to neber a všechny ty rejpaly ber s nadhledem :-) A díky za tvá videa ;-)
"Bye Lidice!" Oh that one was good back than and it still is today! It's kind of said it wasn't meant as a joke because us Czechs (at least me) we love dark jokes and this one is morbit whitch we (at least me again) love even more. In return (and because is Helloween season) you can terrify some of your American friends by this joke: What is a difference between dark joke and morbit joke? Dark joke is ten children in one trashcan. And morbit joke is one child in ten trashcans.
Přesně, tento náhodou vzniklý vtip mě moc pobavil a ani mě nenapadlo se kvůli tomu zlobit.
@@sirkritoun Jop, k dokonalosti tomu chybí už jen "Bye Ležáky!" 🤣
... And czech joke is about ten trashcans in one child...
Adolfe, už jsi viděl Lidice?
Ne Reinarde, vypal mně to.
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Ty jsi vůl, Reinharde, myslel jsem, že mně vypálíš film na DVD a ne že vypálíš celé město!!
@@cadbad4358 Nejvtipnější na tomhle vtipu je, že si Adolf myslel, že Lidice jsou město.
"spletla" or "nespletla" you made my day again.. as always ;) you rock girl ;)
😂😂😂Nice one. The not-so-subtle sarcasm is quite adorable
And 👏👍for the cashier insight
I love your videos. Coming over this Sunday. Your videos gave confidence!!! Keep going, great job, lady!
Jen, i like your sense of humor and your irony. And when the target of your irony are we - the Czechs, then we can be sure we've deserved it! 😁👍🏻
We love you ❤️
Great video, as usual. I'd love to give you a little bit different point of view. See, many Czechs, including me, don't point out other people's mistakes out of bad spirit. They don't try to let you know that you're stupid or humiliate you. What it is in many cases, including myself, we're trying to "educate" you (in positive way) so you don't have to repeat the same mistakes, make a bad judgment or an opinion based on misunderstanding of the subject.
In a matter of fact, I missed this very annoying thing after I moved over to America. I was in similar situation like many Americans abroad. I couldn't speak the language, I barely understood spoken English and when I tried, and said something wrong(ly), very rarely Americans pointed out my mistakes in pronunciation or meaning of the words or phrases. That inadvertently prolonged my learning time since I never learned English in the school or taken any kind of classes. All I had was "Česko - Anglický/Anglicko - český kapesní slovník".
If someone corrects me, I consider it a free lesson that saves my time and saves me from feeling embarrassed later, when I realize what I said wrong.
Of course, there always will be people, who have to comment nasty things so they can feel better about themselves. Although I believe that nobody can satisfy this kind of people no matter how good you are.
I hope you'll take this comment in a positive way, the way I meant it.
I'm in Prague now, and it's so interesting watching your videos now that I'm here. It feels so much more personal. Btw, I love this city 💙. It feels special.
I have so much respect for those who own up to their mistakes and correct it where they can and move forward. Sadly this is a quality that seems to be fading in humanity. Well done Jen and thanks for the content as always 👍🏻🍻
Love the low key roasting.
What does *low-key roasting* mean?
@@marketcernikova7024 low key roasting means indirect roasting
Spicy low key roasting is the Czech way of life.
The Czechs: high key literal roasting in the garden. Jen: low key Czech roasting in vids
I love how you own your mistakes, amazing video as always
Great and amusing! Thanx, Jen!
Super video. Teším sa na ďalšie.
Jen you are awesome !! As a Czech refugee living in US for over 30 years I appreciate your videos. They make me laugh and I know what a culture shock is and how not easy is to learn other country history , language and just day to day life. I wish I would write a diary 30 years ago, since I don’t remember all the differences anymore. You remind me the live I would have had if I lived there.
Stay being yourself and keep your videos going, they make my day.
Viděl jsem všechna Tvá videa a musím říct, že středa je nejlepší den v týdnu. I dnes jsem se nemohl dočkat a děkuji Ti za příkladnou práci a profesionalitu - každou středu nové vtipné video. Mnozí z nás mají ve středu (dle pořekadel) radost z něčeho jiného - já ji mám díky Tobě. Děkuji 👍
Enjoyable video! I like your humour and it's good that you appreciate the corrections. We all make mistakes and your videos are high quality content even if some inaccuracies appear.
I’ve seen quite a lot of your videos but this one really made me laugh out loud. Probably your best out yet :)
ps. Totally funny a second time too
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@DreamPrague A great video. :-)
You are awesome Jenn, keep up the good work🙂
Thanks Thomáš!
Nádherné a opět velmi zábavné, Díky.
Early medieval Czechs' dromaeosaur cavalry was legendary, even their frenemy buddies over the border in Great Moravia had respect for those beasties. Forefather Czech knew where to buy formiddable mounts. ;-))
(More seriously, while the Forefather Czech legend is just a medieval legend - later further elevated by early Czech patriots - its events would have had to take place between the 5th and 9th century, in Czechia's early medieval period, before the formation of the Kingdom of Bohemia.)
Love it ! The secret of the CZcams algorithm is great!🤣 Czech do like to critise and correct and are especially touchy about foreign people getting the history wrong. I've been in the UK for 14years now and always quick to correct when people were saying I'm from Czechoslovakia or something similar :) I've eased up on them a bit now, it doesn't surprise me anymore
Oh tell me, Czechoslovakia or Chechna 🤦♀️
Anyway, we cannot blame Britons, their education is not as good especially regarding geography and history. They know only bits od their own history. It would be interesting to know who likes the fact/who benefits from when citizens have a lack of general knowledge.
In school we had a guy from USA and we kind of made fun of him when he was completely clueless about capital cities in Europe. Then he challenged us with capitals of States. We apologized. And then we made fun of us. And him, because he didn't know the capitals of European countries.
Great topic for a vlog after all these years, Jen. You made me look up my comment from your "Idioms" vlog. Maybe "that's the ticket" is from a bygone era, or just a Philly slang (that's where I picked it up.)
Lol - the best video I have seen from you. And your Ř is astonishing.
Jako vždy skvělé.⭐😀⭐
Omg, Jen! Of course they weren't riding dinosaurs. I know that the photos from the event can be litle confusing, but forefather Čech clearly stated for that BBC interview that they were dragons.
Watching Jen and her humour always makes me laugh. 😊
“Of a legend..!” - now you are a legend Jen 😂👍🏻
As with many other things and people in Czechia, If we would not have them for real, we would have to make them up. I'm so happy we have you for real, Jen. 👍
Jen, thank you, thank you, thank you. As a New Yorker I love your Brooklyn accent. Keep on doing these just as you do. Your humor is appreciated 😄
Great video! Whenever I was living in Europe, getting used to metric took a bit to get used to, but I gave myself guidelines for weather.
30 Celsius: great summer day, but any hotter and it’ll suck.
20 Celsius: very pleasant! To be the best temperature
10 Celsius: Probably good idea to wear a fall jacket unless you like the violet feeling.
0: jacket please!
I just love your humor! This video is great. Materpierce. 🤣🤣🤣
Sorry for being pedantic, but Lidice were and are only a village, not a town. I know that in USA you call every settlement with multiple buildings a town, but there is something called a village. Any settlement with less than (if I recall correctly) 3000 inhabitants is just a village and Lidice with 500 is definitely a village.
I am not sure about the exact rules any more, but population is surely not the only prerequisite to being a town instead of a village. I think having a church and a town hall were on the list to even apply, but I think nothing makes a town automatically, there is a process of applying for and granting the town status. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvrdo%C5%A1ovce The biggest village in (Czecho)Slovakia.
Moc ráda se na tvoje videa dívám. Přijde mi fajn, podívat se, jak nás vnímají cizinci :) Nadhled a tolerance, to nám možná někdy chybí
I love your sense of humor!
Hi Jen, as usually - great video and I have to say - your "Hello Lidice - Goodbye Lidice" has been making me laugh for weeks :-))))))))
Oh no! Truly dark, but truly a mistake!
Praotec Čech na dinosaurovi 🤣😘 Roztomilé. A jako vždy Super video. 👍 A k těm drobným nepřesnostem v minulých vydáních - nu vždyť "chybami se člověk učí". Díky a hodně zdaru. 🌞
Love all your vids :)
Thanks so much!
Your comments in the beginning of the video were full of sarcasm. Nicely done!! You're becoming true CZECH. Congratulations 😉
Vtipné! 👍 A máš perfektní "Ř". 👍
I love your various views and opinions. I have to give you a lot of credit for being as objective as one can be in your situation. It takes a lot of courage and effort to do what you're doing voluntarily and you're backing it up by living in Praha for the past 9 years.
I guess you're finding there is another Czech characteristic called “hnidopich” meaning that some people will find wrong under any circumstances and then “over-analyze” it w/o any context. It could be the result of grim experience with the hordes of invaders throughout the history and consequently harsh life for the common man. However, just returning from Czechia I am encouraged by the young and enterprising people who give me hope for future of the republic.
Jen, I had to seen it again, and again as all your videos. It´s an excelent job...
back to 6th chapter, when you explaned your accident with Lidice
yeah, you´re right, about that wilcoming/goodbye signs, it´s one of the jokes in the movie 2Bobule (I can only recomended)
if I remember it well, there was a willage Višňové(???) - type of name it could be dozen of them even in Moravia region and they are all small/tiny
I must admire your amazing work with all of our comments. Most of the youtubers just read comment, that wants to correct them, and only leave something like "Yeah, my mistake" if they know, they were wrong. But you go next step further and make a SEPERATE VIDEO about apologizing for your mistakes and then you all correct them! Thats amazing. How Czech would say: "Klobouk dolů" ;-)
Boží video 😂👍🖤
Spot on as allways👍😁
:D I love your sense of humor.
I didnt even know that about the cashiers, thank you for info! :)
Super vtip a nadhled.. ten konec sedí jak p.... na hrnec 👍😉
Bude Jen rozumět tomuto idiomu? :D
Ha, ha, ha, awesome 👌 Jen! Right on! Don't get discouraged by any comments, do your thing, your intelligence, wit and curiosity will always win!
Jen, your videos are awesome! Forget about criticizing comments.
Tvoje videa se mi moc líbí. Vždy. 👍
Another great video of yours, Jen. Thank you for making them! I don't know if I could handle all those correcting comments as easily as you do. But, since you're obviously so good at it, I'm going to - guess what - correct you! 😜 Not to point out how wrong you are, but to help you sound that more Czech. I've been thinking about correcting you on this one for some time, as I've noticed that it's something that you do in all your videos. It's just a tiny little thing, but I think getting it right will make you sound so much more natural in Czech. It's the way you pronounce the letter "d" in "Uvidíme" at the end of your videos, when you say Uvidíme se příští týden. That one gives you away right away. You pronounce it as if it was spelled "Uvidýme". Your "d" sounds hard, but it's supposed to be soft. For what it's worth, this is the international phonetic symbol for it, ɟ - as in the word ďábel (devil). I'm not a teacher and can't explain this better, but I'm sure your italki teachers can help you with this. I know there's no such sound in English, so while it may seem very easy to us Slovaks and Czechs, it's probably not so easy for you. But if you perfect this one, it will make a difference.
You could also try saying, e.g. Tak zase za týden! Ahoj! (lit. So again in a week! Bye! - meaning "So (I'll see you) again in a week, bye), or some other variations. But... one step at a time ;)
I love these videos. Your jokes
Hi Jennifer,
Sir_Mac here, as always!
I wonder, isn't paní Bulšitová a wife of Jára Cimrman? :-) I think they would form a perfect couple, a great match.
Jennifer, I know that seeing the same correction 100x times, over and over again, it must make you crazy / angry. But I offer you some lovely and positive explanation for that, why we do that. Everyone, who makes the same correction, he or she cares about. Some of us like you, some of us even love you (in a decent way, obviously), because you perfectly blended to the Czech republic. You are humble, you offer great content in your videos, you want to become a czech citizen, you are working on your czech, which is better and better. And because we do care about, we want you to be the best as possible.
Let me give you one - you if you would mention, you hurt yourself and you don't have a single plaster at home, I think the audience would send you thousands of plasters, if they knew your address. You would receive so much plasters that you could open your own pharmacy.
And one tip when you pack your things in any czech supermarkets. Put the groceries and everything you want to buy on the lane in order, how do you want it to be packed. So when Honza re-collects everything and puts it in the bags, it comes to him in logic order. Heavy / glass / packed things first, light or fragile things on top. A pack of potatoes comes down to the bag, than comes strawberries and rohlíky on top...
Ahoj Sir Mac! Great tip on the supermarket packing...I also think my new strategy is just to reload everything back into the basket and then pack my bag in peace on the shelf by the door. I've been resisting, but now I have more sympathy for the Cashier. Oh yes, she and Pán Cimrman would make beautiful music together.
It's a lovely thought, receiving hundreds of plasters in my mailbox. It warms my heart actually. Thank you for rooting for me on the adventure!
@@DreamPrague Reading it I don´t know now - have you switched Jára Cimrman for Bob Dylen?
@@DreamPrague yeah, use the best strategy. I worked out perfect timing for lane setup, that I´m faster with recolllecting than cashier even in Lidl (who have the fastest cashiers). I thought it´s known in general, that cashiers are evaluated by bpm (beep per minute) rate. You can notice, that cashiers tend to beep separately every single item even if these are the same (if not packed, what would slow down the process) - because it´s simple trick how to raise bpm rate. You can make a small experiment - buy ten small items, with easy to read barcode (no Chuppa Chups lolllypop hehe), put them on the line together and don´t pack them in the small bag. Logically, it would be easier to count them and beem once. But most of the cashiers will beep one by one. For exactly this reason.
@@DreamPrague That's how i do it. Otherwise i am too slow. Pissed people (usually elders), poor cashier trying too keep her job and "superhag" aka "vedoucí" watching.
Skvělé video 😘👍
3:20 I'd adjusted to imperial system without a problem and then the light went up and we switched to common sense. But after 50 years of metric system in Canada, some people still convert everything to imperial (British imperial units, not the US, which is another topic for scratching your head).
Hey Jen, another video which can only be considered as great. Your Czech is better and better with every next video and the following is by no means to doubt it. My one and only reason to mention it is to help you out a bit with pronunciation. At 4:12 you talk about loket - loket is said like "lock at". You´ve been doing a great job with your vids - do not stop. Jenda
I love that this channel has sponsors. Go get it girl!
Well that's nice to hear, thanks for your support!
@@DreamPrague Have you ever heard about patreon? :)
😂 I enjoyed this one!
Yay! Thank you!
good one on the dinosaurs! Had a good laugh - love your humour. (I’m partly Czech, but I won’t point out any “errors”…LOL. I’m also Canadian, so I’m very polite - but torn.) 😉
Just btw... I'm always looking at your monstera instead of at you... any house plant tour in making? 🤣😅 would love to take care of some cutting if they gets in the way 🤣🤣🤣
I love your self-criticism. Even this is sooo funny :)
..... výýýýborné video .... dost jsem se pobavil =D ..... že ta Jen bude vnučkou Švejka =D
Jen, tvoje postřehy mě vždy vykouzlí úsměv na rtech. Nemusím asi předesílat, že v dnešní vyostřené společenské povolební situaci to ocením dvojnásob ( doufám, že tebe to moc nezasáhlo ). Díky moc a měj se fajn.
Vaše sebereflexe je skvělá👍👏
Your videos are always funny for me. I like to see someone how that person see my country in their eyes from their perpective (sorry for my writings, I do not write in English very often, so please except my apology) just by the way keep doing your videos. Thank you.
Thanks for watching Vladimir!
Skvělý video.
Nevidím důvod proč se nad chybami pohoršovat, někdy ba naopak pobaví :-)
Jako milovník historie, ale i černého humoru jsem se teda nijak nepohoršil. Ač je hrozný co se stalo.
Nejlepší je,že to bylo nechtěné a jako černý humor to bylo geniální.
@@martinoliva6490 souhlasím
Jen, it's a lot of fun. I've spent a decade in the US and of course, the imperial system of units was a pain in the ass. But I knew I had to adapt to it. So when I write to my blog, even 14 years after I returned to Czechia, I still carefully write most of the variables in the U.S. units, being aware that a bit over 50% of my readers are Americans. Inches, feet, miles, gallons are bad enough but as you know, the degrees of temperature are harder. Well, it is not that hard. 32 Fahrenheit is 0 Celsius, the freezing point. Then every extra Fahrenheit is 5/9 of Celsius. You may remember that -40 Fahrenheit is the same as -40 Celsius, the same number. And 82 Fahrenheit, a slightly subtropical summer day temperature, is 27.7777 i.e. almost 28 degrees Celsius. This is easy to remember, 82 is 28, digits are reversed. 32F and 82F is clear, they are separated by 50F. In the middle, you have 32+25=57F which is... one-half of 28 which is about 14 Celsius. Well, 60F is not so far from 15 C, it is 15.555 C.
Beasts and bees LOL. Why don't you learn the actual quote by our Forefather? "That's it, the Promised Land, flowing with milk and honey." I completely disagree that "the better defense against enemies" didn't work. It worked spectacularly and Czechia and/or the Lands of the Bohemian Crown has had the most stable border among all European countries in the history. Find the animated Czech history maps on CZcams, the border in 1019 was almost identical to the current Czech Republic! And the same shape returned many times in the 1000 years. The mountains helped a big time. For centuries, we had an Austrian king-emperor etc. but it really started as our choice (much like a potential future enslavement by the EU started by our choice in the 2003 referendum). But the country is nicely defensible and it's helped the Czech language not to get extinct, like the Irish or Sorbian etc. did go extinct. In that sense, we are similar to Switzerland that could sustain its sovereignty and neutrality with the helps of Alps and lots of guns among the private people.
Forefather Czech is a legend and we're really not sure whether it was 7th or 8th century. But it's very different from saying that it's the 14th century because that is really a well-established "real history" or "nearly a present". 14th century is the time of the most admired king Charles IV, the time when the Charles University or Charles Bridge were built. In many respects, they were ahead of the present. Around 1350, they surely had a more economically viable reaction to an epidemics (Black Death which killed 50% of Europeans) than the recent reaction to the Wuhan Fauci Cold. You can't compare that time with some pagan savages who came to Bohemia from the East. You shouldn't mock it because it sounds dumb. In the U.S., a country without any similar history, it's still similar to the comparison of pre-Columbus Native Americans' legends with Abraham Lincoln. The former is fuzzy but the latter is not. The fuzziness of some Native American legends doesn't mean that Abraham Lincoln was driving a dinosaur (not even Columbus had one, they went extinct 65 million years ago). Now, Forefather Czech is a legend but it is very obvious scientifically that lots of such tribes had a common ancestor and a more compact homeland, somewhere near Belarus or Ukraine (and it is also clear that the Native Americans had some shared ancestors with East Asians etc.), and Czechs and Poles had to be closer to one another than they are today. This is really science, not a legend. The legend is really a poetic way to describe the scientific facts about the tree of life of Slavic nations and the late Migration Period. There is quite a chance that Čech was indeed the first name of the key leader from those times and his brother was Lech. There was really not much space to completely invent these stories in the subsequent centuries. There is really no good reason why the descendants of these first Czechs should have forgotten the name of the leader of the migration wave. It makes no sense. Your suggestion that it is on par with some BS that an AOC just totally fabricates is stupid and insulting. Laughing about these historical matters is stupid and when someone is told to be stupid and is "offended", it's too bad. It reminds me of the cretins I once met at a San Francisco party. Holy crap, how I hated these arrogant imbeciles. My friend Zuzana S. had to calm me down for some time. She probably thought that she would have made me happy by this encounter with the North Californian people. Poor girl.
My sister has lived in the French Riviera for over 10 years, dealt with tons of the French customer service personnel, and she is confident that the Czech customer service is a different coffee. And that doesn't mean just apples and oranges. It means that the Czech ones are way more (a whole category more) hard-working and professional, trying to satisfy the consumer, than the French counterparts. And even more pleasant, but without the fake American smiles. And indeed, many of us have the instinct to correct mistakes which is also something that helps the costumer service folks because they often need to fix someone's mistakes.
Cashiers' throwing groceries quickly is a part of the efficacy. Maybe your priorities are different but the bulk of Czech supermarket buyers primarily care about the speed (I am surely annoyed by every single pensioner, it is usually a pensioner, who blocks the corridor) and the waiting in the line is clearly the worst possible problem with a cashier after downright mistakes in his or her counting. So it is just excellent when they do it quickly and when they don't distract the buyers by some gibberish that has nothing to do with the purpose of supermarkets - which would clearly slow down them as well as the buyer. If you need to talk to someone for an hour and you can't find friends, hire a psychologist. You shouldn't blame the cashiers but you shouldn't blame the system, either. It is a great system. The system is optimized when the tasks are clearly divided and the supermarkets are places to quickly and effectively get food. Go to the pub for a more sensible environment to chat. As others, I am not trying to be rude, I am just trying to help you not to be a rude clueless whining Yankee because there are many people in this common sense nation who are rightfully angry about your suggestion that a slow and lazy cashier babbling about BS is better than the effective Czech cashiers. The U.S. supermarkets typically sucked. I could tell you many stories from C-Town etc., I have tried many of them in many classes, including and especially the lowest ones, including supermarkets in black neighborhoods of New Brunswick, NJ. Concerning the U.S. customer service, I have seen a lot. A travel agency sold me a night in a hotel near the Newark Airport that had been closed for 3 months. And many stories like that.
About supermarkets. I really love k-scan app that some kauflands have. I can check things I buy while I am picking them with my smartphone (some stores have readers. not those where I am shopping) and then just pay them at self checkout.
"Čím se, Renatko, proslavil praotec Čech?"
"Prosím, paní učitelko, uváděl Chcete být milionářem."
Tohle byla zábava sledovat. Perfektní :-)
You are truly awesome!
Wow, thank you!
This was great fun :D The urge to correct everything is sometimes hard to resist, but other times not at all, as articulate something niche from czech to english is not easy :D So usually no engagement from me :D
Aha, so it's good English practice! Then I welcome it!
I love your "Ř" when you say "uvidíme se pŘíští týden" 😃
Lmao I love this so much! 😂
I like it in grocery when it runs fast. We as children learned to put groceries on belt in order we will bag it, so big things first, fragile last. Anyway great video, with your added humor.
Forefather Cech is obviously a legend, but the story should obviously date to around the time of Slav migration and settlemet. And considering Duchy of Bohemia was funed in 9th century
Příchod Slovanů do Čech bývá datován na přelom 6. a 7. století. Někteří historikové jej kladli do první poloviny 6. století (např. v souvislosti s vyhnáním Hildigise roku 535), spíše ale převažuje názor, že Slované ovládli tento prostor až v poslední třetině 6. století. Sámova říše v 7. století je již považována za svaz slovanských kmenů, byť Sámo byl franský kupec.
Here in England, when I shop at Aldi. The staff requires customers to place their trolleys exactly by the till lady (it took me years to get use to this!). Customer need to place scan item back to trolley, pay, move away from the till and then pack shopping to bags.
Vtipné - Jaroslav Hašek by měl z tebe radost ! :-))
velká pochvala!
@@DreamPrague Jak znáš Jaroslava Haška tak není co řešit.Nevěřil bych,že ti to jméno něco říká.Tak to je velká poklona za tvoje znalosti.
@@martinoliva1142 Hašek je oblíbený a známý víc v cizině než doma.
@@breznik1197 Bejvávalo.Dnes se už moc nečte a rozhodně né autory 100let starý.
Hi Jen
The Czechs are without a doubt shaping you to their local standards. lol. ( well done for hacking in 💪 )
This "correction" prompted me to say that I appreciate all your efforts and deeply respect your love for my homeland ! It's fun watching your Czech journey, thank you for sharing it 🙏
Úžasná. Vydržte to s náma
"Bye Bye, Lidice" is the best!!!
Toto video bylo super.
Wow, you said Ř really good:)
Hahaaaaa uz dlouho jsem se tak nepobavil, Jennifer jsi skvela 😂👍
"Apples and oranges" je myslím v české idiomatice něco jako "míchat jablka a hrušky / jablka s hruškami". :o) A musím pochválit úplně luxusní "Ř" v Přemyslovi! Nádhera! :o)