CZECH vs. AMERICAN SCHOOLS
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In this video, I break down the differences between the Czech and US school systems. Do you have something to add? Leave it in the comments below.
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Story time! (sponsored by italki)
03:07 The Czech school system is very confusing! (for an American)
03:29 Preschool & Kindergarten
05:20 Compulsory attendance years
05:41 Basic school
06:10 Secondary school
06:42 Big difference between the two systems
07:35 The types of Czech secondary school
11:20 My opinion on the differences
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Ahoy František!
I would like to add that private schools are considered as a joke in Czechia by many people. People think that they are for rich and spoiled kids and that they will finish the school just by paying for it.
To be fair that also is often the case - there is incentive to keep you enrolled even if you are barely passing just cuz you are constant source of revenue - also there is really no other reason to go to a private school - they are usually of lower study quality than public schools (at least in my area)
Ale ono to tak často je, všechny soukromé školy se kterými mám zkušenosti (buď osobně nebo z druhé ruky) jsou nekvalitní, mají nekvalitní pedagogický sbor a studenty bez chuti do učení nových věcí, protože očekávají, že to za ně peníze udělají.
@@dobryden.6241 Možná základní. Mám zkušenost se soukromou i státní VŠ a ta soukromá měla zaplacené odborníky z praxe, kteří věděli to, o čem si kantoři na státní jen četli a pluli v tom. Je pak škoda, když jdete jako dálkař a víte víc než kantor.
@@drakulkacz6489 promiň, cože? Lidi, co učí na vysokých školách daný předmět jsou v naprosté většině odborníci v daném oboru a oboru se věnují jako hlavní náplni své práce. Soukromá vysoká škola může najímat kvalitní lidi, ale pochybuji, že jim může financovat i výzkum, který je bude neustále držet v obraze daného předmětu.
@@Houmicek15 a myslíš, že na státních to tak vždy je? Možná na technikách, medicíně...
One correction and one interesting fact (for foreigners especially) regarding the Czech universities. You can study for free at any age not just up to 26. You have 4 years to finish bachelor’s degree and 3 years for master’s degree (usually there may be exceptions). At age 26 you will only lose student benefits (health and social insurance paid by government, scholarships and students discounts). The interesting fact is, that university education is free for everybody and not only for Czech citizens under the condition, that they will study in Czech language. 🙂
And one can even study part-time which barely interferes with a full-time job. So it's super accessible to improve your qualification or just go learn some new field on Uni level anytime later in life.
@DreamPrague Yes, that is the biggest misconception. Education is free regardless of age. In 26, you just lose benefits, which is completely unrelated to education.
And, if you successfully finish the university degree, you have another free years to do second one, third one, etc. As long as you are successful, you can study for free til you die.
@@exander77 the Czechs dont have to pay for second university if they already have a degree? In Slovakia you can only study for free 3 years of bachelor and 2 years of master/ing study. If you study at two universities at the same time, or started one, dropped it midway and then started another, or do a degree in a new field, you have to pay the second university.
@@martinajurickova5750 If you study successfully, you can study until you die. It works in a way that you have 4 years for Bachelor and 3 years for Magister, and all previous failed studies are counted towards this limit.
So if you study 4 years Magister and 3 years Bachelor and you finish it successfully, you can study another 4 years Magister and 3 years Bachelor. Successful studies are not counted towards the limit.
But if you study 2 years Bachelor and you fail it. Then, after studying another 2 years for free, you have to pay for more. But if you finish the second school successfully, then you can again study another school and 2 years will be covered, then the rest paid again. All unsuccessful years are counted towards your currently used years within 4 and 3 year limits for Bachelor and Magister, respectfully.
That's all fun and great untill pandemic hits and destroys your plans (as per my case)
As a Czech student; yes, we are very stressed. It can go two ways, you either succeed or you don't. :-)
lol nebo skočíš z mostu ale to je stejný jako sebevražda
Proc boze ?? Ja sem vycilovanej ucnak co delam dalkove v chillu khemo nepotrebuju bullshit a jedu do usa za rok jú ?
"You either succeed, or you don't" - well, there don't seem to be any other options in life anyways, you've mentioned them all :D
I have never felled stress, until at High School somebody presented me, that something like that exists :D But like Zdenek said below, exactly, everybody needs to be deicesful as soon as possible, it makes sense to me
So, I quit studying IT at the age of 18 (started at 15) and went on to study economics, which I finished at 22. This is why I like the Czech system, because I made the wrong decision early, realised it was a bad decision pretty late but still managed to get educated in a field and find work at a bank when I was 23. (quit uni, that's why there's a gap year, don't judge me)
Imagine I started deciding what I wanna do at the age of 20 and finished my shenanigans by 28.
Also what the hell do children in the US study for so long when they can't even locate Europe on a world map?
Most of them even can't find their home state on US's blind map. What are they learning? Maybe how to start a war and praying to fairy tale granpa :D
why should they care to locate Europe on the map?
@@rdis87 You are one of them right?💀🤡
@@nmwvideos2393 not really, I had to study US and UK history and geography during high school but I’m from Europe. I just kind of understand why they shouldn’t know where Europe is.
@@rdis87 It should be part of basic education to know about the rest of the world. Not knowing how to locate on a world map entire continents means there's something wrong with the basic education that the person received. Regardless of where they studied. This should be normal general basic knowledge for everyone on this planet who has an education...
As somebody who went through both of the systems, I want to add that the most significant difference, hands down, are semester schedules. I also think that is the biggest downfall of us education. In reality, it means that for example geography is presented in elementary school as a part of a bigger block and you will come in contact with the subject every day for 3 to 6 months. When you move on to middle school you will take geography again for 1 semester and if your parents make you you might take it in HS. Now apply this to any subject that is not English or math. Here in Czech, you have schedules - I think that is a marvelous invention. This means you will see the subject in some form for 13 solid years. Something will stick, even with those who really resist. Also, I think that sorting the kids from 5th grade (used to be 2nd) and up isn't necessarily a bad thing. Yes, it might be stressful, but in the end, those kids are grouped with alike kids which helps them to study faster instead of keep waiting for the slow ones. In states, they solved this by Project Arrow, honor classes, or any other gifted program that each state has and I understand why. Can you imagine the transport logistics?
I agree with everything you wrote except for the early leaving for gymnasium as a good thing. Studies have proven again and again that the 6 and 8-year gymnasiums sucking out the more ambitious kids (=kids of more ambitious parents) from elementary schools does no good to the elementary school children. Those overachieving kids pull the more relaxed ones their way and the performance of a class is better. The "better" kids would eventually get to gymnasium, so they would not lack their success (and also don't have such a stressful life as in gymnasium as young kids - that was also proven many times).
@@slouberiee I understand what you are saying; however, I am not convinced that is what is happening and yes, I read those studies. Unless the situation changed dramatically, from my experience as a kid and parent and aid in a classroom, all results and achievements were made very public in each classroom and every single person was aware of the results of the other one. With that said, I don't think it worked as a motivator, actually, the opposite was happening and you can't force people to be friends, just because you want them to improve. The other option - completely hide result (experience from states) and still doesn't provide any motivation. I strongly believe if a kid wants to study, he/she will study without any other engine running in the background. Kids should not need overachieving parents to study, help should come primarily from school as they should have an unbiased opinion. The only other point I see is that if you keep kids together, maybe it won't create such a split population, but then again - look at the USA, they are together for 13 years and they are at each other's throats just because of political affiliation, considerably more divided society than here.
@@slouberiee (Omlouvám se za češtinu, nemám teď čas matlat se s angličtinou.) Já jsem ráda, že jsem od 6. třídy chodila na gympl. Vstávala jsem každý den v půl 6 a vracela jsem se domů v půl 4. V zimě tedy od tmy do tmy. Přesto jsem si nikdy nestěžovala. No, možná trochu, znáte to, ale hlavně jsem nikdy nelitovala svého rozhodnutí. Normální rodiče jako ti moji nechají dítě si vybrat.
Kdybych totiž pokračovala na základní škole, byla bych šikanovaný mimoň, co si rád čte, a šprt. Na gymplu si rádi četli skoro všichni a dobré známky byly považované za kladnou věc. A jelikož jsem si všichni byli vědomi toho, jak je učivo obtížné, nikdo se nepozastavoval ani nad známkami špatnými. Cítila jsem se mezi spolužáky, že mezi ně patřím. Na vysokou školu mě to připravilo perfektně. Nebýt gymnázia, tak teď nejsem tam, kde jsem.
Sestra šla na gympl až na středí a bylo pro ni mnohem obtížnější zvládat všechno učivo než pro mě. Už jsem byla zvyklá a měla jsem dobré základy.
Ano, byla jsem tak trochu izolovaná od běžného mixu populace, ale člověk nikdy není izolovaný úplně. Vysoká škola je za mě v tomhle smyslu mnohem větší extrém.
@@radka9516 Souhlas, taky jsem pak vysokou prošel jak nůž máslem až jsem se pak v kruhu červenal za šprta z těch červených desek na diplomu. Ovšem, dnes si říkám blbec, jsem nevyužil přejít na kdysi předchůdce 8letýho gymnázia, protože bych dojížděl 8 km autobusem a to se mi v 11 letech nechtělo. Dnes si ťukám na čelo. 2. stupeň základky mě brzdil v podstatě jsem se jím promaloval na pijácích z nudy. Ještě, že mě na základce v 8. třídě (za nás byla 8 letá základka) odchytil fyzikář a řekl jasně. Vyprdni se na ty střední školy co sis napsal a jdi na gymnásium a rovnou na vysokou.
@@slouberiee Those smart kids are often bullied in their classes because they have different interests. 8-year gymnasium helps them grow.
I know it may sound weird to foreigners, but im happy with this system. Is there a bit of preassure? Of course, but i personally feel like having to choose what střední škola i want to go to made me really think about my future and what im good at that i could utilize in my career life. This also helps separate slower and faster learners, which is a really good thing imo. If you know youre not a studious type and know you would much rather dedicate your time to some craft or stuff, you can study the field directly without having to learn ALL of the "useless" stuff around, and If on the other hand youre a really studious type and are sure you want to work in a field that happens to be really difficult, you can start studying it sooner so youre more prepared for what comes in the university and then later on in real life. Not sure? Join a gymnasium, that way you have more time to think about what you really want to do in life while getting some standard education. Im currently in my second year of střední (thats like 11th grade in the US ig?) and i wouldnt really change anything about this system. Im studying a field that i really enjoy and already getting the experience that is essencial for my career in the future, so yeah, works for me!
@Turecko76 thing is there‘s no optimal solution: you either fuck over the smarter students by hamstringing them by keeping them in class with the extremely slow learners, or you separate them and create different ‚classes‘
However the real problem starts when your parents finances/career have a major influence on what type of school you go to.
Cause then it‘s clearly not by the capabilities of the individual student, but rather the support they get outside of.
Which really isn‘t advantageous to either the poor students nor society at large.
@Turecko76 požadavky na vzdělání jsou bohužel politické. Měli jsme nejkvalitnější systém školství, navázaný na praxi, a zbylo z toho žalostné torzo, bohužel.
Všichni "musí" mít maturitu, ale jednak jsou nešťastní oni, druhak úroveň maturity degraduje a taky to znamená, že není dost kvalitních lidí v praxi.
Ve 14 letech člověk NEVÍ, co chce dělat. I když si to v té době myslí.
I do have to agree, because I am one of those "not sure" students I went to a gymnasium. I like it there, although some say that it is more difficult there, I find it to be just for me. And decisions? I personally think that they are very good to embrace the child. I'm currently in the "Kvarta" which is an equivalent for the 9th class.
@Turecko76 Problém je to, že většinu věcí, které se na škole naučíme, nevyužijeme. Všechny děti se učí to samé, bez ohledu na to, na co má to dítě talent. Já trpěl třeba v hodinách matematiky a fyziky a chtěl jsem spolužáky mlátit, že to je banda dementů, co na tom jako nechápout. Vždyť je to naprosto jané. A třeba v dějepisu jsem spal, protože mne fakt nezajímalo, co se dělo v roce 895 našeho letopočtu na území dnešní Itálie.
Amazing video! Explaining the Czech school system to foreigners can be a pain in the neck :D
Couple notes:
1) Zákadní škola can be divided into two major parts: 1. supeň (level 1, grade 1-5) and 2. stupeň (level 2, grade 6-9). I think this division helps the comparison to US system better.
2) Not sure if this is still applicable but when I was in high school, we called Maturita a "School leaving exam". But that was over a decade ago, who knows what the version is today.
3) Gymnázium is kind of a "jack of all trades" high school without any one particular focus. Kids who are not certain about their trade often end up in Gymnázium to get more time.
4) The naked part cracked me up. I kinda wish we... hm... no, I don't...
Well I like to call gymnazium as extended elementary school because it kinda is. You don't teach here something specialized you go trough all just a bit deeper than in elementary school.
Gymnázium is also usually considered to be a hard, demanding option for gifted kids who are expected to continue to college/university. It varies of course.
The common "maturitní zkouška" final exam is expected by many employers as very basic kind of certification unless you work as a craftsman, specialist technician, waitress, cashier etc.
I've worked in the Czech Education system as an English Teacher, it's been a lot of fun and the kids are great. Most of them love doing English and don't like German. Some of the kids speak really well, better than some of the teachers. It's usually British English that kids get and I'm from Scotland so I let the kids roll their R's. They love doing English games. I don't know anything about the Education system in USA, I can only compare it to the Scottish Education system, which is quite different to even the English system. I think the biggest difference is sports teams and sports competitions between schools. It's a long time since I actually went to school as a pupil, we still got 2 weeks holiday in October to pick potatoes on farms when I was there.
Rozhodování, na kterou střední školu jít, moc stresující není. Nebo u mě nebylo. Bylo mi to vlastně úplně jedno, měl jsem to jasně nalinkované. Problém přišel, když jsem se nedostal na v té době výběrové pražské gymnázium, přestože jsem měl na ZŠ pořád vyznamenání s průměrem cca 1,2-1,3 a u přijímaček z češtiny jedničku a z matiky dvojku. Prostě jsem byl silný ročník, uchazečů byly tři prdele, nazdar bazar. A proč to byl problém? Protože jako druhou školu (jak jsem už psal, bylo mi to jedno, protože gympl byla jasná volba) jsem měl strojní průmyslovku, kterou mně rodiče napsali pod vlivem mého dementního švagra, ať zdechne na dýmějovej mor. Tam mě sice vzali naprosto bez problému, ale... bylo to pro mě, humanitně založeného člověka, soukromé peklo. Předměty jako provozuschopnost výrobních zařízení, dílenská cvičení, mechanika, technické kreslení, kontrola a měření. Takže od prváku trojky, od druháku čtyřky a ve třeťáku reparát. Nakonec jsem to nějak doklepal k maturitě, což zpětně považuju za jeden z největších životních úspěchů. Naštěstí mě to nikdy neživilo, hned po maturitě přišla revoluce a já zdrhnul k tomu, co mě bavilo.
Takže za mě: rozhodování ve čtrnácti o střední škole dávejte prosím větší význam, než se na první pohled může zdát. Je skutečně důležité - ať nedopadnete jako já.
Cely muj profesionalni zivot se odehrava v "cizich" jazycich, ale Vas prispevek mi pripomnel, proc je dulezite nezapomenout cesky! Cist "...kterou mně rodiče napsali pod vlivem mého dementního švagra, ať zdechne na dýmějovej mor." v rodnem jazyce je stejne hodnotne jako precist si Machuv Maj v originale. Je to na urovni "pohasla ohne zar, mrtve milenky cit."👍
Na strojní průmyslovce bylo takových lidí mnoho, ale nikdo si z toho dýmějový mor nepřivolával. Naopak tam vládla uvolněná a zábavná atmosféra. Sranda největší a supr kalby, sice holek bylo méně, ale i tak fajn prostředí. Kámoš co jsem s ním seděl v lavici, viděl hřídel poprvé v životě asi tak tři roky po maturitě.
@@marek35 Nepovažuji supr kalby na střední za hlavní přednost nějaké střední školy. Ostatně na gymplu bylo holek něco přes půlku a byly hezký, kdybych měl preferovat z této stránky. Na vysoký jsme byli v menšině 1:5 a to přitom technickopřírodní známá VŠ v Práglu, na postgraduálu se to zase drobet srovnalo. Ale záleželo na fakultě.
@@paulselinger6658 Původní příspěvek mě rozesmál hodně, ale tohle mě málem zabilo🤣
Tady bych vzal v potaz i to, že naši rodiče (ti starší) neměli ani 9 třídu takže se museli rozhodovat ještě o rok dříve
Ve skutečnosti to takový stres není. Jednotlivé typy škol jsou prostupné, na vysokou se lze dostat i z jiného typu školy než z gymnázia a znala jsem i lidi, kteří studovali dva obory na různých školách najednou. Navíc spousta patnáctiletých má tyhle otázky na háku a za výběr jsou tedy zodpovědní rodiče. Když třeba po roce zjistí, že to není ono, prostě změní obor. Času je dost, s náklady pomáhá stát, takže se to dá zvládnout.
Pro mě osobně to byl velký stres. Jak to rozhodování kam jít, tak i příprava na zkoušky. Cítila jsem velkou odpovědnost za svá rozhodnutí ohledně studia a i hodně lidí kolem mě to mělo stejně. Jako sice je možné přestoupit, ale chceš ztrácet rok (nebo více) svého života špatným rozhodnutím? Jako je fajn, že to není definitivní a jde to změnit, ale moc mě to neuklidňovalo. Holt je to různé. Já zrovna byla v této sociální bublině. 😀
@@zlutabrokolice jenze to je zas otazka proc to rodice nepodaji detem lepe. U nas se vzdy zduraznovalo, jde o to ziskat maturitu, je jedno kde, ale jde o to ji mit (nebo mit vyucnak, aby si clovek mohl maturitu dodelat).
@@kniha742 Jasný, jasný. To je fakt. Ale tak u nás to bylo tak, že si máme vybrat cokoliv, co nás bude těšit v životě dělat. Ale zvlášť v tom hodně mladém věku (jestli půjdeš na osmiletý gympl řešíš v 10 letech), je těžké se o tom zodpovědně rozhodnout (jak ostatně zaznělo), prostě ještě nevíš, co tě bude tak moc těšit. Jako rozhodovat o své budoucnosti je zkrátka stresující. 😁 I v dospělosti, natož tehdy.
Myslím, že o stresu z přípravy na budoucnost nemůže být řeč 😉 já určitě stres neměla, ba naopak ještě v 8 třídě jsem byla na úřadu práce informační centrum škol se poradit jaké zaměstnání jsou v kurzu a na které bych se měla zaměřit.
Pochopitelně každý má jiné zájmy a myšlení ve svém věku, takže je těžko soudit takto plošně.
@@kniha742 Tohle je naprosto špatnej systém to hlavně mít maturitu. V Praxi žádnej zaměstnavatel maturitu nechce vidět, ptá se jenom na to, kde člověk dělal předtim. Takže potřebujete hlavně ty reálný schopnosti který vám dala ta konkrétní škola, mít jenom papír "maturita" je k ničemu.
I'm just gonna add some more information.
Parents of kids mostly mothers can decide when they put their child in kindergarten. Most women are putting their children in kindergarten at age 3, but some are putting their children at age 2, which is the minimum year you can put your child there. Some mothers put their child at age 4, which is the latest age you had to put your child in kindergarten.
Kindergarten has two grades. 1 grade can be called youngest which is from 2-4, and the second grade can be called oldest for kids at age 5. These children are preparing for "exams" in primary school.
When you turn age 6, you have to do "exams" to get to school. It tests your knowledge about geometry shapes etc. If the kid is not ready for school, he/she will join school next year which means at age 7.
The primary school also has two grades. First grade is from 1-5 grade. Here kids learn mostly just basic stuff. In 5 grade, the kid can do exams at the gymnasium. The second grade is from 6-9 grade. Here kids mostly learn basic stuff but more deeply.
Kids are learning English in 3rd grade, but some of them can start learning in 1st grade, depending on their parents. In 7th grade, they can choose a second language which is mostly Russian, German, or Spanish.
After ending 9th grade, they can choose where to go. To gymnasium, middle school, middle professional school, or conservatory. We don't start grades from 11 grade. We start counting grades from 1 grade. The gymnasium and middle schools have 4 grades ending with maturita exams. The middle professional school is ending at 3 grade but the students can roll to middle school to finish maturita exams. They mostly start at 2 or 3 grade depending on the school.
The gymnasium is mostly called the second primary school. You mostly don't learn something specific and are stuck on basics. You don't have to after the gymnasium to join high school, but it's recommended.
Najde se i dost školek, kde berou děti mladší 2 let, jen už musí být bez plen....
Before 1989 there were also nurseries (česky jesle) which usually took care of children 1-2 yo (yes, they employed real health nurses), but most of them was closed down after revolution. Also it was usual, that companies had their own preschools for children of their employees (most preschools today are run by municipalities), some employers today return to this practice, but is hard, because there is a lot of requirements to fulfill (both on personel and equipment; we have bureaucratic state after all).
The latest age you "have to" put child in kindergarten is one year before you start primary school, so at age 5. Only last year of kindergarten is mandatory (but you can just go for "exams" and have individual program for your child).
@@robinsebelova7103 jesle byly už pro mnohem mladší než 1 leté děti. Mamka v nich pracovala a měli tam děti obvykle od 6 měsíců, ale také jen 3 měsíců. Ano, většina jich byla zrušena, ale stále jich ještě pár zbylo. Ve městě, kde žiji, jedny jesle máme...
@@Elf-Dobby A také byly "týdenní školky" s přespáváním - pro matky pracující i na noční. Jednou nás táta zapomněl vyzvednout ve školce, tak nás šoupli do spacího oddělení, a když v 7 přikvačil, už jsme byly v pyžamkách, čučely na večerníček a tak :D
Im electrician with Maturita. Many 15 y. o. children do not know exactly which school they want to go to. Many of them sometimes regret their decisions. I wasn't the top of the class and sometimes I regretted it during my studies, but today I'm glad that I chose electronics, because I'm doing the less complicated part of electronics that I learned and that I enjoyed. Today I connect photovoltaic power plants and if I had to describe it in a few words, I simply connect the cables and push them into the right holes. 🙂
Alright this might be a weird suggestion, but I'll go with it anyway: Do you think it would be worth to make a video about Czech dialects? And maybe compare the nuances with the English dialects/accents?
wow good luck with that :P
how the hell would you even compare that O.o the only way I can imagine could be like hardcore comparing the phonetic inventory of a dialect, stress, diction and soforth, which would be pretty boring for the avarage viewer, not to mention a lot of work for a yt video
I don't mean literal comparison. I thought more like introducing the czech dialects, and maybe give an example with an american/english one. For example the Ostrava's dialect is fast paced and has rapid consonants. Is there an english one sounding similar to americans?
But yeah it is a weird suggestion, as I already said. Not sure if it would work. I'm a accent nerd, so I just thought it might have been insteresting. 🤷♂
@@AtenRIP Each accent is specific to the language and each country and culture is different so it's pretty hard but I kind of see what you mean. For example, I am from the north of England where we don't make any difference between the sounds in 'bath' and 'cat' both being short 'a' sounds. In the south they say the first with a long 'ah' sound and the second with a short 'a'. So basically our vowels are shorter than southerners. I guess this is a bit like the Ostrava short vowels.
Not "predatory", but "preparatory".
Very well explained. The main difference between the two schooling system is that students of different talents do not waste their time being schooled together in grades 9 (10) to 12 (13), but separate after grade 9 into PREPARATORY (gymnasium) for university education, trade schools, technical or "administrative" schools.
This was really cool.
I think talking about how extracurriculars are handled in CZ and the US would also make for an interesting video related to education. I mean, half of every coming of age american comedy movie focuses on the culture of sports, marching bands etc. etc. in high schools or universities. We don't really have that in CZ - but the system of "základní umělecká škola" where children attend various artúmusic/dance/theatre classes all in one school building for a very affordable price works very very well. Private music tutors for instance are not very common.
It would be really interesting to cover the differences of what would a child do if they wanted to start playing an instrument etc. etc... :)
In use art and sport are not extracurriculars. I am not that familiar with us specifics, but the subjects at school are divided into several groups and you have to choose a certain number of subjects from each group. Drama classes or school band may be part of the "artsy" group. I dont think they have private tutoring or anything like konzervator, instead their schools provide a variety of classes to accomodate everyone and so every such class is graded or assessed and shows up on your "vysvedceni". And sports...that is a whole different matter. Schools get a big part of their financing from school sports events (college leagues are a big thing there) and students with considerable sport talents can easily get scholarships for the whole study as long as they represent the school on state/federal level and attract sponsors.
I think that its worth noting that the basic school in czechia has two stages (stupně) , first stage year 1-5 is when all subjects are mainly lead by the main teacher and second stage 6-9 is when students get a seperate teacher for each subject
Good detail, thanks!
University in the Czech Republic is free (you don't have to pay tuition fees) regardless of age. The only difference is that until you are 26, the state pays for health insurance and your parents are legally obliged to support you financially. The wrong choice of secondary school - high school is also not fatal. If you have any high school diploma (maturita), you can take the entrance exams for any university. I graduated from electrical engineering and after several years of work I started studying at the university (history and social sciences) at the age of 29. Today I work as a high school (gymnazium) teacher
Jé, zdravím! To je vskutku příjemné překvapení, narazit tady na Tebe.😀
@@janaduskova8694 Jo, svět je dneska jedna velká vesnice a navíc tenhle kanál je mezi určitými lidmi v Praze dost populární ;-)
I believe parents or in general legal guardians have to support their children until the age of 18. You are correct that state pays health insurance until the age of 26, but I think it is more than that, the university also receives some fixed amount of money for each enrolled student (until the age of 26, after that you have to pay what would university otherwise receive). On top of that, there are rules which limit how long can student "prolong" their degree, so for example if particular degree lasts 3 years, you can't study it for 7 years, at least not for free.
@@petrpavelka7248 As for school fees - you don't pay anything at state schools, regardless of age. After the age of 26, you may not study (repeat a year) for more than 1 year in addition to normal studies. This means that if a master's degree lasts 5 years, you can study for free for 6 years (you pay for the next year). As for the legal maintenance obligation of the parents - we were both wrong. The maintenance obligation of the parents towards the child does not end at either 18 or 26 years of age. The obligation lasts until the descendant is able to support himself (so, for example, it never ends in the case of severe disability). See the New Civil Code - Family Act (from 1 July 2021) § 859. So if you start working at the age of 18 - your parents do not have to support you. However, if you decide to study after five years - a legal obligation arises for them again
tatulda.cz/budu-platit-za-studium-na-vs-kdyz-mam-vic-nez-26-let/
www.vasevyzivne.cz/vyzivne-na-zletile-dite/
@@petrpavelka7248 Legal guardians have to support until 26 (in case of study) - more precisely if "adult children" cannot work (study, illness, etc.) legal guardians have "child support obligation" until the age of 26.
Universities receive money per capita regardless of the student's age. But yeah, the possibility of extending the study for free does not last forever. You only have 4 free years for 3 years long bachelor study and another 4 for 2 years long master/magister orengineer study. But if you never tried and started at 43, it's free (but without these students benefits).
I don't know about other but CUni does not charge a fee for new, other study. So, let's say, you have an engineer in Chemistry - used those free years, get degree - but you can study something else here for free. It's relatively new, before it was like 10k for year.
100% true!! My husband is Czech and has a degree from a private school in Economics but here in USA is an election…he has explained that our children would have a reality check with their honors and AP courses that they have here! He always said that he would love to see how well they would do in Czech school!
Hi Jane, your videos are funnier and funnier, I really enjoy, and I often laugh loud😂 Great job
Hello Jen, I would like to thank you for these videos where I can really see your interest in our systems and culture. There are some things you may not know, so if you are interested, here they are: 1) Last year of kindergarten is compulsory, so children actually have to study for at least for ten years (5-15). Přípravná třída is for any children who is six years old and is not able to go to first class of primary school.
2) During secondary school you can apply for prep school, for 8 years (you go from 6th grade of "basic" school) or for 6 years (then you go from 8th grade), these schools also ends with maturita and are primarly for talented children who would be bored in standard classes. (But a lot of people are not fans of these schools).
3) Preparation schools (gymnázia) are not specialized but you can usually take classes which you are interested in and have your maturita from Czech and English or Math (which is compulsory on every kind of school with maturita) and two other subjects that you want (Art, Geography, History...).
4) You can get to university from any kind of school but you have to pass the maturita exam, which means even if you are a cook and passed the maturita you can apply to university and become a doctor. In my opinion, it is actually better for you if you go to university from specialized school (e.g. I want to be a teacher, so I attended pedagogical lyceum which is something between "gymnázium" and "střední odborná škola" and now I am studing pedagogy at university.)
I hope it helped you to understand the system a bit, I know it may be hard :D. Thank you for your videos, they make me happy O:)
She did mention that it's mandatory to attend pre-school at 5 and also to apply for gymnasium at 5th, 7th grade or at the end of basic school.
Also it is usually better to go from gymnasium to uni since a lot of things are missing for example at nursery school if you wanna became a doctor.
@@eiramram2035 Okay, sorry for that. In my point of view, it depends on what you want to study. If you want to study for example physics, gymnasium is probably better. If you are sure that you want to be a teacher or doctor, some kind of specialized school may be better because there is some kind of practice and specialized subjects, so at university you are not that shocked 😀. But if you are not sure what you want to do or you just know that you are good at studying, gymnazium is a good way. However all in all, you are right and thx for your comment.
Thank you for sharing these details, to help me learn more!
Vaše videá sú veľmi poučné na profesionálnej úrovni👍
V mojom živote som sa rozhodoval len 2 krát. Kam na strednú školu a po maturite, kam na vysokú školu. Žiadne veľké stresy som nezažíval. Už som mal vopred jasno. Je to veľmi jednoduché. Systém vzdelávania je však široký, výhodný a pestrý, preto sa Vám zdá zložitý😉
Pravda je, že dnes pracujem v inej oblasti, ako som sa vzdelával...😂😂😂 Učíme sa celý život, pravda. 😉
Oh my, I remember my first English lessons in mid 90's. I was born in 1989 so I got to experience most of those changes happening in our school system during those time.
Some teachers tried really hard to adapt and others not so much. I was lucky that my family always considered languages to be important so my grandmother and my mother helped me to achieve at least a decent level of English before I was done with basic/elementary school.
It might be an interesting example for some US viewers that my chemically focused high school (Střední průmyslová škola chemická Pardubice) totally disregarded history, geography, arts etc. in second to fourth years but we used to have a lot of maths, physics, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, chemical engineering and a lot of weekly lab excercises. Those were also sub-divided by the specific field of research. Then I had a few lessons a week of Czech, English,biology, basics of economy, IT, PE etc. but at least 50% of lessons had a direct connection to chemistry in both theoretical and practical/industrial use.
I'm sure that many other Czechs have a similar epxrience from differently focused schools but the main point is that those who succesfully finish such a school are supposed to be quite universal and capable workers/low management in their field with quite a short introduction into the specific needs of a company that hires them.
Rozhodování, na jakou střední školu jít, moc těžké není. Buď člověk ví, co ho baví a co by chtěl dělat, nebo ne. Já osobně už od 8. třídy věděla, že chci jít na střední odbournou školu veterinární. Většina mých spolužáků ze základní školy šli na odborné školy. Asi jen 8 nevědělo a tak šlo na všeobecné gymnázium. Ani to nebyl moc stres. Já naopak, po dni otevřených dveří, jsem se na štřední fakt těšila.
Most of the video applies also to Slovak school system. Thank you for taking your time to explain the CZ and US. I appreciate your take on the differences - curious, fun and non-judgemental :)
Thank you for this illumination. Have been here in Prague for two years now and you are helping me a lot!
How is Tobik?
Jako vždy, příjemná a inovativní. Bravo.😊👍
i dont think , kids are put under presure coz some choises... Idea behind is, to start selection between kids with ability to learn, and others who are not so fast..
And if they don't know (but don't want to work) they can always go to a gymnasium and *then* either go work, finish some other school or go to university.
My mum was one of those Russian language teachers, who quickly had to reorient to English after velvet revolution :-) I remember as a child both my parents frequently attending some courses in the evenings. But I remember no problems at school one year later, when my mandatory foreign language lessons started.
I will also throw my hat in the ring - personally as a Czech I really prefer the way our system works - Around the age of 15 I feel like we were plenty old to know what sort of things we are good at and what sort of things we like to do. Personally I wasnt decided so I went to Gymnasium - am a bit sad I didnt try to get in after 5th grade since I probably could have. A lot of people try to describe it as an "extended elementary school" but I feel like that makes it sound like you are going through the same things again (like a repeat class or something) - which isnt the case. At gymnasium we took stuff way more in depth and way further into complicated stuff (I study a Uni in the UK rn and the entirety of my Uni math was stuff I had passed by like 3rd grade of Gymnasium). It should also be said that while Gymnasiums are general education, from the 3rd year onwards (or 7th year assuming you started on the 8 year course) you are required to pick two "Semminary" classes which are basically even more indepth within a certain subject - these actually matter quite a bit when going to Uni so its important to pick the right ones.
Really good video, I love seeing the comparison 😊.I would to add some other information which you didn't mention in video.
When you are in basic school, you can also apply to tzv. Základní umělecké školy (Basic art school, I don´t know how to translate it), where you can improve you art skills, such as playing on instrument or visual art.
When you finish basic school, you can also apply to tzv. Střední umělecká škola(high school of art), where you are learning about visual art, such as graphic design, but you must take an exam( like on konzervatorium)to prove skills, and It's really hard. I have friend of mine, who took these exams, and she did not apply.
On average, many people,who want to apply to these schools (I'm talking about Gymnasiums and Artschools with exams specifically) , didn't succeed because of massive interest in these schools. I was applying to local Gymnasium last school year(now I'm in 10th grade) and I almost didn't get in. On Technical school hovewer, you still have to take some exam (to filtrate students basically, they haven't to much sense IMHO), but you don't have to be so successful to get in. This whole thing about entering exams and types of high school is really messy even for me as native Czech.
(I am sorry , if I misspelled or wrote some nonsense, I'm still learning 😅)
Hey, Jenn!
Nice video, well done!👌👍
BTW 1: In one of your previous videos, you addressed the difference between American and Czech high school students (JACÍ JSOU VE SKUTEČNOSTI AMERIČNÍ STŘEDOŠKOLÁCI? 🇺🇸 vs 🇨🇿 Teenagers). At that time, I pointed out to you that Czech fans are not clear about the Greek system at American universities. You promised to make a video about it sometime. Since in this video you focus on the differences between Czech and American schools, another video that will clarify the Greek system at American universities would follow up well on the topic of education... 🎓🤔😉
BTW 2: Speaking of learning, it's been a long time since you showed off your progress in Czech language skills to your Czech fans - it would take a video in the Czech language again (and without the help of Italki lecturers)! Likewise, there is no information on whether you have already successfully obtained Czech citizenship?! Or did I miss something?😂😉😄😆😛
From my experience in czech school system, secondary schools focusing on specialization come too early, 13-yo teenagers may idealize profession they want or still don't know what to do as an adult. On another hand, gymnasium (ie. prep school) focuses on general materials but you need to get to university while after secondary school exam, you have more choices than at the gymnasium (work, university or other school education).
In czech history, basic school has 9 years since 1918 (foundation of Czechoslovakia), in the 70s of 20th century until 1990, it was shortened to 8 years but citizens had mandatory school attendance 10 years so they had to continue in higher education. In 1990, mandatory school attendance was shortened back to 9 years and basic schools got 9 years too (9th year was non-mandatory until 1996-97).
Basic school also has two... um, stages? Years 1-5 have basic learning material like learning to write/read, basic math, fun, etc. and years 6-9 starting more complicated learning materials and preparation for entrance exams into high schools/gymnasiums.
0:40 - 1:47 this was a such a good segue into the ad!! i didnt mind to watch st all
It is common misconception, but false, that university is free to your 26 years. In fact, there is no limit by age on free years in university, BUT you can be registered as full time student only till your 26th birthday, after which you must either register in the Employment office, find a job (registered, not schwartz), or pay your social and health insurance by yourself (because you cannot be an official student anymore).
The limit on free university education goes like this: Bachelor have 4 free years (as it is expected to be finished in 3 years by official plan), and you have 3 free years for engineer / magister (as it is expected to be finished in 2 years by official plan). This, plus you have 1 extra year you can spend on either on bachelor or on engineer/magister.
It is also misconception that there are 4 years for Bachelor and 3 years for Magister degree and that's it. As long as your studies are successful, you can study till you die for free. The years are there only in case you fail.
školné sice neplatíte, ale po 26.roce platíte každou zkoušku každého předmětu , kterou děláte (i opravnou). Před pár lety to bylo 2 000kč/termín. Kolegyně na jiné VŠ musela platit školné (20 000 /semestr+ zkouškovné). Když jsem vyšla školu, vláda už ryla do studentů, ať si berou studentské půjčky a bude se školné platit všude. Naštěstí jim to neprošlo. Stačí, že jsme si platili ubytování, jídlo a učebnice. My nebo rodiče
@@zdenarose600 To je nesmysl. V ČR se nikdy neplatily a neplatí žádné poplatky za studium po 26 roce věku. Ani za semestry, ani za termíny. Pokud řádně studujete, tak můžete studovat bezplatně až do smrti.
Jediné, co se mění po 26. roce je to, že si musíte platit zdravotní pojištění.
during pedagogical school I admired and loved Komensky s theories of education, read and learnt. But I never dreamt twenty years later I would eventually live in his country, CZ would be my adoptive country. I would use koh-i-noor supplies like crazy for my art lessons, my favourite brand only to find out later in life that is CZ made. What a surprise and pride :) Good video, I needed this info also
After graduating certain time on college, you have to do so called "dipolomová práce" or "diploma work" and if you succeed, you get a title in front of your name relevant for what did you study and for how long, so there is "bakalář" (Bc) for which you have to study 3 yrs, "magistr" (Mgr) or "inženýr" (Ing) if you studied technical specialisation, such as machinery, architectonics, forestry, etc., that is 4 years and then it's doctor title, where you become doctor of that specific thing, you studied, so it's for example RNDr for natural sciences, MUDr for medicine, JUDr for law and so on. And after studying "vyšší odborná škola" you get title DiS (diplomed specialist) behind your name, no matter the specialisation.
I think you really nailed the explanation of the czech school system. I don´t think you left out anything important. Really well done!
Our middle schools (and if we speak english we call them high schools, and “Vysoká škola” usually University) are more complicated. For example I studied art but it wasn’t on “konzervatoř”. It was “průmyslová škola” which is technicaly “střední odborná škola”. Also our length of high school is different according to type of major and kind of diploma we get after finnishing high school. It’s really complicated to explain. But you did a great job
And yeah, it is HUGE stress. Many of us change high school many times. Friends brother change high school many time. When we were 15 and start high school he was in same grade as we were. We was 18 at that time. And he find out out the major of that high school is not for him and quit to choose a new one, to go to “prváku” (the 10th grade) again, next school year. For the fourth time.
This is super interesting! I was always confused about the equivalence between czech-American, cuz when an American asks, where I am, I cant be like “oh yeah! I’m in a gymnasium”
I just say am on highschool simple as that ain't college but either a primary scool
There is a typo in the print with your video. There is a word "predatory" instead of "preparatory" in the sentence where you say that students can take preparatory courses to get into a university. I really enjoyed the video. You did a very good job explaining the differences.
@Dream_Prague Regarding the US GED tests ... I don't know if it varies by state, or if it has changed over time, but the GED may be taken at any age. There are many circumstances that may lead to someone not finishing high school.
Decades ago, I volunteered with a university group to tutor subjects in a nearby prison where some inmates wanted to take and pass the GED test. All of these inmates were nonviolent offenders and most were there for drug related offenses. Their ages varied from late teens into their sixties. Their apparent learning abilities varied wildly, much like a typical US high school (as far as I could tell - I just tutored math). Their motivation was to pass the GED test since that would look favorable to a parole board and hopefully to a future employer. A few inmates attended the sessions just to see some people "from the outside", and others really applied themselves by working ahead in the provided workbooks and even fabricating their own exercises and solving them.
Hi Jen. We can recall the atmosphere, worries and joys surrounding basic school in the 80s in the TV series "My všichni školou povinní". Have you ever heard of it?
I've never heard of it but thanks for the recommendation!
Jenom doplnění, i studium na učilišti může být zakončeno maturitou.
Bohužel.. Jen je v tom pak zbytečný zmatek. Také taková maturita vůbec nemá úroveň maturity gymnaziální. Učení se má zakončit výučním listem.
@@michaldevetsedm1882 I v dělnických profesích existuje hierarchie. V tom případě je vám maturita na gymnáziu k ničemu. Potřebujete nutně praktické znalosti a dovednosti, které vás naučí jen v učení. Pokud máte vést kolektiv dělníků, musíte vědět o jejich práci daleko víc než student se všeobecnou maturitou! Ta je vám v podstatě k ničemu, pokud se nedostanete na vysokou školu. Musíte si potom stejně výuční list dodělat, nebo musíte mít jiné doplňkové studium.
@@michaldevetsedm1882 já jsem po 3 letech po takové maturitě (střední odborné učiliště) zvládla s úspěchem přijímací zkoušky na vysokou školu ekonomickou, tedy zkoušku z matematiky a němčiny. Nemáte právo tvrdit, že moje maturitní zkouška složená z češtiny, němčiny, 3 odborných předmětů a praktické zkoušky je něco méně než maturita z gymnázia.
@@michaldevetsedm1882 Jan Vojtko se vyučil kuchařem-číšníkem a pak si šel dodělat nástavbové studium a nakonec vystudoval andragogiku se zaměřením na psychologii.
@@michaldevetsedm1882 I na toho, abyste mohl dělat kominíka musíte mít více znalostí, než jak strčit kartáč do komína. Navíc třeba obsluha NC strojů už je více o programování než o zručnosti.
Oh, careful about that "predatory class" in your subtitles, it might bite your fingers off! :D Probatory, I reckon :D Love your enthusiasm and humour, Jen, keep it up! ^^
Great video, please try to cover English universities for foreign students and the process.
Děkuji za pěkné video , co bysme rádi viděli přiště ? co třeba, jak vám to jde s češtinou ? :)
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@@adrianacernochova dik
@@adrianacernochova ... zásadně bychom ...
Wow, such a well researched video! You really did your homework!
The limit of 26 years has actually been scrapped. My father started his bachelors at the age of 50 for free. You can also study several degrees subsequently for free. AFAIK, the only time you'd have to start paying is if you start a degree, don't finish it and start a new one.
Oh and you have a hilarious typo in the subtitles - 12:44 "predatory class" :D
About the amount of options and decisions, as a Czech who moved to Germany, I am always baffled by the complexity of the German system. The Czech one is incredibly streamlined and simple compared to the German one :D
This is one of those things, that feels quite natural living, but sounds super complicated when being described
You’re absolutely right, it’s explained very well. And yea we have a little problem translating the type of school we go to into English😄
4:30 - Just note. Full name is Jan Amos Komenský. I live in city where J.A.K. did study in the year of 1608 and later he became the teacher in our city. Also for that reason we have quite comprehensive museum of education in our city. In this museum are original property - text, education tools, books, e.t.c.... of J.A.K.
Hi Jen, I have some corrections for you : 1 hardly anyone passes Maturitni zkouska at the age of 18 since that type of exam is for the kids who enroll in 4-year study program: Stredni odborna skola ('middle professional'), Stredni prumyslova ('middle industrial') skola or Gymnazium (prep school) starting after their 9th grade at the elementary school. The students usually turn 15 by the end of summer holiday after the 9th grade elementary school. Maturitni zkouska takes place usually in May of the 4th year and by that time, most everyone in the class is 19. Exception 1 some students may turn 19 during that summer holiday ; Exception 2, some kids may have started the official schooling with 1-year delay ('odklad') for those reasons that if a pupil born on last of August is supposed to handle the same things as the other kid who was born 1st September but almost year ahead (they both belong to the same study year), the first one would have a handicap so the parents are given a choice to postpone the start of elementary school based on consultations with advisors like psychologists, 'logoped', the doctors and so on. This is what happens more often than not >> that leads to someone taking Maturitni zkouska at the age of 20 more likely than someone at the age of 18.
The Stredni odborne uciliste (3 years; the vocational school for blue collars) is not finished by Maturitni zkouska at all! The students pass Zaverecna zkouska ('final exam') and get Vyucni list as a certificate (age 18). They cannot continue to any type of tertiary education until they get Maturita, it is a pre-requisite. The technical middle schools offer 2-year upgrade programs to cover the gap if someone later decided they would like to go for maturita or possibly continue to a college or university or 'Vyssi odborna skola'. That one is finished by maturita. Most people 90%+ go rather for 4 years Gymnazium or Stredni odborna skola than take 3+2 years to get the same done in two phases.
Vyssi odborna skola is for people with maturita exam but it is not a college nor any academically recognized type of education. They offer a range of professional degrees on the level like 'Associate XYZ', or maybe non-academical MBA - there may be nurses attempting for higher professional grade, administration, teaching, social workers, nutritionists, court clerks as well as machinery. I would say most people either stop after maturita or continue to college and skip this variant of education.
Thanks for an interesting video! I'm shocked by translation "připravná třída" as "predatory class". Is that correct?
Exactly Jen. I had no idea what I want a do when I was 15 and it is very stressful. It is not uncommon that you switch High School or even College due to dislike of your specification....
Kids most often end the primary school when they're 15 or 16 (depending in which age they start the first grade). Finishing primary school in age of 14 is also possible, but not very usual, it's special cases when kid starts the first class in age of 5 (normally they start the first grade in age of 6 or 7) or the kid skip the first grade and go straightaway to the second grade (I know that this was option for extra talented kids in the past, I'm not sure if it's still possible today).
By the way, I think that syllabus of the primary education is concepted that students learn here the basic they need for future live and that's why is the age of 15 (when they most usually finish the primary school) boundary for:
- age of criminal responsibility
-age of consent
-entitlement to work (but limited compared to adult work - juvenile for example can't take night shifts, work in exacting conditions like collieries ect.)
- oportunity to get driving licence for motor vehicles (with cylinder capacity less than 50 cm^3)
and many other rights and entitlements.
I know that in USA expecially age of criminal responsibility and age of consent aren't tight together (age of consent is higher and the age of criminal responsibility is far lower and even doesn't exist in some states), but I think that it has a point why are all these rights and entitlements are set to the age when most kids just finish their primary school education.
Nice perspective, but from my angle - i could try out specialized 'stredni skola' and than go to the university with the same specialization or just switch. The decision is fine, you're 14 or 15, I was quite happy that noone tried to tell me where to apply, if i would ave to suffer through some general pre university education i would drop out :)
Hi Jenn, I left automatic subtitless accidently on. I've almost died when it showed "predatory school" :D
Could you please do a video of you taking a common English maturita test and comment on it? Find one from last year, they are usually available on the ministry of education website or on teaching portals, along with results. Not sure about the Czech maturita, but in Slovakia the answer sheet is usually quite strict and every year there are complains that some of the questions are either ambiguous or written in such a way, that multiple options can used as correct answers, but the state graders/test makers only accept one. I would love to see your opinion.
(Jenn, first of all, let me THANK YOU for these many "comparison" videos - please, make more of them! There´s a great USP in theme for your channel) With this out of the way, what is a "basic school"? Do you really call it that way where you come from? Because you´ll only ever hear "elementary school" (or "primary" for that matter) online and offline. Other than that, very informative. Also, could you please consider doing a video on high-level view of the American university/college system? There´s a ton of value in these videos. Keep going :) There´s a solid-pronounced "ř" waiting at the end of that road for you
Thanks for the positive feedback! No we don't call it basic school, I think I just picked that up from Czech people! I would love to do a video on the University system, I'll have to get into the research because I only did graduate school here. I'm very curious though!
About choosing. For me it was easy cuz I always wanted to go to gymnazium. Six years type. (Catholics btw) Its very common to change high school type or end it and go to university with totally different focusing.
Velmi pěkné. Hodně vtipné. 😀
I like your video. It is very clear and shows the general differences between Czechs and Americans. There is a funny little mistake in the subtitles: přípravná třída = predatory class. Yes, I'm complaining and I'm Czech :D
Yeah I can say that when you're fifteen and around, and you have to choose on what school you should go is big responsibility and it's a big stressful situation for kids that age.
Ze základky jde podat přihlášky na více učilišť.Na první místo se dává kam byste chtěla jít a pak polevujete ve s vích nárocích.Pokud si dobře pamatuji tak lze podat přihlášku na 2 učiliště.Střední školu lze ukončit s maturitou a pak v tom daném oboru jde jít na vysokou školu.
Nemusí to být stejný obor, VŠ jsou právě tímto zajímavé.
Moc hezké! K té povinné ruštině. Většinou nikoho nebavila, ale byla možnost ve volném čase v kroužku zdarma studovat třeba němčinu. Ale člověk si říkal na co? Do NDR ( Část Německa, přiřazená do východního bloku) se sice občas dalo vyjet na nákupy, ale na to stačilo znát pár slovíček, u moře tam byla zima.Takže se jezdilo do Bulharska a Rumunska k moři, kde se člověk domluvil nohama, rukama. Nikdo totiž nepředpokládal, že se otevřou hranice a mohlo by to fungovat jinak.To jsme si jen přáli. ( Nejlépe potichu, aby nás někdo neudal)Tzv. na západ nemohlo cestovat tak 95 % populace. Mohli jen významní umělci, sportovci a pár vysoce postavených zaměstnanců zahraničního obchodu. Takže pro běžného člověka se učit jinou řeč? K čemu?
Mně bavila moc, a chtěla jsem pokračovat. Bohužel, to vůbec nešlo - až když jsem byla znova na VŠ, začala se ruština znova učit, protože lidi konečně pochopili, že i ona by se mohla hodit. Mrzí mě to dodnes, nikdy jsem se už k ní opravdu nevrátila, a mohla jsem mluvit poměrně plynně rusky... aspoň jsem teda nezapomněla azbuku, a dokážu si teda semo tamo nějaký ten nápis přečíst.
Vážně jste tak uvažovali? Nebavilo někoho ve vašem okolí učit se nějakou řeč bez toho, aby tam měl šanci jet? Protože já třeba studuji hned dva jazyky, které neuplatním. Z jednoho jsem i absolvovala zkoušky dané země, teoreticky bych tam mohla jít pracovat, kdybych chtěla. Ale mě prostě jenom hrozně baví učit se ty jazyky. :) Můj manžel to má stejně jako já. Anglicky mluvím denně, používám ten jazyk prakticky neustále od puberty. A nikdy jsem v anglicky mluvící zemi nebyla a asi ještě dlouho se tam nepodívám a věděla jsem to už jako dítě, kdy jsem se ten jazyk začala učit. Ale mě to strašně bavilo. Nevěřím, že by ve vašem okolí nikdo se zájmem o cizí jazyky nebyl, to přece není možné. Znalosti přece člověk nezískává jen proto, aby se mu hodily. Ptala jste se takhle "k čemu?" i u jiných předmětů ve škole? A teď aby to nevyznělo jinak, než má. Jsem skutečně jen zvědavá, vůbec bych si nedovolila to mít někomu za zlé, že ho něco nebaví!
Používám Ruštinu ve všech zemích Slovanských národů. Jsem ráda že jsme ji ve škole měli. Ruština je základem pro Slovanské jazyky.
@@katerinav4217 Asi jste povinně nemusela šprtat po nocích na základce 8stránkové básničky na Puškinův památník a číst o každém autorovi co o něm napisal V. I. Lenin. Mně se ruština hodila až po letech, kdy jsem byl na chvíli pracovně v Rusku. A pak zase až nyní při kontrole, že překlad absurdit Ruské současnosti, že je překlad opravdu OK.
@@vladimirtodt9512 nevím, básničky jsem šprtala, ale mě prostě obecně jazyky baví. To, že se do nich pak motá politika a ideologie je věc jiná, za to jazyk ale nemůže.
Já v každém z nich vnímám i to, co je pod tímhle nánosem, baví mě struktura, etymologie, způsob přemýšlení, atd.
I am from Czech Republic, but my partner is an American. So I am slowly understanding the US education system.
And have to agree with insight this vid offers. At my age of 15 I had no clue what I wanted to become or study...I got pressed by a school counselor and parents go for IT and economics as it is "useful" and good generic direction.
Now I am 35, doing my masters in psychotherapy and counseling in UK after 18 years of working in hospitality and airline industry...my high school is not relevant anymore as I cant recall my school knowledge and basically "reschooling" myself for a direction i want to actually pursue for last decade...
Wish really we could enjoy childhood a bit longer and choose field of study at later age...
Even as a czech I actually learned something about my culture. Thank You!
Actually the University study is not limited by the age of 26. You can study !once! at the university for up to 4 years for bachelor degree and following up to 3 years for engineering/master degree. The 26 years is limit made by the state for gaining the "Student" status. The Student status brings benefits of health insurance paid by the state and eligibility for some discounts (like in public mass transportation).
So you can start your study at university as a 32yo and finish as 39yo, providing you still have your highschool diploma stashed somewhere, pay your health insurance yourself, or you have a (part-time) job, where your health insurance is partly paid (9% of gross wage) by employer and partly by yourself (4,5%). The latter way has an advantage of paying for social insurance (and counting into your mandatory worked-off years for old-age pension too).
The early choosing may produce stress... but I'd argue that it isn't the stressful part most of the time, as parents will often push you to go to gymnasium, or at least high school that will include maturitní zkouška since anything less is by some viewed as... for dummies. And if you go to gymnasium, it's not specialized like the rest of high schools so it isn't really that stressful as it doesn't seal your fate when it comes to job.
From your description it feels the real biggest difference is in high school. Basically all american high schools are gymnasiums? In Czech, if you go for school that specializes, you can basically start working in that particular field at about 18. Actually many big factories and companies have their associated high schools where they more or less pick young people to work with them from (sometimes giving them some benefits such as monthly payment depending on their successes in school).
Of course not going to gymnasium doesn't bar you from attending a university... in fact some universities are easier to attend if they align with a speciality of your high school (typically technical types). Most universities require you to have maturitni zkouska and they don't really care how and where you got it (some will give you free entrance if you come from gymnasium). Practically in czech universities the entrance exam is just a very wide net to cast off very very bad students. The real net is first and second year where up to 75% of students give up/find themselves not studious enough.
What I want to say, picking high school is not like life time decision that can't be changed in future. So it's not as drastic and stressful decision as you may think it is.
I took a year of Russian before we left CR, can't even remember the alphabet now, except for a few letters. I feel like my Czech education up to 5th grade was a much higher standard than my US education proceeding from there. Perhaps because I had to learn English first, but I am not sure that is all. I tended to excel in my US classes, where I probably would have been just an average Czech student. I didn't even have to work too hard.
My 16-year-old daughter just finished secondary school in the UK. She loves that she had the choice to go on to Sixth Form, which is more of a uni prep school, vs. college, which involves practical training and can lead to university or apprenticeship training, depending on the subject. She chose law and criminology and is thrilled to be getting treated more like an adult, in a college setting. I generally find there is much less snobbery here (or perhaps I just don't hang out with snobs, haha) than in the US if a student doesn't choose the traditional university track.
Im from Czech Republic and you got it right. Good Job. ( Děkuji vaše Čeština je dobrá )
Hi Jen,
hope you don´t mind me clarifying several terms (for your fans) you´ve touched upon such as "Gymnasium", which might be translated into Enlish as "Secondary General School" (Maturita), "Střední odborná škola" = "Secondary Professional School" (Maturita), "konzervatoř" = "Conservatoire" or "Conservatory" (Maturita), while "Střední odborné učiliště" tends to be called "Vocational School" (Vocational Apprenticeship Certificate), which you basically mentioned in your video ;-).
As for Maturita, it is advisable to refer to it as a "school leaving examination" rather than a "diploma exam", but I got your point here ;-).
Moving on to higher / tertiary education. Once you pass the Maturita Examinaton, you can study at "Vyšší odborná škola", which is referred to as "Higher Professional School" (Diploma), "Vysoká škola" (Bachelor´s and Master´s degrees), which is an equivalent of "university" and finally "Univerzita" = "University", which is generally speaking more prestigeous (or ought to be) and where you can obtain not only a Bachelor´s and Master´s , but also a PhD. as well as some higher academic degrees.
7:20 Gospel Choir? It is interesting. It may be an unpolite question, but I am interested as a pastor (minister). Are you (and Honza) visiting some local congregation now in Prague?
Lukáš, pastor
Correctly, two parts of graduation, state exam and school exam, haven´t been since 2008, but 2011. I graduated in 2010 and that was old way graduation, but whole gymnazium years we were prepared for new graduation which may be ready for year 2009. It was ready year after our graduation, 2011.
I thing I'd like to point out - AFAIK the college costs (studijní) are not paid by state based on age but actually by length of study which conveniently matches with the age of 26. BUT (or VUT in czech) and MU (Masarykova Univerzita), and I believe almost every other college in Czechia has set that Bc. study is free for "basic length of study + 1 year" which in other words mean 3 year + 1 year as potential extension of study of Bc. degree. Then in case of Magister/Ingeneer degree it is same condition 2 + 1 year.
Most common practice is starting with Elementary school at age of 6 + 9 years = 15yo + 4 years at High school (střední škola) = 19yo + 3+1 = 23yo + 2+1 = 26 years old.
Right now I'm not sure whether these studies can carry over other college. There still can be age "restriction" for other costs, like health insurance (which I think that's the case).
My personal experience is that I had extension 3+1 but failed finals so I had to repeat them at the end of August but for these two months (July and August) I got a fee to pay these two months - because I overstayed the timeframe (even though I wasn't 26 or older).
The second experience has my GF that cancelled previous studies and now she have to pay for study, however even though she's over 26 now I can't confirm whether she would have to pay health insurance and other stuff because as she has a job the employer pays these from her salary (since it's given by law).
Hi, just a tip about “Ahoj všichni” - you are saying it with “v”, which is there and it seems logical to pronounce it that way, but actually the right way is to say “fšichni”. Just try it, there should be significant difference. I tried to say it with “v” letter and I sounded exactly like you :))
Heh, I had English subtitles on, for some reason, and I noticed that the "přípravná třída" was written as "predatory class". Seems odd to me :)
Either way, you did a great job at the explanation, albeit in a few cases your understanding was limited. The practical schools (whether you mean "střední odborné učiliště" or "vyšší odborná škola") can cover other topics like administrative work, social service, nurses … it doesn't need to have to do anything with machines or industry.
Pokud Jen nepřidává titulky sama, což si nemyslím, YT je generuje samo. Kolikrát to ale přeloží naprosto nesmyslně asi jako Google translator. Takže je brát s rezervou.
@@6549Marci Generuje samo? Když YT generuje titulky, nejen že to poznáte z postupného přidávání dle řeči, ale je to i uvedeno (u daného jazyka vždy v závorce "vytvořeno automaticky"). Automatické by nikdy takovouto úroveň neměly! Toto jsou vytvořené titulky s časováním (zrovna tady v cz dobře vidět, když se díky chybějícímu řádku ukázaly dva titulky zaráz i s uvedeným časováním dalšího). Nedělá je přímo Jen, ale někdo pro ni a platí za to, mnohokrát to zmiňovala. Přesto se chybička občas vloudí... :-)
@@janaklusackova9116 Ano, YT si titulky po určité době generuje samo, pokud se to aktivuje v nastavení videa. Proto jsem psala, že jsou titulky občas holé nesmysly.
Samozřejmě, pokud někdo pro Jen překládá, jak zmiňujete, může udělat chybu.
Super video konečně jsem se dozvěděl jak se některé termíny řeknou anglicky.
Slovak here. out system is the same. the decisionmaking might seem too soon, or too complicated, but I personaly never thought about that. I`ve always been good at foreign languages and didn`t have a problem with general academic subjects, so a "gymnazium" was a nobrainer for me, cause I knew I wanted to go to uni. But my big brother wasn`t very academicly minded and was more artistic and practicaly oriented, so he went to a technical hight school specialising in art and design. and later to an art university.
people who can`t decide what to do go to gymnasium, and if they still don`t know what to do at 18, they study marketing at uni :P
Video suggestion? How about the Czech pub culture? For us pubs are core of culture. We go to pubs just to hang out with friends and ply cards. or we go there to meet new people. You need a plumber? Go to pub, have a beer, ask for plumber, have a beer with him and talk about your project. You might get great deal and he will fix your sink for few beers or give you reasonable price. Or he will ask what you can do and you will trade your skills in whatever you know.
And than there are all those unwritten rules, like do not touch somebody else drink, if somebody is rude to waitress you can tell him off and so. And most amazingly, if you see a guy putting something in girls drink, you are more or less not only allowed, but expected to beat him down, which is just amazing. On the other hand, I never saw that happen, probably because it is a big no-no which will not only get you proper beating, but also ban from that place.
Do you check the subtitles @Jen? I've seen some wrongly transcribed and/or misspelled words here but today 'predatory' for 'preparatory' topped it all.
Jenn, I really don't feel like criticizing your Czech, you are doing a truly laudable job with it. But I can't resist making one suggestion, having to do with pronunciation. Almost without exception, Czech places a moderate stress on the first syllable of a word, with a bit less emphasis on each subsequent syllable. Obviously, if there is a vowel with a long mark, this modifies the scheme. Try to pronounce Nelahozeves (this is where Antonin Dvorak was born) correctly. This word is most useful for this purpose because it has a series of syllables and there are no long marks on the vowels. Your Czech friends will be glad to provide a little guidance. You tend to place the accent on some syllable in the middle of a word, producing a sing song effect, i.e. an English accent.
But lets consider the difference between those that study specialisation only last two years and those that study their field for 7 or 9 years. I was sure what I want in my 7th grade. Now, 8 am 36 and do not regret any of my decision regarding to studies (even quitting the university after 4 years) 🙂
I'm am a US high school graduate (now CZ Uni. Student), and for the majority everything is right. The only difference was that my school started focusing more on career in like 8th, 9th grade by hosting career fairs and offering college tours. So, it's not exactly right to say we didn't focus on our career in the local high school. They also held forward exams every few years throughout our education (to test how we stand in relation to academic standards) and STARs tests(test our math and reading skills). These tests would then determine if we are in the right grade level for our academic standing (you can skip a grade but you would need to take additional test and you can be held back a year or be offered tutoring to retake the exam). Some other information about the US education system is AP (advance placement) and dual credit classes. In high school you would be able to take AP or dual credit classes, which is basically university level classes with college credits if you pass the end of course exam (which determines how much college credits the class is worth based on a 5 point score). AP classes and dual credit classes are best taken during high school because it is much cheaper due to high school covering majority of the college credit cost.
No annoying music, yay. And a good video overall.
I am not sure if this applies to American school environment but I like how you nailed the outfit of a typical teacher.
By the way, in Czech and Slovak schools we have overwhelming majority of female teachers. Is it the same in USA?
I can speak for the UK as a high school teacher. About 30% of teachers are male at secondary level (ages 11-16) and about 20% are male at primary level (ages 5-10). I don't have official statistics for the past but my memories of high school are that a lot of my teachers were male and some of my older colleagues have told me there were more male teachers in the past. I have no properly researched reasons for this increasing shortage of male teachers but it's probably got to do with pay and status. Also child protection attitudes make men feel as though they have to prove they are definitely not pedophiles rather than it being assumed they are not. So to be blunt a lot of blokes who would love to work with children are nervous about it. I think this is tragic because children need more positive male role models in education not least because many boys are starting to see education as a female thing.
That "catastrophic" photo has a certain Emma Smetana feel to it :D amazing
Hi Jennifer,
Sir_Mac here, as always!
If you advance to "gymnázium" from "základní škola", the "gymnázium" could offer you some specialization, but there also could be no specialization, so you have your "maturita" and you are not specialized at all...
So I have to choose my university field, when I was 20 years old... And that is not that bad... I chose wisely by pointing a finger into a newspaper, ... into a field of "librarianship and information science"... Total random guess, but the best guess of my life!
there are probably a lot of differences, I would say that one of the most fundamental is not directly related to the curriculum, but to the fact that students in the US have to move to different classrooms for subjects, while in the Czech Republic teachers go to the classes for the students, this mainly concerns the elementary school
I'll just add one thing. The czech high schools usually don't teach only one subject. You can study for a dentist,for a nurse and for a basic chemistry in one school. In most high schools you can even choose to study liceum, it's like a gymnazium but you got one or two lessons per week about health care or joinery. And usually u can study different subjects on high school and on university, for example you can study economy high school and then study psychology in uni
There are also ways how not to attend school at all. E.g. the first pre-school year is mandatory to be assigned to, but you can just tell the director that your child would be educated at home and attend the pre-school once in November (and by arriving there with a child, it's done, you don't need to pass any exam).
Then there is the option of home-schooling of older children that requires certain degree of education of parents or a warrantor and permission by the school (there are schools that are home-schooling friendly, but also schools that are not, but can use the friendly ones independently on where you actually live) and passing final exams.
I might want to add a bit about the trade schools, střední odborné učiliště. Those are often considered as an option for the kids who do not do well at school. These schools offer more practical education and the exam at the end is not maturita, but more skill-based one. It is considered to be a little bit lower education than normal high school with maturita. I think it is great option for kids whose strong sides are not academics, because they can still get proper education.
Great video, just little add up, We do have option to go straight to gymnázium after 5th grade on základní škola ( well obviously if you make tests 🤣 ) which put the kid even under more pressure lol , but if you getting zero education and constant bullying on your základní škola, any school is better even if it's prestigious hard gymnázium.
Mrs.Dream prague? What is buying furniture in the czech republic like for brand new immigrants? Where I live in Pennsylvania we can get some really high quality Amish made furniture but it costs a fortune. Can I affordably decorate my czech apartment with some antiques furnitre like im my gran gran???
Well as a Serbian who lives in Czech Republic, I can say that Czech system is closer to ours.Only that we have 8 grade elementary school system, and school for us starts at age 7.High school (srednja skola) beggins at age 15 and can last for 3 or 4 years [depents if is craft school (like hairdresser, etc...) or school with actually degree-like mine for example I was studying chemistry and technology], but also prep school; and then you have Visu skolu (literally translated as high-er school), then fakultet or fax which is uni.To enter high school you like is much harder in Serbia than in Czech Republic, because you have your points calculated from Grade 6-8, and you need to pass 3 different exams:Serbian, Math and Combined (containing 5 subjects:history, geography, chemistry, physics and biology).For some schools you need to have max points (100), but doesn't guarantee you that you will get the spot, because there will be students who collected extra points of winning championships in math, serbian and other subjects.So no pressure :D
While there might be some disadvantages that may not be immediately obvious to me, the american secondary school system just always seemed better to me. One of the main reasons I went to a "gymnazium" is because I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do after school... Hell even at the end of "gymnazium" I still really didn't. This way I would have had more time to decide and a better chance to try different courses and to find one I liked whether it was programming, cooking, woodworking, or whatever...
Not to mention this would probably also make the hated "maturita" exams pointless. Instead you could shift to, probably a "credit" system with some mandatory courses and then you could just pick whichever courses you wanted as long as you reached a certain number of credits...
I think our system is better, as it also takes care of people who don't know. You can take gymnasium.
On the other hand, you demonstrate why it is good to choose early. Most people already know what they want to do when 15, and those who don't, they usually don't know when they are 19 as well. Is there really a large group of people who doesn't know at 15 and knows at 19?
While there is necessity to think what you want to do in future from quite early, I don't think there is that much of preassure. If you know what you want then there is no problem. If you don't you go to gymnasium or economy school. If you don't get good marks you go to trade school.
On top of that you can go on university of your choice even if you studied different major of middle school you did as long as you learn for exams on your own (which could be stressful, I admit)
I’m missing a key information about the Czech/Slovak schools, Jen.
Starting the grade one, of the basic education, up to the all stages of the university education, all students have to:
- be able to successfully go through not only the written, but also oral exams
- the same applies to achieving a high school diploma
- the same applies to the exams at the university level
As opposed to Canada and the US, where there are only written exams on all levels of the education. The students get to circle a right answer in a multiple choice of the questions,
or: checkmark a true, or false choice of the answers,
or: fill in the blank part of the sentences.
There are a few written homeworks, assigned to the students throughout the school year. These assignment have a grandiose name, a project, and whatever your personal standard for the project is, goes. The mantra is: “You did your best, honey”, so that no ones’ feelings are hurt... You never fail. You are not learning the logical systems, your work should follow, to be prepared for the real life.
To those here, who criticize Czech cramming: really?! I opine, as you really have to understand, what you have learned, to be able to fluently talk on the questioned subject in front of the whole class! Or, alternately, to write a “pisemna prace”, on a given topic.
No, or very little grammar is taught at schools in North America.
That’s why most of the North American students have to take one year of the English preparatory university classes, to be able to communicate clearly and to write an essay. Their language skills are appalling. No wonder, their talking, listening and writing skills are not cultivated sufficiently, or if they are, only very poorly.
Za mě máte velké plus za zmínění Komenského :)
Jen jste si na tohle video měla vzít nějakého českého poradce. Zapomněla jste totiž zmínit velmi zásadní věc u středních škol.
To že gymnázium je v podstatě všeobecná příprava na vysokou školu, jste řekla naprosto správně. I tu střední umělecké školy máte správně.
Kde je tedy ta chyba? Střední školy se v principu dělí na ty jednodušší bez maturity (odborné učiliště neboli "učňák") a na ty těžší s maturitou (kromě gymnázií a uměleckých především na střední průmyslové školy neboli "průmyslovka" - technického charakteru, chemie, elektro, strojní, atd plus střední zemědělská).
A to je ta klíčová věc, protože nemít maturitu ale jen "učňák" bez maturity je na českém pracovním trhu obrovský handicap.
Poněvadž můžete vykonávat jen nejnižší dělnické profese. Většinou je maturita základním požadavkem na jakoukoliv slušnější pozici, pomalu i na "hajzlbábu" na hlavním nádraží.
+myslím že i školka je na 4 roky, ne na 3
Ano Cesi si potrpi na toto, proste na ten papir a razitko. V USA ale i Kanade neverili ze existuje v CR obor Prodavac. Doufam ze to Jen vi, protoze se musi doma po precteni chytat za bricho jak se smeje :D Ano na prodavacku se mila Jen zde by mela vyucit tak to bylo :D
Yeah, i think the choice making really is stressful. I guess it's the reason many young people struggle to realize what they want to do in their life even later in their twenties. My parents made that choice for me, i went to 8-year gymnazium, because they wanted me to. I actually just recently realized what i really want to study in university and i am 28 y.o. now, i guess i should have had that sorted out sooner.