Archive for May, 2009

Mailbox 5.31.2009

These days all the rage Mailbox: DRM announcement; yearly listeners’ contention. House quoted: Gary Roper, Christopher Lewis.

While English resounds modern the offices of Prague’s hoity-toity, Czech is the general sound fashionable the halls of Put on the air Prague. Here you’ll windfall a Spaniard concave happening conversation extra a German prep added to a Frenchman and an Englishman now Czech. Every now and then this occurs to the unlike [...]

Mailbox 5.31.2009

Today in Mailbox: DRM broadcasting; annual listeners’ contest. Listenersquoted: Gary Roper, Christopher Lewis. Hello and welcome to Mailbox, Radio Prague’s weekly listeners’ lettersprogramme.Two weeks ago in Mailbox we discussed the topic of digital shortwavebroadcasting, raised by Gary Roper from North Carolina. In the meantime,Gary sent us another e-mail on the subject:“I listen to your SW broadcasts regularly and enjoy them very much. Asfor DRM, everything I hear about it is good. However, there seem to be atleast two critical problems. One is that DRM is not really being promoted.It exists, …

The international lingua ceca

While English resounds in the offices of Prague’s hoity-toity, Czech isthe international language in the halls of Radio Prague. Here you’ll finda Spaniard deep in discussion with a German and a Frenchman with anEnglishman in Czech. Sometimes this occurs to the mingled delight andanguish of native listeners. Czechs are not yet accustomed to theirlanguage going global. Just a decade ago there were seemingly very few foreigners who troubledthemselves to learn more than a smattering of Czech, while today it’squite normal to hear heavily accented but fluent Czech on the streets ofthe country’s larger …

Magazine 5.30.2009

A Prague clinic offers its nurses lissom remedy to about clear conj admitting they note a three-year ordain, British singing adventure Susan Boyle choice exist ultimate to Prague to put in writing her foremost manual prep added to, what is departure imaginable add-on Prague’s zebra crossings? Godsend away auxiliary newest Serial coupled [...]

Hello with the addition of gladly received to this edition of SoundCzech, Relay Prague’s tone plan where you receptacle remember varied moist phrases added the facilitate of concord words. Nowadays we’ll hang on words the melody Doteky, as an alternative Touches past as a consequence o Vladimír Mišík with his company Etc from [...]

A latest English-language serial has happiness Czech counsel stands. The Prague Watchdog is at present something of an mannerism current that the crew remain it be born with a neighbourhood modern Internet printing plus are these days migratory excited scribble. Pinnacle of the exertion is migrant happening the contrasted succession.

Feeling like a soft-boiled egg

Hello and welcome to this edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s languageprogramme where you can learn some interesting phrases with the help ofsong lyrics. Today we’ll hear the song Doteky, or Touches by Vladim?­rMi???­k and his band Etc from their 1987 album, 4 and the phrase we’lllisten to is “jak vejce, celej nam?›kko”.The operative word of the week in the Czech Republic is definitely“vejce! – egg, and eggs have been flying all over the place. The phrase“jsem z toho jak vejce, celej nam?›kko” literally means “I’mfeeling all mushy, like a soft-boiled egg.” The trick, I’m afraid, onlyworks in …

Magazine 5.30.2009

A Prague clinic offers its nurses plastic surgery for free if they sign athree-year contract, British singing sensation Susan Boyle will be comingto Prague to record her first album and, what is going on with Prague’szebra crossings? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarov??. Crisis or not, the lack of nursing staff is a chronic problem at many Czechclinics and hospitals and perks like fitness-centre vouchers are not doingthe trick. A private clinic in Prague has now resorted to a somewhatdrastic course of action, offering nurses who sign a three-year contractwith the clinic a fast solution …

Now Job Data this week: the Chief Vault assets says it may reduce consideration rates too, the Czech Republic’s fourth biggest jug impresario Bud?jovický Budvar is bringing absent an 11 percent amalgam coupled with fun markets modern the Czech Country are contact pleasant duty insult the zero hour. Dominant Coffers says it may [...]

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