Compare dialects and discover regional language differences
Why does nobody in Prague speak like your textbook? Discover the systematic differences between Standard Czech (spisovná čeština) and the spoken language most Czechs in Bohemia actually use every day - from the mysterious ej-sound to the grammar your teacher never mentioned.
Beer vs. wine, Prague vs. Brno, humor vs. warmth - explore the deepest cultural and linguistic divide in the Czech Republic. From vocabulary and intonation to food, folk traditions, and regional pride.
From two lines on the test to the first birthday, in Prague and in Czech: the gynaecologist and the těhotenská průkazka, registering at a porodnice, the birth itself, the matrika and the rodný list, the 60-day OAMP deadline for the baby's papers, finding a pediatr who takes new patients, mateřská and rodičák, and the everyday baby words nobody teaches. Written for foreign parents-to-be in Prague, whatever language they grew up with, by people who have been through it.