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Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech Radio Prague’s Czech language course in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by the group Hradišťan and is called Modlitba za Vodu - Prayer for the Water. The phrase to listen out for is “voda má rozpuštěné vlasy”.

Welcome to this week’s edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s language course where we help you learn new Czech phrases through the language of music. This week’s song is “Dokonalá kost” – “a perfect stunner”, by the Nahoru po schodišti dolů band. The word to be on the look out for is “kočička”, or “kitty cat”

Hello and welcome to this edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s language programme where you can learn some interesting phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today we’ll hear the song Doteky, or Touches by Vladimír Mišík and his band Etc from their 1987 album, 4 and the phrase we’ll listen to is “jak vejce, celej naměkko”.

Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, in which you can learn Czech expressions through song lyrics. Today, we feature a song by one of the most popular Czech bands of ‘90s, Lucie. It’s called L’aura and is all about running out of energy, or spirit, or gas. The words to look out for are došly mi síly.

Hello and welcome to SoundCzech, which this week finds us dissecting a song by ageing rockers and former Czech Eurovision flag-fliers, Kabát. The song is called 'Cesta do Kadaně' ('Journey to Kadan') and sees the group travelling to a range of glamorous, and less glamorous, Czech locations and having an uproarious time in most of them. The phrase to listen out for comes bang in the middle of the song and goes 've Slaným je to nemastný':

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s Czech language course in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by the group Alcohol and the phrase to listen out for is “ožral bych se na mol”.

Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s Czech language course in which you can learn new phrases through song lyrics. Today we´ll be listening to the Prague band Tata Bojs, who are well known for their playful songs full of puns and little jokes. Today´s song "Informační", or Informative, is swarming with Czech idioms.

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s language series where you can learn Czech phrases through song lyrics. In today’s episode: slibovat hory doly – an expression singer Daniel Landa uses in the song Verbíři. The phrase means to promise a lot – indeed more than one can deliver.

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – a programme in which you can learn new Czech phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by Ewa Farna, it is called Ponorka –Submarine - and the phrase to listen out for is “hejbni se”.

Hello and welcome to SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s Czech language programme where you can learn Czech phrases through music lyrics. Today’s song is called Králíci (Rabbits) by the hard rock band Kabát. The phrase to look out for is pro srandu králíků – for rabbits’ amusement.