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Welcome to SoundCzech – our Czech language series in which you can learn Czech phrases and idioms through song lyrics. Today, we’ll be learning some expressions that might come in handy when someone gets on your nerves.

Hello and welcome to a new edition of SoundCzech, our programme in which you can learn some interesting and perhaps useful Czech phrases while listening to music. Today’s song is “Já mořem plul”, or I sailed the sea, by the Czech singer Pavel Bobek. It appeared on his 2000 album, “Jsem pouhý známý”, or I’m Just an Acquaintance. The phrase to listen for is “o chlup”, or by a hair’s breadth.

Welcome to this week’s edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by Czech rock musician Vladimír Mišík and is called Velikej Hever. The phrase to look out for is the somewhat incongruous mít prd, which means to have nothing, or to have little to show for something (such as one’s efforts) or even to have a miserable sum on your bank account.

Welcome to this week’s edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by teenage pop singer Ewa Farna. The song is called Passion and the phrase to listen out for is “oči na stopkách”.

Welcome to SoundCzech. Do you ever get the feeling that the world has gone mad, that everything is upside-down? The songwriters Voskovec and Werich had the same feeling when they wrote the following ditty more than 70 years ago, but in Czech they called it “Svět naruby”, or “the world inside-out”.

Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, our long-running language series in which you can learn Czech words or sayings through song lyrics. In today’s edition we’ll hear part of a song by the great Czech folksinger Jaromír Nohavica: the word to look out for is also the name of the song, Hlupáci, the plural of hlupák, the Czech equivalent of fool or dummy. If you say somebody is hloupý, you’re basically saying they’re not too bright - the light’s on but nobody’s home.

Welcome to SoundCzech – our Czech language series in which you can learn Czech phrases and idioms through song lyrics. In today’s edition, we will be listening to a song by the famous Czech singer-songwriter Karel Kryl, a famous dissident who some dubbed “the poet with a guitar” because of his well-written lyrics. The word to listen out for is tréma.

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s Czech language course in which you can learn new expressions with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by a group called 100 Zvířat – 100 Animals, it’s called Fairytale and the phrase to listen out for is “a potom čert ho vzal” – “and then the devil took him”.

Hello and welcome to SoundCzech, our weekly exploration into all the strange and lovely things that people say in Czech. This week we get into animals with interesting names in Czech, beginning with bears. And “bears” - or little bears - is the name of this lullaby by Jaroslav Samson, “Méďové”.

Welcome to SoundCzech – our Czech language series in which you can learn Czech phrases and idioms through song lyrics. In today’s edition, we’ll hear a song by the popular Czech rock group, Chinaski. The song we are playing for you today, Tabáček, is from their 2005 album “Music Bar.” The word to look out for is pohoda, which translates as contentment or peace.