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Hello, this is SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s very own programme in which you can learn some interesting, if not useful phrases while listening to music. Today’s phrase to listen to is kde nechal tesař díru, or where the carpenter left a hole. This old and rather odd saying appeared in a song by the Moravian band Mňága a Žďorp, released on their recent album, Takže dobrý.

Hello and welcome to SoundCzech, which this week will give you lots of the language you need to know when doing one of the things that Czechs like most: drinking beer. Czechs drink more beer than any nation in the world so there are a lot of words you need to know, beginning with “hospoda”, as sung in the folk song “Ta naše hospoda”, or “That Pub of Ours”:

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 Alkehol and it is called Guardian Angel. The phrase to listen out for is “on už mě má plný zuby”.

Welcome to SoundCzech – our Czech language series in which you can learn Czech phrases and idioms through song lyrics. Today, the phrase to look out for is tanec mezi vejci – dancing among eggs in a song of the same name by famous Czech folksinger Jaromír Nohavica.

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.