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Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s language series in which you have a chance to learn interesting phrases through song lyrics. Today, we’ll hear a song called “Sklerotická” (Sclerotic) by the Eben brothers, from their 1984 album Malé písně do tmy, or Small songs for the Dark. The phrase to listen for is Spadla klec.

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech our Czech language course in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by the popular Czech band Divokej Bill (Wild Bill) and the name of the song is Znamení (The Sign). The phrase to look out for is “kosa na kámen narazí”.

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech our Czech language course in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s song is by the group Chinasky. It is called 1970 and the phrase to listen out for is “jakej pán, takovej krám”.

Hello, and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s Czech language course, in which you can learn a new idiom or two through song lyrics. Today, we’ll be listening to a tune by legendary singer-songwriter Karel Plíhal, called ‘O Písničce’ (in English ‘About a Song’). The phrase to listen out for comes at the start of the second verse and goes ‘vyspala se do růžova’.

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of SoundCzech – the programme in which we explore the Czech language through song lyrics. The phrase that we will look at is “slaďounké cukrbliky” from the Jaromír Nohavica song Cukrářská Bossanova.

Welcome to this edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s language series in which you can learn some interesting Czech phrases through song lyrics. Today’s song is Královna, or The Queen, and it comes from the 1996 album Apogeum by the legendary Czech new-wave rock band Garáž. The phrase to listen for is “proti srsti”.

Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which you can learn idioms through song lyrics. Today, we’ll be listening to a song called Zkamenělý dítě (The Petrified or Stony Child) by the great Czech ‘90s rock band, Lucie. The words to look out for are “pytel blech” - a bag of fleas.

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, RRs language course made easy. Today we’ll look at a few ways of expressing surprise. The song you’ll hear is called Antlers, the singer is Jan Burian and the phrase to listen out for is jsem z toho jelen.

Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s Czech language course in which you can learn idioms through song lyrics. Today, we’ll be listening to a tune by Lucie Vondráčková – the niece of one of this country’s biggest pop stars, Helena Vondráčková. The song is called ‘Vítr’ (meaning ‘The Wind’) and you might recognise it as a Czech reworking of Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Holding Out For A Hero’. The phrase to listen out for is ‘Kam vítr, tam plášt’’.

Welcome to SoundCzech, the programme in which you can learn Czech through song lyrics. This week we’ll be looking at a song all too familiar to yours truly – “Dominiku” - it is originally a French song, but the Czech version was famously sung by Judita Čeřovská in 1964. The phrase to look out for is “začli se mnou čerti šít.”