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Hello and welcome to Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Today’s rap song is by Bow Wave and the phrase to listen out for is “umí vařit z vody”.

Hello and welcome to Sound Czech, Radio Prague’s language series in which you can learn some interesting phrases while listening to music. Today, we’ll hear the 1994 song Ne, teď ne (No, not now) by the Moravian band Mňága a Žďorp, whose name would deserve a special edition of SoundCzech in its own right. In this edition, however, the phrase to listen out for is ‘na svatýho Dyndy’.

Welcome to this week’s SoundCzech, our weekly language programme helping you learn Czech phrases with the help of song lyrics, and starring this week the legendary Jaromír Nohavica. Regular listeners may be wondering why we so frequently use the songs of music of Nohavica. The answer is that not only does he write wonderfully entertaining songs, but they’re chock-full of homey idioms from the times when he was dragging a toy duck in Moravia – that is, when he was a young fellow in Ostrava. Have a listen to this song, Když jsem tahal kačera, “When

Welcome to another 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 On My Own from the musical Les Miserables, it is sung by Lucie Bílá and the phrase to listen out for is “nosil by mě na rukou”.

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which you can learn new phrases with the help of song lyrics. Our song today is sung by Hana Zagorová and is called Sliby chyby – and that is the phrase to look out for.

Welcome to SoundCzech, our language series in which you can learn Czech phrases through song lyrics. In today’s edition the phrase to look out for is “To co bylo, neplatí”, featured in a song of the same name by Czech pop singer Hana Zagorová.

Hello and welcome to Soundczech, Radio Prague’s signature series in which you can learn some interesting Czech phrases while listening to a song. Today, we’ll hear a modern cover version by the band Lucie of the 1933 song Klobouk ve křoví, or The Hat in the Bushes, originally composed for a theatre play by Jaroslav Ježek, Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich. The phrase to listen for is mít svízel.

Welcome to SoundCzech, our language series in which you can learn Czech phrases and idioms through song lyrics. In today’s edition the phrase to look is “letím jako blázen”, featured in a song by the Czech pop group Chinaski.

Welcome to SoundCzech, our Czech language series in which you can learn Czech phrases and idioms through song lyrics. Today, we will learn some expressions that might come in handy for those of us who would like to complain about the current heat wave. The song we will be listening to is called “Vedro” by the group Tichá Dohoda. The title of the song means heat. The word to listen for is vedro.

Hello and 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 piece is from the musical Les Miserables and is one you’’ll probably recognize – Master of the House.