Hello everybody! I am Lukas and I’m from Czech Republic. For Each One Teach One I have been given of two Finnish girls, Anna and Tilda. Even if we are just one-way teaching group, the girls decided to learn some of the Czech language too.
We have been speaking about our expectations of this course, when we will usually meet, what we will be doing during our meetings and if we have something special we want to learn. The Czech and Finnish culture was discussed too to get an idea what are the differences so we know what to point out.
I practised some of the words and sentences from my Finnish class I am attending at the university. It was much better to me as we were only three and it is much easier and funny to learn in a smaller groups.
As we were practising my finnish, Tilda aked me to teach her numbers from 0 to 10. The reading and pronunciation is quite good mainly because the alphabet is almost the same even with the sounds of the letter. But as nothing is easy, even the Czech language has some special letters that are very difficult to pronaunce corretly for the Finns. Especially it is these few of them: Č (“tsch”), Š (“sh”), Ě (“ye”), and the most famous Ř (“ř”). And if you wanna practise it too, here is a list. Read it as it is a Finnish, and use the English pronunciation mentioned above for the special words:
- 0 – NULA
- 1 – JEDNA
- 2 – DVA
- 3 – TŘI
- 4 – ČTYRY
- 5 – PĚT
- 6 – ŠEST
- 7 – SED(U)M
- 8 – OS(U)M
- 9 – DEVĚT
- 10 – DESET
Have fun and nähdään!
Lukas
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