Learn Czech

Czech notes, open-sourced. This repository contains basic Czech words and phrases.

Alphabet

  • j is pronounced like a ‘y’.
  • á, é, í, ý, ú, ů are all long vowels.
  • š, č are pronounced ‘sh’ and ‘ch’.
  • c is pronounced ‘ts’ - like in ‘tsunami’.
  • ň, ď, ť all have an imaginary Czech ‘j’ following them, and sound like ‘new’ and ‘due’ (not ‘noo’ or ‘doo’).
  • ch sounds like the Scottish ch, like in ‘loch’.
  • ř is a fun one! It’s usually explained as something like ‘rzh’, but the sound doesn’t actually exist in any other language.
  • sh is pronounced as 2 distinct sound - ‘s’ then ‘h’, not like the English ‘sh’.