Děkuji moc! 😍🤗

Thank you! I'm happy it helps 😀💪 Check the Instagram, yesterday I posted a nice basic review in pictures, of 3 first cases :-) E.

Prosíím :-)))) Jsem ráda, že toto video pomohlo!

Ahoj Neha, moc děkuju. Hodně štěstí s učením ☺️☺️☺️ Eliška

Thank you for your thanks! :-)

Nemáš zač 😃

Ahoj Diogène, I'm happy this video was so useful to watch! 💪🤗 Are you getting back to Czech after a couple of years? You are right, you have a very good ear 👂😀 I lived in France for 5 years and have been speaking French daily for almost 10 years now. So nothing surprising 😌 Eliška

شكرأ صديقي محمود 😃

@@slowczech عفوا.. إنه حقا مجهود اكثر من رائع

@@yallacesky831 انت على حق :-D Toto video jsem plánovala už nějakou dobu, tak mám teď radost, že je hotové :-)

😅 Bláznivý vědec.

@@slowczech 😂😂😂

Thank you!! Its true that I had Latin 15 years ago and I mostly remember femina feminae faminam :-D E.

May I ask what is your native language? 😊

Eliska SlowCZECH sure, it’s Nepali

🤣🤣 Yes! Very good points, Stefan! You are right about the possessive adjectives. Personally, I hate using genitive for possesion - but I tell it to my students because Czech people say it normally - so I replace "maminky auto" by "maminčino auto" which sounds better to me and sticks better to this English logic. But yes, you are certainly right, it is an adjective and I hope it will not be confusing. But to me in my head it feels like that and as mentionned, this is my way how to see the cases logic. Besides, I dont like grammar tables in step by step/cestina express/... 🤣 Overall, genitive is a very special case expressing this "of" and amount. My goals was to simplify and just show why we have cases and show the logic somehow which was successful since many of my beginner students now tells me that they understand it from this video. So I am very happy :-) As to "šalina", this is my way how to show this "cultural/linguistic war" between Prague and Brno. In France, they have "chocolatine" and "pain au chocolat", in every country you will certainly find another representative word that describes the best the battle between the capital city and 2nd/3rd largest city. And to me, once you know "šalina/tramvaj", you can understand the cheap wine for Pražáky, the inexisting good quality of life in Brno, the D1 to Brno taking 30 days and all the jokes related to Prague/Brno 🤣

@@slowczech It's really a bit unfortunate and confusing to claim that "krokodýlova" and "maminčino" is the genitiv case just because you don't like using it... As it's wrong. And considering that your videos now have it in their titles in the wrong word order... "Petry... something" Well, I wouldn't teach a foreigner something like that. Otherwise, nice ;-)

@@iLearnCzech Jo, it was a mistake, it happens :-) I might do a better one one day. Thanks for comment.

Hey Ami, of course! --1-- Firstly, know that even if you are chosing the incorrect ending, we understand you. Wrong case/wrong ending doesnt change the meaning of what you are saying (which is not the same as with verbs). --2-- Secondly, you need to learn them gradually, meaning that it can take you 6 months or 10 months or 2 years to master them, because simply you will not hurry and your brain will have enough time to get used to the ending in this particular situation. --3--Thirdly, learn them in context + create your own model sentences that you like. Example for accusative feminine sigular ending with -a: "Miluju zmrzlinu" and than you will want to say "I hate school" do you have "školu" or I thank for love "děkuju za lásku". Etc. --4-- Eventually, even Czech people do not use the correct endings, so dont be too hard on yourself :-D :-D (y)

Eliska SlowCZECH Thank you for your reply! So do you think it’s better to memorize the declensions by tables or by reading and listening a lot and get the patterns unconsciously? which way do you think is better in order to get them as fast as possible?

@@ami0362 well it depends on many aspects. but mostly on your motivation and if you like learning by heart and if this works for you. it does for some people. but for most of the students work hearing and reading and saying it 1000x. You would never say Dobrou den / or Jednu pivem prosím.

www.slowczech.com/152-jak-jaky-jaka-jake-jakou-jakeho/ Můžeš poslouchat podcast :)

And how much do you need them? Maybe you can live without them ;-) Many of the students dont really need them if they get enough of the input (listening, watching, reading) :-) Eliška

@@slowczech Děkuji vám za vaši odpověď :-) Very few of them come natural sometimes without thinking about it when i try to speak (thinking wouldn't help anyway since i don't know the theory behind it). I have tried to learn a few cases in the past but it was too overwelming for me personally. I've been just sticking with learning new words, watching czech tv, reading texts which are not too complicated and listen to alot of real life conversations. But I am determined to learn them once I feel like I'm ready! :-) 99% of the people in my environment only speak Czech, which gives me great daily exposure to the language. I can express myself very basic, but as i always say to my conversation partner: Mluvím trochu český. Znám hodně slovo, ale nemám lepídlo dělat správné věty a konversace.

@@andreash3906 My partner is a foreigner. He has never known what those cases are and what they are good for. Yet, he makes phone calls in Czech (vet car service...), he gets angry at a non professional assistant in the hospital in Czech, etc. I disagree that it is necessary to need learn the cases. Of course, 90% of the students want to learn them. That's why this simple video. But as Stephen Krashen says, getting enough exposure and input, as you have, is crucial for a successful language acquisition. So you are doing it great! Just continue. Kids need years. Why would adult need just 2 or 3 years? Zdravím z Brna. A myslím, že máš dobre lepidlo na slova. Úsměv a gestikulace stačí. Postupně to bude lepší a lepší! 👏👏👏

I dont think I have any English accent, but I do have my own accent that I got from speaking to people from all around the world :-) How does your accent sound?

Coming in audio book. After the first one Learn Czech cases with stories. Newt one - Learn Plural Cases with stories :)

Jo, to máš pravdu, pro Ukrajinky to není těžké, je to také slovanský jazyk. A navíc dost podobný češtině! :) Eliška

@@slowczech Tak jo) ale hodne slov ma jiny vyznam, nekdy je to moc vtipne. Takze v cestine vice slov ma slovansky koreni a to je logicke ale nekdy moc prekvapujici)

Nemýlíte se. "Krokodýlova" je přivlastňovací přídavné jméno v nominativu, které by tedy u genitivu nemělo být uvedeno. Vaše poslední věta je... zajímavá. Nicméně děkuji za to, že jste si udělal(a) čas na zhlédnutí tohoto videa. To mě těší.

Do you see me? Vidíš mě? You are right! But then, the rest need to be explain with a preposition. Overall, I find it passionating but very hard at the same time to compare different language. Because every person feels the language in a different way. What do you think, Davide? :-) Eliška

@@slowczech Sure, though I don't see much feelings in linguistics: it's more of a science. Declensions are a typical way of Indo-European languages to attach grammatical function to a word, by means of a suffix. As sometimes the added meaning of a single suffix is not enough, some languages have evolved using concatenation of suffixes, while most have picked up prefixes, such as prepositions. It is an ongoing process: in English, for example, the forms thou (nominative), thee (accusative), thy (genitive) has turned into the single form: you, but cases still exists for "I" and "he". German still has cases for certain situations. Romance languages, all coming directly from Latin, have gone through a similar process: from 6 cases to basically none. It is quite possible that Czech could go the same way: already there are cases having the same form for most words, but I'm definitely not an expert in Czech. I can only hope about it: less to study :D :D

... right? 😄 Eliška

"na houby" znamená na nic. Učit se česky k ničemu není? To jsi chtěl říct? :) Jsem jiného názoru :) Mnoho našich fanoušků a studentů se učí česky, protože jejich prarodiče nebo praprarodiče byli Češi. Takže se učí česky, aby uctili jejich památku, aby byli blíž svým předkům,... Pro mě osobně to je velmi noblesní a krásný důvod 💚💚💚 Zdraví Eliška

@@slowczech Můj komentář byl trošku sarkastický. Je moc fajn když umím mluvit kostrbatou češtinou s příjemnýmí, sympatickýmí, českamí holkami. A máte taky Becherovku, Nohavicu a Čechomor, Boženou Němcovou a Járou Cimrmana!!! Ale češtinu je moc těžká a nebudu bohatý když umím čist 'Babička', bohužel. Takže pro super-čupr-ultra-turbo-kapitalista učit se česky je fakt k ničemu!

😁😁 Přesně tak!

Souhlas. Popletla jsem to tam 😄protože učím jen přivlastňovací přídavná jména, která jsou pro neslovany stravitelna. Každopádně diky za komentář. Přemýšlím nad updatovanym videem. Uvidíme :) Eliška

How may of them do you really use? What is the purpose and reason of your cases? Is it like in Czech?

@@slowczech we use the 18 on daily basis, the plus 9 are only for few words. For example when you say ‘I’m in Budapest’ in hungarian it’s ‘’BudapestEN vagyok’. But when we want to say ‘I’m in Pécs’ it’s ‘PécsETT vagyok’. I usually say PécsEN, even tho it’s not correct. :) images.app.goo.gl/YWSsq9ixVxX4E15p6 this picture is really helpful, I didn’t find one that separates the 18+9 :)

:-D :-D Exactly! They could have and their life could have been so simple! E.

Because it's local Brno word for Tramvaj. And I prefer it as it's feminine 😊

@@slowczech hahahaha jses Boss Elisko :) use whatever u like, but it was funny for me, bcuz poor guys live in Prague and will search for Salina, and will not find It hahahaha

@@elmanalimammadov3024 🤣🤣 I am spreading the correct Czech words around the whole country!

@@slowczech #brnopride :) hahaaha how is jizdenka ? u call it different to, ze ?

@@elmanalimammadov3024 🤣 když je to měsíční nebo delší jízdenka, máme šalinkartu!