Czech Typing lesson
If you can touch type, you will already have a grasp of where the numbers are on a keyboard. When you switch your keyboard to Czech, the positions of numbers will be taken by the letters in the Czech alphabet which have additional marks on them.
Instead of
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
+ ě š č ř ž ý á í é will appear.
So, based on a handy system of mnemonics, below is a suggestion of how these characters might be remembered.
ě = ye, 2 yellow yetti,
š = sh, 3 sheds,
č= ch, 4 churches,
ř=rsh, 5 rushes rustle by the side of a řeka river
ž= ssh, 6 babies sleeping, 6 shushes
ý= iii, 7
á=aaa, 8 sheep báááááááá
í=iii, 9
é=air 0 aero or zéé zoo
ú = square brackets open
ů= semicolon
ň= shift plus then letter n. ň
?= comma with shift.
I have now, however lost my colon, slash and quotation marks. Hmm.
- Foukat ze severu - blow from the north
- Východ východ = East sunrise
- Západ západ = west sun setting
- Na jih od hlavního města = south of the capital
- Nebudu utrácet víc, než vydělam = I will not spend, more than I earn
- Rychlost psaní = typing speed
- Zpět do budoucnosti = back to the future
- Lev, čarodějnice a skříň = the lion, the witch and the wardrobe
- Napaldo mě, že = it crossed my mind that…
Also found a nifty little tool from Seznam - if I point at a word on the Internet, a little box comes up translating it into Czech for me. Which reminds me, I need to put Radio Karolina on.
nicola said,
September 6, 2006 @ 10:28 am
To je dobry napad - it’s a good idea
Budeme to tak delat - let’s do that
Pozdravuj Hilary - say hello to Hilary