Czech Typing lesson

    Nic’s guide to learning to type Czech:

    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.

    1. Foukat ze severu - blow from the north
    2. Východ východ = East sunrise
    3. Západ západ = west sun setting
    4. Na jih od hlavního města = south of the capital
    5. Nebudu utrácet víc, než vydělam = I will not spend, more than I earn
    6. Rychlost psaní = typing speed
    7. Zpět do budoucnosti = back to the future
    8. Lev, čarodějnice a skříň = the lion, the witch and the wardrobe
    9. 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.

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    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

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