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Thank you for this explanation. It will help me a bit more. My last couple of lessons I had with my Czech teacher we touched the perfective and imperfective verbs and for me it was the most dificult and frustrating part of grammar we handled so far. The usage in Czech has so much more differences compared to my native Dutch. Yesterday we agreed we will stop learning these verbs from now on from the grammar book and first mainly focus on using it in phrases as you mentioned as well.
When I first started learning Czech, understanding the difference between perfective and imperfection was also the most difficult for me. I had to make up my mind to simply ignore it and keep learning. I ignored this concept until I reached about A2 and just now am I staring to grasp it.
@paulterpstra6705 I can imagine the concept of perfective and imperfective verbs can feel really foreign. Sometimes it helps to serve the grammar bit by bit so that you can slowly digest it, sometimes it helps to abandon the grammar altogether and simply learn the phrases that you can use daily. You can always go back to the rules and exceptions later, when you feel like it. Držím palce!
@@CzechingWithKatrina That is great too! I think, since everyone's brain/mind works differently, it would not be fair to say what's a "good way" and "bad way" to learn Czech (or any other language). As long as you're making steps forward, no matter how tiny they are, you're learning!
@@CzechbyZuzka Děkuji Zuzko! I was recently thinking how I learned speaking fluently German as a child. We lived close to German border and I mainly watched German TV. Only in secondary school I learned the grammar, but it was very easy as I already knew what sounds correctly and what not. The Czech I remember from my childhood at my grandparents in the 70's and 80's is too limited. But recently I started watching old for me nostalgic shows like Arabela and Pan Tau again to get more in touch daily with the language again. Maybe you have good suggestions of programs with daily usable not too complex Czech?
Thanks for the video. The 3rd example, Do třídy jsem příšel jako poslení is a difficult one for me. The word "jako - like" often stumps me because it's used where we would never use it in English. I wrongly translated it as "I came to class like last time." But according to your translation, it actually reads like, "I came to class like the last one." Which is why the word "jako" often stumps me because "I came to class like the last one" doesn't mean I was the last one in English. In that context, it would mean an approximation. So "I was like the last one... I could have been 3rd or 2nd to last". It just goes to show, we can't do a literal translation, we just have to accept how things are phrased in Czech. It was the same for employment. "Pracuju jako doktor". A literal translation would be "I work like a doctor" which means I'm not actually a doctor but something like that. 🙃🙂
Katko, I'm not surprised the word "jako" throws you off. It can work both as "like" and "as" (and also "such as" when giving examples). That's why Czechs sometimes have trouble understanding the difference between "like" and "as." This will be another great topic to discuss in a video, thank you! If we translate "jako poslední" as "AS the last one," it might make more sense, but still... Better learn it as an expression. The funny thing is, we can also say that without "jako." - přijít (jako) poslední - be the last one to arrive: Do třídy jsem přišla poslední. - přijít (jako) první - be the first one to arrive
You mention that přicházet is somewhat formal and not so common. Is that true also for přijíždět, its vehicular counterpart? And for its opposite, odcházet?
Dear Zuzka, I am wondering if you can make a video explaining short versus long pronouns. I'm on chapter 16 of krok za krokem 1, and I don't understand the need for the 2 different types. I looked through your videos and couldn't find what I was looking for, but please let me know if I missed it! Thank you for all of your amazing work.
So far, I have this video I published a few months ago. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-luNMc1DUSm8.html Here I explain how the various types of personal pronouns work. Let me know if that helped!
@@alana595 I see. Some of my videos require more attention. It helps to watch them a couple of times after a short break so that the information "sinks in." I'm glad it's clearer now. It will get better over time. Držím palce!
If you have an appointment with someone in an office building, what do you say at the reception? Přijdu pro paní/pana X or Přišel jsem pro paní/pana X. ?
If you say _"Jdu pro paní/pana X,"_ it means that once that person comes, you will go together somewhere else (maybe you will show him/her around, take them for lunch, etc.). It's more likely you would use this phrase when picking up a child from the kindergarten/school: _"Dobrý den, jdu (si) pro Marečka."_ _"Zítra (si) přijdu pro Sofinku o hodinu déle."_
@@CzechbyZuzka Thank You! I saw your example Jdu pro baliček when you are picking up a parcel in a parcel shop, but what do you actually say at the reception when you have an appointment with someone in an office? You are visiting the person.
We could say that "hned jak" (informal) is the same as "jakmile" (more formal). _"Zavolám, až přijdu do práce"_ is possible, there is a slight difference: I'll call when (once) I get to work. _"Zavolám hned, jak přijdu do práce"_ - I'll call as soon as I get to work.
"Si" here is used as an indirect object (dative): "I'm coming to pick up MY OWN package," or literally "package to myself." "Si" works in place of a possessive pronoun (svůj/můj) which we wouldn't use here. Just like when you say: "Čistím si zuby" (I'm brushing "my own" teeth). If you wanted to say: "I'm going to pick up your package," it would be: "Jdu ti pro balíček." You could also say "Jdu pro balíček," not mentioning whose package that is. I hope this explanation helped!
