Czech out the Language

We didn't know any words in Czech, and our Turkish phrases were suddenly useless. There seem to be a lot of long words, and not nearly enough vowels.

However, we heard a lot of English around us -in the tourist areas there was probably more English than any other in the babble. And in every shop there seemed to be at least one person who could speak some English.


Some of the words we saw on signs were quite amusing to us, like this road sign.

There seemed to be a fondness for words ending in 'y', such as "banany" - can you guess what that is?

There were a lot of pictures to help, and I think that a plastic bag is a "sacky", and a shop is something like "obchody".

Saying 'thank you' sounds something like "dickwee".

And then, of course, some signs were actually in English. Apparently we had to stop before heading through this fence.

There was an ice skating arena next to the bus station.


Big place, looking very new, but totally deserted at this time.

Obviously sometimes the place is packed, and there are security issues. There was a huge sign to inform us in detail what we could not take into the arena.



To be more specific (in English):