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I would recoment checking film "Vyšší princip" (Highier principle) for true meaning of 17.11.

For the record in the Czech Republic we spank women with willlow at Easter. That means it's a holiday that can be between March 23 and April 26. And in eastern Bohemia, girls spank boys as well. In some regions a week before boys, in some regions after 12 o'clock on the same day, depending on local tradition. Oh by the way... there's a much weirder holiday in April and YESSSS. I'm talking about the witch burnings.

As a native Czech speaker, I can confirm that even after more than 30 years of constant study our beautiful language, I still dare not write my first book. Trust me, I would love to, but I can't do that to my teacher, despite the fact that I am really competent in my native language according to the exams (unlike in English, sorry). Basically, everything's okay. At the age of 14, not even a native speaker can speak decent Czech. This is the essence of our diabolical language. I only found out in my study of Japanese that this is actually part of national defense. If you can't learn your own language without having to listen to the opinion of 4 linguists, then no one can ever fully infiltrate you, because who would want to infiltrate a country where no one can actually speak their own language perfectly? IMPOSSIBLE! Cheers to good fortune.

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th... Also a lot of rule exceptions or entire rules are made to make the language more "euphonic". Thats why you have dvě piva but also dvacet-dva piv and not dva piv or dvacet-dvě piva.

On May you mentioned Mercury, but what about Brian May? :)

No no no, your channel is for us locals :D I love it so much :D

I presume this video will be watched mostly by Czech people for their sadistic amusement from your suffering.

Květen which is May in Czech ... means actually April in Polish ...

That was really fun, i've never noticed some of those things. Had a good laught. Thank you!

You are hilarious... i liked the geography part ... obv i am from Silesia :D

Guys, he KNOWS !!

Dude, I find you funny, ahoj ze Slezska.

Almost all the foreighners have a big problem with pronouncing the Ř sound, it is very different from R. Try looking up someone saying this tonguetwister: "tři sta třicet tři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes tři sta třicet tři stříbrných střech" or "byl jednou jeden řek a ten mi řekl, abych mu řekl, kolik je v Řecku řeckých řek. A já mu řekl, že nejsem řek, abych mu řekl, kolik je v Řecku řeckých řek". It is pretty trivial for us, native speakers. But foreigners would probably have to train it for several years to pronounce it. But try saying "dolar,lira,libra, rubl" repeatedly. This is hard for even me as a native speaker. We have pretty hard tongue twisters.

Our language is Czech revenge for English irregular verbs :)

After that Rocky became a pilot, hence the Let 5

Czech language making violent numbers on foreign speakers. :D My guess for changing roots would be the fact that Czech fluently combines western and eastern influence. You could count years without changing the root actually. But saying "Jedno léto, dvě léta, tři léta, čtyři léta, pět let" and so on sounds really archaic. Or you can go with "roků" past 4 resulting in "pět roků, šest roků" which is technically possible, but nobody speaks like that. :D It's a similar problem as with english that's being taught in our schools. Technically correct, but you'll never hear a native speaker say a word like "Qualitative". It's like having a huge "FOREIGNER" sign taped to your forehead.

Dude educates me about my own language, thats crazy 😂

Borec vytvoril konspirační teorie Bro created a conspirstion theory

Like, sorry dude, but NO ONE will ever prove to me that August is a better name for month than Srpen... Like, AUGUST is SO DISGUSTING NAME!!! 🤮 But the others are okay, I gues... 😅😂

Fun fact. we use different word root for five years, becouse it is a completely different word! The word used for years above five is summer. if you use summers with less than five (meaning years) you sound archaic. if you use years above five you sound like a little child

Props to this guy for trying to even learn this mess :D And hey, dont worry about it. All throughout elementary and high school I got Cs and Ds from Czech exams. I learned how to properly use grammar in written sentences thanks to auto-correcting phones when I was about 17 and I just brute forced my way into not sounding like an absolute idiot. English? That was straight As for me for some reason. Born in Czechia, to Czech parents that didn´t speak any other language. Also - ordering 9 shots instead of 2 shots might be the most Czech thing that ever was (in Moravia at least) so you are getting there!

As for the years. You can use the word 5 ROKŮ, 6 ROKŮ. The word ROK means just year. Grammatically it is correct. It has just become customary to use the word LÉTO, which means summer, for more than five. You can also say 1 LÉTO, 2 LÉTA, 5 LET. They are two different words. The problem with 1 LÉTO is that we don't know if you mean a whole year or just one summer. If you say 5 ROKŮ, it's unusual but clearly understandable.

Oh my, now I feel stupid that I got the joke about Rocky all the way at 7:12 my brain didn't connect roky and Rocky until then. I bursted out laughing at myself :D

Czech is the language spoken in Heaven. Why? Because it takes an eternity to learn!

I guess the use of léto for those higher numbers of years is rooted from the medieval times, where peasants would measure time by natural things, so if 5 summers passed, it was 5 let, so in this case it's somewhat interchangeable. Although it's grammatically correct to use both words for any given number, if you only use the word léto, you sound like an 18th century poet, and if you use only the word rok, you sound like you're from the Silesian region, because that's how it is in the dialect (I personally also say 5, 10, 15 roků instead of let). In the formal form of the language, that 4-5 system is a standard, anything mentioned above would sound informal or archaic. Also, if you're having problems with pronouncing the word čtyři, you can informalise it by saying štyry. It's not formal but it's used in day to day conversations (the Czech language has three officially recognised forms, 1) literary Czech 2) general Czech 3) informal Czech; 1 and 2 are considered formal, although they work a little bit differently - 1 you see in books and hear with politicians and 2 you hear in ordinary people having a conversation, 3 is a nono, because that's the form used by rude drunks and cheeky teens).

Yeah, going out with only one friend makes you look gay and three friends make you look like a double date🤣

I've never heard this dose of Czech humor in English. I'm dying at the mention of Langoše 😂😂😂

A wonderful monologue, Bryan. I think we and neighbors in Bavaria are good at beer because of the old know how of the Celtic Boii that gave name to both lands. Greetings from Pilsen, one km from the breweries, less than one km from Stock Spirits.

As a Czech... why did you do this to yourself

I'll give you a good hint for Ř. You already know our beautiful thundering R. Just say it with your teeth pressing top-on-top (like you do with S), and it will come naturally as Ř is a combo of S and R.

As a native speaker I can explain, the word for beer gets shorter and remain the same after first 4 is to make it easier on people after they start getting plastered .

Let V 😂😂 Top joke, bro

you can say "pět roků" its possible ;) it just sounds a bit strange.

*Me, smirking on another foreigner trying to pronounce ŘEŘICHA:* If he dies, he dies.

Ate two Brute :D Oh noes :D

was wondering wtf is wrong with numbers 2 and 4 xd

Velikonoce are also originally a Celtic festival that was also celebrated in ireland in the past

Czechoslovakia also broke up 4 years after the Velvet Revolution

Karel čtvrtý se to říká

Anebo ještě v množném čísle-jedni,jedny,jedna

Fan facts in Czech because im czech 🇨🇿: 1. Karel IV se původně jmenoval Václav. 2. Existuje český animovaný film o Karlu čtvrtém se známými českými postavami z komiksů čtyřlístek.

Im from northen czechia and i rarely hear "let" as in "pět let" (five years) we ussualy say "pět roků" its not "gramaticaly correct" but gets used way more by younger people here the "let" (years)

The first day of the month ''Duben'' is also called ''April'' in Czech language, and it's the day people pull pranks on each other. Usually you make a prank, as silly as you want, and then when people get mad at you, you say ''April'' and most of them have understanding of what's going on.

As a Czech I can say Czech is not a language. It's mental disease.😂

The Rocky (roky) 4 to Let 5 made me laugh like never in my life

5:07 - 5 let or 5 roků, 6 roků, 7 roků,... 😉🤣also 1 léto, 2 léta, 3 léta or 4 léta 😵‍💫😂 but there are more funnies with junction with ordinal numbers 🥳 1 rok = jeden rok , 1. rok = první rok | 2 roky = dva roky , 2. rok = druhý rok ... ordinal number has same word "rok" 1 léto = jedno léto, 1. léto = první léto | 2 léta = dvě léta, 2. léto = druhé léto ... ordinal number has same word "léto" 1 sklenice = jedna sklenice, 1. první sklenice | 2 sklenice = dvě sklenice, 2. druhá sklenice = druhá sklenice ... ordinal number has same word "sklenice" The Czech language is not easy even for Czechs, let alone for foreigners. 💡To be on the safe side when buying shots at the bar, I recommend showing the number on your fingers.

Brilliant video 😂🇨🇿

Ha! Great stuff.

every time you want to say something is hard in czech, you can probably blame František Palacký. Its probably his fault, the man practically recreated the language from scratch

The reason for some of the problems you will come across is that modern czech is based on an 500 years old form of itself that was artificially adapted to form the new czech language (what we use now), which itself is 250 or so years old, so a lot of the natural development was cut out, creating all sorts of problems (and also its just really wierd if that wasn't enough)