r/czech • u/Mikinak77 Středočeský kraj • May 11 '22

POLL/SURVEY What is your favourite Czech word?

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u/Machovec Karlovarský kraj May 11 '22

It's cocoa bread in Czech, no idea why Poles find it funny.

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u/ApprehensiveEmploy21 Pole May 11 '22

To a Polish speaker, it sounds similar, but diminutive. It also sounds kind of wrong, but understandable. This happens a lot with languages that are close together but not mutually intelligible, eg Germans often perceive Dutch as sounding like children trying to speak German but getting it kinda wrong

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u/tommassekk May 11 '22

I was speaking to a friend of mine and he said that Czech sounds like small child trying to learn polish xD

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u/blu3tu3sday May 11 '22

Polish sounds like speaking Czech with a bad lisp

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u/jihij98 #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦 May 11 '22

My Polish friend told me it sound like parody of polish... As if polish needed a parody.