Learning
Czech & Slovak ... Online Dictionaries ...
Czech
and Slovak TTF for Windows ... Guide to Pronunciation
... Test Your Czech & Slovak ... Textbooks
... Dictionaries ... and
some humor
LEARNING
CZECH & SLOVAK
- Learn Czech in the Czech Republic. Contact Mr. Smekal, who organizes various courses: smekal@oudec.osu.cz
- Czech. Penn-in Prague. Univ. of Pennsylvania language courses
- Slovak at Ohio State. A program called "TELELANG" - distance learning. Slavic Dept. office: 614-688-3107
- Slavic and EE studies at Chicago University
- Intensive Language Programs section of the AATSEEL. EE languages
- Classes in beginning, intermediate, advanced and conversational Czech as well as beginning and intermediate Slovak will be offered. For more information, contact Dolores Zajicek Gentes, (410) 435-1317. A Community Service Announcement from:
The Czech and Slovak Heritage Association of Maryland, Inc.P.O. Box 24552, Baltimore, MD 21214
ONLINE
DICTIONARIES
- English-Slovak-English - online. You can also order software.
- English-Czech
- Czech-English and English-Czech. About 140 000 expressions
- English-Slovak
- Czech-English - slang expressions
OTHER SOURCES
OF INFORMATION
- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and EE languages - you can also access a list and abstracts of dissertations on linguistics and literature subjects.
- School of Slavonic and EE studies. In UK.
- Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literature. The George Washington University,Washington, D. C. 20052. E-mail: campora@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Olga Campora)
TTF
FOR WINDOWSCzech and Slovak fonts, language software, spellcheckers, etc. can be ordered from BSP Service Solutions.
Czech and Slovak TTF for Windows applications (no special drivers necessary). Contact Martin Gregor at: mpgregor@aol.com
Anguished English
The following excerpt is from Richard Lederer's book Anguished English. (The name of the chapter is `Lost in Translation.') Lederer is a teacher/lecturer of English and has compiled things written by his students or their parents that have created English language-related or history- related humor. Here are some signs and notices written in English that were discovered throughout the world.
In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such a thing is please not to read notis.
In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
In a Leipzig elevator: Do not enter lift backwards, and only when lit up.
In a Belgrade hotel elevator: To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.
In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: Not to perambulate the corridors during the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
On the menu of a Polish hotel: Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.
In a Rhodes tailor shop: Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.
From the Soviet Weekly: There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 150,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.
In a Zurich hotel: Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.
In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
In a Rome Laundry: Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.
In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency: Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no miscarriages.
Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand: Would you like to ride on your own ass?
In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take you bags and send them in all directions.
In a Budapest zoo: Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.
In the office of a Roman doctor: Specialist in women and other diseases.
In an Acapulco hotel: The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
In a Tokyo shop: Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are best in the long run.
From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner: Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself.
On a sign in a ferry in San Juan Harbor: In case of emergency, the lifeguards are under the seats in the center of the vessel.
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