Czech
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Czech is the official language of the Czech Republic, the western two thirds of the former Czechoslovakia. It is spoken by about nine and a half million people and belongs to the western branch of Slavic languages.
The Czech spelling system uses special letters for certain sounds; you will also find a few of them in this puzzle, including the following:
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pronounced as the first syllable of the word "yellow." |
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pronounced as the first sound in the word "Czech." |
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pronounced as the first sound in the word "shop." |
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pronounced approximately as the last sound in the word "café." |
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pronounced as the last sound in the word "stew." |
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pronounced approximately as the first sound in the word "argue." |
The following are examples of how to say in Czech what time it is:
| 'five minutes to eight' |  |
| 'ten minutes to eight' |  |
| 'quarter after seven' |  |
| 'seven minutes to eight' |  |
| 'seven minutes after seven' |  |
| 'five minutes after six' |  |
| 'half past seven' |  |
| 'half past eight' |  |
| 'twenty minutes after five' |  |
| 'quarter after nine' |  |
How would you say the following in Czech? (for the purposes of this exercise, you may use the plain letters e, c, s, u, and a in place of the special Czech letters described above):