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Dialogue 3.

A) Hey. What’s the matter? Are you ok?

B) No. I don’t feel well. How did you know something was wrong?

A) Well you rubbed your neck several times. That’s how I knew.

B) Wow you’re good at reading body language. My neck hurts and my back hurts too.

A) Why don’t we take a break?

B) I think you’re right. Let’s take a break. Thank you for your advice.

Dialogue 2.

A) Hi. What’s the matter? You look sad.

B) I feel sad because I’m lonely. I don’t have any friends because my classmates are not friendly.

A) Well, If I were you, I’d join a club.

B) Join a club? What kind of club?

A) Well, what are you interested in?

B) I’m interested in hiking.

A) Well why don’t you join a hiking club? You can make friends easily if you join a club.

B) That’s a good idea. Thank you for your advice.

Dialogue 1

A) What’s the matter? You don’t look happy.

B) Well my friend won’t talk to me. She’s angry with me because I forgot her birthday.

A) Well, maybe she doesn’t want to talk you right now because she’s still angry. If I were you, I’d write her a letter.

B) That’s a good idea. I think you’re right. I’ll write her a letter to apologize.
Thanks for your advice.

254 Thank you very much for your kindness.
522 Could you take a picture of me? / Would you take a picture of us?
1225 Look! Chris is getting on the bus now.

She had been in a very bad way for quite some time by then. She had renal tuberculosis, which is a terribly serious disease, and both of her kidneys had been badly damaged before it was detected. The doctor told Father, in no uncertain terms, that the end would come within a hundred days. He said there was nothing he could do. There was nothing we could do, either, of course, but watch in silence as a month passed, another month passed, and even as the hundredth day approached.
My sister, not knowing how close to death she was, reminded in relatively good spirits, and, though she was confined to bed day and night, she cheerfully sang songs and joked and let me spoil her, and whenever I reflected that she had only thirty of forty days to live, that this was absolutely certain, it was as if my entire body was being pierced by needles, and I thought I would go mad with the pain. March, April, May...Yes, it was the middle of May. I'll never forget that day.
The meadows and mountains were adorned with fresh green, and it had grown so warm that one almost felt like shedding one's clothing. The new green was so brilliant in the sunlight that it stung my eyes as I walked along a meadow path, turning this and that over in my mind, head lowered and one hand stuffed in my sash, and all my thoughts were such painful ones that I was actually trembling and felt I could hardly breathe. Then, from beneath the spring earth at my feet, came an eerie booming, other-worldly sound, faint yet enormous, like giant drums being in hell below, a steady, unbroken rumbling, and I, not knowing what that horrifying sound might be, wondered if I hadn’t indeed lost my mind. I stood frozen in my tracks until I found myself unable to stand any longer and, with a cry of anguish, collapsed on the grass and wept and wept.
I later learned the strange and terrifying sound had, in fact, been the cannons of warships under the command of admiral Togo, engaged in the battle that was to sink the entire Russian Baltic fleet. So, you see, it was right about the time when all this happened. And Navy Day is just around the corner again, isn't it?

Compared to English or Romance languages, Czech has a rather simple set of tenses. They are present, past, and future.
Past is used in almost all instances of past action, and replaces every past tense in English (past simple, past perfect and in some cases the present perfect). The past tense is usually formed by affixing an -l- on the end of the verb, sometimes with a minor (rarely significant) stem change. After adding the -l-, letters are added in order to agree with the subject (-a for feminine, -o for neuter, -i, -y or -a for plural).
The present tense is also used to describe ongoing actions which continue to the present, where in English a present perfect would be used, for instance, "I've been doing this for three hours". In Czech, as there is no present perfect tense, the present indicative is used and is directly translated as "I do this for three hours". However, when the present perfect is used to denote past actions without a time reference (e.g. "I've been to Italy three times"), the past tense would be used.
There are also sometimes second forms of certain verbs (like to go, to do, etc.) that indicate a habitual or repeated action. These are known as iterative forms. For instance, the verb jít (to go by foot) has the iterative form chodit (to go regularly).
There is also no tense shifting (as in reported speech). E.g. "He loves her" -> "He said he loved her", the time is shifted from present to past. In Czech it is "Má ji rád" -> "Řekl, že ji má rád". The "má rád" implies present tense in both cases.
The future tense is another fickle part of Czech grammar. Often, present tense verbs are only used to denote future actions. For instance, the verb "vyhodit" (throw out) appears like a normal present tense, but actually indicates a future action. Vyhodit is actually a modified form of the verb "hodit" (to throw), with the prefix "vy-" added. The addition of such prefixes almost always changes the aspect of the verb to the perfective aspect. This form of the verb indicates a completed action, so either the action is already completed (past) or yet to be completed (future). A different form, "vyhazovat", indicates an ongoing action (imperfective aspect) and has all three tenses.
Many verbs in the Czech language undergo such modifications, allowing a single verb to spawn multiple meanings.

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century. Czech is similar to and mutually intelligible with Slovak and, to a lesser extent, to Polish and Sorbian.
Czech is widely spoken by most inhabitants of the Czech Republic. As given by appropriate laws, courts and authorities act and make out documents and executions in the Czech language (financial authorities also in the Slovak language). Czech can be used in all official proceedings also in Slovakia as granted by Article 6 of Slovak Minority Language Act 184/1999 Zb.
People who do not speak Czech have the right to get an interpreter. Instructions for use in Czech must be added to all marketed goods. Regarding knowledge of other languages in the Czech Republic, English and German are the most common foreign languages studied and used. Russian is also spoken, but to a much lesser extent than it was prior to the fall of Communism.
The right to one's own language is guaranteed by the Constitution for all national and ethnic minorities.
Czech is also one of the 23 official languages in the European Union (since May 2004).
Speakers of Czech and Slovak usually understand both languages in their written and spoken form, thus constituting a pluricentric language, though some dialects or heavily accented speech in either language might present difficulties to speakers of the other (in particular, Czech speakers may find Eastern Slovak dialects difficult to comprehend). Younger generations of Czechs living after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993 (therefore generally less familiar with Slovak) might also have some problems with a certain number of words and expressions which differ considerably in the two languages, and with false friends. Nevertheless, these differences do not impede mutual intelligibility significantly.

In the Czech Republic two distinct variants or interdialects of spoken Czech can be found, both corresponding more or less to geographic areas within the country. The first, and most widely used, is "Common Czech", spoken especially in Bohemia. It has some grammatical differences from "standard" Czech, along with some differences in pronunciation. The most common pronunciation changes include -ý becoming -ej in some circumstances, -é becoming -ý- in some circumstances (-ej- in others). Also, noun declension is changed, most notably the instrumental case. Instead of having various endings (depending on gender) in the instrumental, Bohemians will just put -ama or -ma at the end of all plural instrumental declensions. Currently, these forms are very common throughout the entire Czech republic, including Moravia and Silesia. Also pronunciation changes slightly, as the Bohemians tend to have more open vowels than Moravians. This is said to be especially prevalent among people from Prague.
The second major variant is spoken in Moravia and Silesia. Nowadays it is very close to the Bohemian form of Common Czech. This variant has some words different from its standard Czech equivalents. For example in the dialect spoken in Brno, tramvaj (streetcar or tram) is šalina (originating from German "ElektriSCHELINIE"). Unlike in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia tend to have more local dialects varying from place to place, however just as in Bohemia, most have been already heavily influenced and mostly replaced by Common Czech. Everyday spoken form in Moravia and Silesia would be a mixture of remnants of old local dialect, some Standard Czech forms and especially Common Czech. The most notable difference is a shift in used prepositions and case of noun, for example k jídlu (to eat - dative) (as in German zum Essen) becomes na jídlo (accusative), as it is in Slovak na jedlo. It is a common misconception that the use of Standard Czech in everyday situations is more frequent than in Bohemia. The Standard Czech became standardized by the Czech national revivalists in the 19th century, based on an already three hundred year old translation of the Bible (Bible of Kralice) using an older variant of the then-current language (for example, preferring -ý- to -ej-). These Standard forms are still common in spoken language both in Moravia and Silesia. Some Moravians and Silesians therefore tend to say that they use "proper" language, unlike their Bohemian compatriots.

used, organized, listened, opened,plate, walked, taught, adressed, called, said, called, cigarette, case, ate, asked, strange

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