My presentation

I have already began thinking about my presentation. I intend to show as much as I can in 5 minutes. I should talk about my motivation, my process, my progress, and my future plans. I will have to explain mostly how I had to change my process and my perceptions due to the difficulties I encountered. This part is important because the audience can see the idea I had in my mind as I began and the reality of my journey. Another important section will be my motivations. The audience will be able to see how I think and what's important to me.

How heritage connects

As time trudges along it has forced me to think of my presentation. I would like to do a section on my motivations for choosing to try and learn the Czech language. I want to focus on my family and my heritage, this is very important to me which is how I made my decision. I love getting in touch with all my family from the Czech requblic, the ukraine, poland, etc. I like knowing these people from my ethnic nations, and what their lives are like because I get to understand my ancestors, how they lived, and how they became who they were.

Wacky declensions

Sorry for not posting in a long while guys it's been pretty rough road. But I'm back now learning the extremely confusing language of the Czech Republic. I am currently working on something called a declension. This is a a very wacky grammar technique that changes nouns, adjectives and pronouns. Czech has 7 cases, which means a word can have 14 possible forms! I am still having fun, but I will admit to my readers that it kind of overwhelming. I mean why does someone need 14 different ways to say "house"? I will not let that deter me, I truly want to go to Prague, sit down at a local bar, and in flawless Czech, order a pivo.

Learning the ins and outs

I have began my research of the czech language by analyzing the pronunciations of diffderent leetters and accents in the language. Some things are easy because they are the same things in english. Others are more challenging because you have recognize which pronunciation of the letter to use, for example just "a" is a short a such as in "ant". But "â" is a long a such as in "are". Yet other letters are more difficult, like "ř" does not have an english equivalent so i have determine how i think it actually sounds. The book in which i am learning from says its sounds almost like a "rsh" sound. But i am having a great time speaking and memorizing works, i don't know why but czech is a very fun language to speak due to its gutteral and deep pronunciations. Most importantly i am as interested as ever to be studying this diverse language!

starting off

As you may know I changed my project from learning 3 languages in 3 months to only learning Czech. The other languages I would've tried to learn are Hebrew and Japanese. These languages have no special meaning to me, not like czech. My descendants were from Czechoslovakia and I view myself as heavily czech. At family gatherings such as Easter, and Christmas we have a lot of czech traditions like, drinking shots of slivovitza and braiding slahazka.
I have started researching different learning methods on the internet. There are many options on the app store and my babička gave me a book on learning Czech. I will probably get some English to czech books to study also.