Dominik Lukeš's blog
Scottish Harvest in Bohemia Wins BCSA Prize
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 2nd, 2009
From a BCSA press release: read more »
Czech Republic Enters the Year Presiding over the EU
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 1st, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Politics
Nobody described the challenges ahead than Radio Netherlands:
International news - Radio Netherlands Worldwide - English
www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/6117... read more »
Czech year in pictures
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: December 27th, 2008
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• History
Czech online newspaper Aktuálně.cz published an excellent overview of the Czech political year 2008 in pictures. Including this picture of the Brother Mašíns' rehabilitation debate. read more »
Books by Čapek out of copyright on 70th anniversary of his death
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: December 26th, 2008
The title says it all really! Thanks to the people at the MobileRead forums. I assume this only applies to his works in Czech rather than the English translations which are more recent and carry their own copyright. read more »
Learn multiple Slavic languages at once with NiceTranslator
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: December 13th, 2008
Nicetranslator.com uses the Google Translate service to give instant response as you type and you can even choose multiple languages at once including Slovak, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, or Croatian. This could be useful for students of Slavonic languages in general but it also shows bits of sentences as you type them in. read more »
Google Announces Czech<->English dictionary - Best Online Tool Yet for Learners
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: December 11th, 2008
Google just released a Czech/English - English/Czech http://www.google.cz/dictionary that is the best online tool I've seen for learners. read more »
Google struggling to translate 'friends' into Czech
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: December 4th, 2008
Categories: Habits and customs
• Idioms
• Language
• Technology
• Vocabulary
• friend
• frienship
• idioms
• Translation
According to Zive.cz, Google.cz is asking the Czech internet community how they would like to translate the now ubiquitous word 'friend' into Czech. This is a real problem. read more »
Google Czech live long, Google Prague, get rich
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: November 27th, 2008
Resuming Czblogging after a hiatus with the amazing news that simply Googling Czech can have beneficial consequences. A new Google mashup StateStats shows correlations between US states' socioeconomic characteristics and the frequency of particular search terms originating from those terms. read more »
Czech crooners (dead and alive) on YouTube
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: July 7th, 2008
Karel Hála, a star of Czech big band pop music since the 1950s just died as reported by Lidové Noviny. Here's a cliop of him and another stallwart of Czech pop Karel Gott.
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