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Monday, April 26, 2021
VĚSTNÍK
Slovanská Podporující Jednota Státu Texas
Část
Česká
ROČNÍK 109 ČISLO 8 26.duben.2021
Podpora ★ Lidskost ★ Bratrstvi´ BENEVOLENCE
HUMANITY
BROTHERHOOD
Uředni orgán SPJST ★ Založené roku 1897
2. Memorize the conjugation of býti - to be. 3. Classify the nouns that are given in the vocabulary as to their gender. 4. Place the correct demonstrative adjective tento, tato, toto, before each noun in the vocabulary. S
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Read the following verse. See if you can translate it: Pohádka
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Učme se česky Let Us Study Czech Lekce čtvrtá Lesson 4 Read the following out loud. Get your parents, grandparents, relatives, or friends to help you with the pronunciation; do them together. Clip and save each lesson; compile them into notebook form. Kam jdete? - Where are you going? Žák není doma - The pupil is not at home. Mám hlad. - I am hungry. Co je to? - What is that? Co je toto? - What is this? S
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Slovníček - Vocabulary zahrada - garden péro - pen žák - pupil kde - where (no action involved) kam - where to (whither - with action) ne - no mapa - map hlad - hunger tabák - tobacco banka - bank mladá - young (f) stará - old (fem.) a - and ale - but škola - school doma - at home pojď sem - come here jsem - I am
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Mluvnice - Grammar 1. Conjugation of the verb býti - to be: 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
jsme - I am jsi - you are je - he, she, or it is Plural jsme - we are jste - you are jsou - they are
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2. The Demonstrative Adjectives The demonstrative adjective “this” is translated in Czech by ten, to, tato, and toto. Tento is always used with masculine nouns; tato with feminine; and toto with neuter nouns. 3. The Personal or Subject Pronouns 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
Singular já - I ty - you on - he ona - she ono - it
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my - we vy - you oni - they (masc.) ony - they (fem.) ona - they (neuter) S
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Homework 1. Copy the expressions and vocabulary into a notebook and memorize them.
Proč maminko, se chvěje ta bříza bílá? Poslouchá, co si ptáci povídají. Co, matko, sí ptáci povídají? Jak pod večerem je víla postrašila. A jak je víla postrašila? Honila bílou holubičku v háji. Byla by se jí v tůni utopila. Jak by se jí tůni utopila? Chtěla tam zobnout hvězdu spadlou z nebe. Zdaž, matičko, tu hvězdu vylovila? To nevím, dítě - ale když zas k líci ta víla tiskla bílou holubici, tu zlíbala jí tak, jak teď já tebe! ~ J.V. Sládek —SPJST—
Czech Heritage Museum in Temple hosts “The Bonfire of Liberties” exhibit through June The Czech Heritage Museum and Genealogy Center’s temporary exhibit, “The Bonfire of Liberties: Censorship of the Humanities,” an exhibition by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities will continue through June. This exhibit includes Czech themes on censorship such as Charter 77, the document Vaclav Havel wrote in 1977, protesting the arrest of the rock band “Plastic People of the Universe.” Easily understood books on Charter 77 are available for sale by the Museum. A video from the Library of Congress is available on the Museum’s home page which features Gábor Demszky, a Hun-
garian sociologist dedicated to the plight of the Roma, who was punished for signing Charter 77 by having his research license suspended. He continued his dissident writings and published them through the samizdat method of underground publication. He speaks on the topic of samizdat. “The Bonfire of Liberties” gives an overview of censorship in its various guises over time. It examines the struggle between those who want to censor difficult, controversial, and revolutionary material from sensitive viewers and those who want to protect the freedoms of all people to read, view, and think for themselves. The exhibit includes information on Venus of Dolní Věstonice, one of the oldest known ceramic articles in the world. The Venus was found near Brno, Moravia, and is dated to approximately 30,000 BCE. The Venus of Dolní Věstonice suffered censorship by an East Texas newspaper in the not-so-distant past. Susan Chandler Czech Heritage Museum Executive Director —SPJST—
Czech Heritage Museum, Temple expresses thanks The Czech Heritage Museum and Genealogy Center in Temple would like to thank the members of SPJST Lodge 160, San Angelo and SPJST Lodge 107, Floresville for these recent memorial gifts: In memory of Joyce Pelech by SPJST Lodge 107, Floresville In memory of George Zidek by SPJST Lodge 107, Floresville In memory of Stanley Hejl by SPJST Lodge 160, San Angelo Susan Chandler Museum Director Czech Heritage Museum and Genealogy Center —SPJST—
