Ano, Ne = Yes, No
As confusing as this may seem, "ano" in Czech means "yes", but "ne" sounds more naturally "no". Anyway today I had a great international experience. After today's sessions ended and we rested at the hotel for a while, a group of us arranged to meet at the "recepce" to go for a walk and dinner. So the group included me, 2 Czechs (one from Brno and one from Prague), one from Serbia, one from Slovenia, one from Hong Kong, 2 from South Africa (one originally Indian) and one from Russia. The sum of languages we could all say we know (with varying degrees of fluency from native tongues to fairly basic knowledge) amounted to about 15. Amazing, huh? These included: Czech, English, French, German, Russian, Slovenic, Serbian, Africaan, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Hausa, and even Icelandic.
And we did some more walking around today, the architecture in the city is very interesting, you can see a lot of history everywhere. The highlight of course was the Cathedral of St. Paul and St. Peter, it's very nice, although we could only see it from the outside since it was already closed.
And a small piece of information on the Czech traditions in Christmas: they eat fish and potatoes.
One of the nice things too is that the Serbian girl has been to Egypt before (Sharm el Sheikh) and she loved it, one Czech guy studied Arabic in Prague and stayed in Cairo for 2 years, and everyone I talk to is really eager to visit Egypt one day. That's nice, isn't it? :)
And another participant just came today to the workshop, and it turned out to be someone from Reading University whom I emailed about one and a half years ago to ask about his PhD thesis, which was corpus-based, and he sent it to me and we exchanged a couple of emails. It's a small world. He remembered me and we had a nice chat.
Mai
And we did some more walking around today, the architecture in the city is very interesting, you can see a lot of history everywhere. The highlight of course was the Cathedral of St. Paul and St. Peter, it's very nice, although we could only see it from the outside since it was already closed.
And a small piece of information on the Czech traditions in Christmas: they eat fish and potatoes.
One of the nice things too is that the Serbian girl has been to Egypt before (Sharm el Sheikh) and she loved it, one Czech guy studied Arabic in Prague and stayed in Cairo for 2 years, and everyone I talk to is really eager to visit Egypt one day. That's nice, isn't it? :)
And another participant just came today to the workshop, and it turned out to be someone from Reading University whom I emailed about one and a half years ago to ask about his PhD thesis, which was corpus-based, and he sent it to me and we exchanged a couple of emails. It's a small world. He remembered me and we had a nice chat.
Mai
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