Czechs borrow to widen vocabulary
Radio Prague International - Topic «Czech language course» · Radio Prague International
January 17, 201710m 31s
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How has the Czech language developed over the past four decades? What expressions do we borrow from other languages and which words have fallen into oblivion? These are just some of the question I asked Martin Prošek, the head of the Institute of the Czech language, which has just started to release a new monolingual dictionary of Czech. Its first chapter, containing words starting with the letter A, has just been published in electronic form.