ABECEDA

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ABECEDA

• Can you guess what this means?

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Sounds that are the same or similar
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Some Cognate Words

• Adresa, akrobat, akr, akt, alkoholik
• Banka, barometr, bomba, bunkr
• Deprese, detektiv, doktor, dynamit
• Efekt, ekvivalent, elektrika, eroze
• Fakt, filozof, fosfor, fraktura, fyzika
• Horor, humor
• Idea, iluze, impuls, invalida, ion
• Kakao, karamel, karotka, klub, kokos

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More Cognate Words

• Laguna, lampa, legenda, leukoplast
• Mapa, maska, megafon, metoda, metr
• Norma, notes, nula, nylon, nymfa
• Onkologie, operovat
• Panteon, paprika, paraple, pasport
• Raketa, rande, reagovat, rentgen
• Sardinka, skaut, spekulant, sportovat
• Tenis, teorie, termit, teror, trumf

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And a few more

• Unie, uniforma, univerzita, utopie, uzurpovat
• Vandr, vanilka, vesta, viadukt, vigvam

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Long vowels that are really long

• Á korál, bengál, referát, tabák
• É dobré pivo
• Ý dobrý
• Í benzín
• Ó flóra, trombón
• Ú úhel
• U domu

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Letters that are really different

• C dekorace, destrukce
• C caj, Ceská republika
• D dábel, ted
• CH technologie, chameleón, chaos
• J hokej, bajonet
• N lan, dan
• R reka, recký

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More letters that are different

• ampon, arm
• T tapat, tukat
• alm, aket, alár, ampión, ánr
• Watch out for these combinations
• d,t,n i,í,e d,t,n i,í,e deti, nic
• b,p,v,f e b,p,v,f je beh, pet
• m e m ne merka, melký

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Common Womens Names

• Alice, Albeta, Aneka, Barbora, Boena, Branka,
  Dagmar, Edita, Elika, Hana, Helena, Jaroslava,
  Jarmila, Jana, Jitka, Jirina, Judita, Kristýna,
  Kveta, Kvetoslava, Libue, Lucie, Ludmila, Marie,
  Milada, Nada, Ruena, Sára, árka, Tereza,
  Vendula, Zdenka, Zlata, Zuzana

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Common Mens Names

• Ale, Antonín, Arnot, Bedrich, David, Filip,
  Jakub, Jan, Jaromír, Jaroslav, Jindrich, Jirí,
  Karel, Leo, Ludvík, Martin, Michal, Mikulá,
  Milan, Oldrich, Ondrej, Pavel, Petr, Radek,
  Richard, Rehor, tepán, Tomá, Václav, Vladimír,
  Vojtech, Zdenek