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ÚJOP Infopoint: How is the studying organized at your institute?
Artem: In a pretty easy way, actually. There are compulsory subjects, unlike, for example,
students are free to choose their own subjects. We have some kind of base, a program that
and to which some elective subjects can be added, such as, for example, chemistry related
or, if someone is interested in marketing, a lot of subjects about marketing; if someone i
finance or, for example, HR, all of this is there. All this, including good teaching, so i
in a pretty cool way.
ÚJOP Infopoint: That means, despite the fact that you study at a university of chemistry a
you do not have compulsory subjects in chemistry and it is just an elective subject?
Artem: Yes, this is only an elective subject and this is a huge advantage of VŠCHT, in con
for example, ČZU (University of Life Sciences Prague [ URL "https://www.czu.cz/en"] ), whe
compulsory agricultural subjects that the majority, or rather, not quite everyone likes. T
significant plus of VŠCHT.
ÚJOP Infopoint: Well, in that case, what are you studying here, at Economics and Managemen
of chemistry and technology?
Artem: The first year was mainly focused on enterprise management and economy itself – a v
subject that allows students to understand the processes that occur in an enterprise. But
management, there was management psychology, which is also a very interesting subject, bec
future some people will have to hire somebody or work with a team. Very useful. And also,
was mathematics, English. Later, English will remain, but we will be able to choose to div
into two parts and choose another language as the second part: Spanish, French, German, or
English, there is even Russian – and continue learning some other language as well.
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ÚJOP Infopoint: Well, obviously student life is not limited to studies. For some students,
probably a smaller part of the entire student life. How does that work for you there?
Artem: It is difficult to notice this student life besides studying subjects at first, but
on some other platforms, websites, the information about some events that take place there
regularly. I myself actively participate, both as a volunteer and also as a VŠCHT employee
pictures, I am constantly invited to some events. I even get paid a scholarship for my hel
them, which is insanely cool. You can, even though just a little, but work part-time at th
itself.
ÚJOP Infopoint: So, you are now finishing the first year, which means that you have alread
well, you are at the end of the second examination period now. That is, the first one has
place, you have passed the first exams sometime this winter, in January-February, and now
them for the second time. What is it like to take exams at a Czech university?
Artem: It’s not that difficult if you have some kind of a system. Attending your classes s
just listening and delving into the lectures, nothing extra, nothing more is required. Som
in the subject that is taught to you in a course, and, probably, the biggest problem is st
barrier. Because people who misunderstood something somewhere and are afraid to ask or don
do it correctly, they have it all building up like a snowball and, thereby, later it all o
an exam. And there is no longer that much time, there are no longer that many opportunitie
whole course, the whole semester. Therefore, if you approach the study of a subject system
me, no difficulties should arise.
ÚJOP Infopoint: Basically, like everywhere else, it seems to me that in this regard, Czech
are no different from any other ones. The only difference between them is that you have to
And this is always such a big question. Often parents, when they call or write to us, tryi
they say: “Well, how is it actually? Yeah, it is possible to imagine studying at a univers
speak Czech all the time… In general, is it actually difficult to master Czech at all and
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Artem: It is impossible to master the language, because it is a never-ending process. You
a certain speed, and this speed, I would say, heavily depends on the language environment.
examples of how Russian-speaking people come to a university and simply lock themselves up
of balloons of their own and do not speak Czech. They speak when it’s necessary, absolutel
it’s like walking into a store, saying “Dobrý den!” and that’s all. Therefore, the languag
developing after language courses and sometimes even deteriorates, unfortunately, simply b
not use it in practice. But if you use it every day, if you communicate, consume some info
listen to podcasts, watch movies, despite the fact that Czech dubbing does not sound very
are some Czech films and watching them, I would say, is a must in order to develop not onl
spoken language, but also a little bit of standard Czech, will also be useful.
ÚJOP Infopoint: By the way, on our blog you can find several articles that also tell exact
ways to learn Czech [ URL "https://blog.ujop.cuni.cz/category/czech-language-tips/"] in a
classes that you will have at school. These are podcasts, these are films, these are some,
and articles. Make sure to check out our blog, you’ll find it all there. Maybe a couple mo
from you? It’s just that I was told that you have a very good pronunciation of the Czech l
even Czechs do not always immediately distinguish you from themselves, let’s put it like t
achieve this?
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Artem: There is an accent anyway. I would just say that some people don’t hear it that muc
perceives it differently, but some people say that it is more of a Slovak accent, some say
some kind of accent, but it is not really clear which one. For example, my math teacher sa
not believe that I was a foreigner till the end, despite the fact that my first and last n
Czech. But the most important thing is to listen carefully to what Czech people say and tr
I tried this technique that I invented myself: choose a character, a person you like, and
some specific phrases they said as often as possible, sometimes even in your head. It just
remember how the muscles work, how the tongue works. And just do it for a long time and gr
just adopt some kind of accent from this particular character.
But there is also another life hack, I don’t know why it works, but when Czech people spea
everything in the neck is very tense. And this is exactly the kind of thing that Czechs of
the Russian language is very soft for them, and when a Russian speaker starts speaking Cze
is transferred, and therefore, it needs to be somehow changed a little into more hardness,
consonants. And this just helps to feel some kind of tension in the neck, and because of t
also improves greatly.
ÚJOP Infopoint: That’s a very interesting life hack, I never thought about it, that there
tension, I’ll have to monitor myself to make sure it’s true. Well, I think that basically
everything that we wanted. We hereby say goodbye. Thank you very much for coming. Bye ever
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