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Even names of towns can be pronounced incorrectly very easily. Consider the name of the town [[Olomouc]], which is pronounced ''ollo-moats''.

Here are the main differences from regular English pronunciation:

c – ts, as in cats, even if it comes at the beginning of the word

č – ch, as in chin

ch – soft, as in the Scottish word, loch

j – y, as in yellow (Y is also pronounced the same way, but is very rare)

ň – nya, as in onion

r – a rolled R sound

š – sh, as in shoe

ť – tya, as in stew

w – v

It’s also worth remembering that in Czech the emphasis is nearly always on the first syllable of a word, and hardly ever on its second or third syllable.