Warmth
From my experience this is the first and largest difference between
Czech and Spanish people. We understand the cordiality from very different points. While in
Spain is good education smile to the person that you just meet, give you two kisses and act close, in
Czech Republic understand the cordiality from another point of view.
Of course the people smile sometimes when you know them but the first thing they will do if they see you smiling is, probably distrust, it is not their custom and they will be thinking: "
Why are you smiling?".
Day to day, the difference is very small, this is only the closeness with which you deal with people, in the south are more stumps, more closer while in the north each one has its own space and must be respected.
At the time of celebrations such as
birthdays, weddings, stag, and so on. They act very formally both the protagonist by giving a little speech of thanks, as the guests who will give the hand, they will want to the best of a very cordial way although it is your husband or son, eventually the situation giving him a kiss on the mouth. Different, isn't it?
Sport
As for the sports
Spain has many champions, but without doubts, is not practiced even half the time or sports that in
Czech Republic. Here each child know how to play any sport, since
criquet until
baseball and they practice often.
They are also addicted to the
hiking and
biking routes, in many cases united routes "pivovar" in "
pivovar" (small
breweries that produce their own beer and are scattered throughout the rural areas of the country), you may one of the reasons is the lack of beach although practiced endless
water sports in lakes and rivers.
At the time of championships and professional sports that most are still we could compare the
Spanish soccer fans with a taste for
hockey in
Czech Republic but not only is assigned to this sport as they watch all sports, since the
Winter Olympic Games until the
tour of Italy.
The weather
As it was to imagine, the time in comparison with
Spain is very different, not so much if compared to the northwest of spanish where I come from.
Anyway, in winter the snow falls until your knees and the cold penetrates until your bones, but during the summer, at least this one through that we are living, the weather does not stop playing: it can be infernally hot as in Madrid in full August or to cloud over and to rain as if you were in Santiago de Compostela, if you are going to visit the country leaves behind the idea of knowing that time is going to do and pay attention to what a volunteer was commenting another day, whenever you go out of house you need a rucksack for the pea jacket, the thongs, a winter jersey and a swimsuit because you will never know that it will be more necessary.
The coffe
While in
Spain there is no house in which the coffee pot is missing, it is already electrical or of those of the whole life a
Czech house has a water kettle for the instant
coffee to which then they add little milk, also the kettle turns out to be very useful to them because they are much more used to have tea that us, although in
Spain every time there are more
tea shops.
But, on the contrary, when you go out to a cafe, "kavarna" in Czech, the coffees letter is immense in difference with Spain, while we take a white coffee, big, cut or alone, in Czech Republic they have the express, the late maquiato, Viennese, Capuchin, frappe, etc. We go that it seems that you are more in Italy than in Czech Republic.
The languages
In the first place I want to say, as you know, that the
Czech and the
Spanish are languages with standards and completely different sounds, as I explain in the
article of basic Czech and Polish.
If we focus on the level of languages in Spain is relatively low and the difference between the two countries is huge (I do not generalize because just like there are people here who do not know communicate more that in
Czech there are spanish who speak seven languages), it is a matter of geographical and historical, as the
Czech Republic is much smaller and is surrounded by a much larger number of countries with different languages (which, in addition, they are very similar).
In this way one
Czech cans communicate with a
Slovak, a Polish, a Ukrainian or Russian but not only that, because during their education have the option to choose between more options: it can be surprising, for example, the people I have met here to study
Spanish during their childhood and adolescence, as many as
English, German, or Russian.
In contrast, in our country not only the level and the hours that are educated in languages are minor, but that the options in the public education are reduced to the
English and French.
