Can anyone help with a translation from Czech?

[Nick Wilkinson]

My G3Grandfather set up a fez-making business in Strakonice, Bohemia - now the Czech Republic. I have received a photo copied section of a book in Czech which covers a lot of relevant ground for me with the only problem that I don't read or write Czech. I have tried using Google translate but there are too many problems with inadequate translations. Is there anyone out there who can help with a translation of 8 pages?
Many thanks in advance.

 

[Heather]

Welcome to the forum Nick, sorry I cannot help you but hopefully someone may be able to, good luck.

 

[Nick Wilkinson]

Thank you heather.

 

[CarolB08]

Hello Nick I can not help with reading or writing Czech but I have success using this website to translate Ukrainian I hope it helps you.
https://translate.google.com/

 

[Nick Wilkinson]

Hi Carol. Thanks for the suggestion; unfortunately Google - and other online translation sites - come up with too many obscure translations and non-grammatical wording that leaves me with trying to guess which of two opposing meanings is correct. Hence my request for a human interface.

 

[canadianbeth]

I have two German friends; would that language be close enough to help? If I remember correctly, one recently mentioned that she grew up near the southeastern border but was still in the western part after the wall. (married a Canadian soldier in the '60s)

 

[CarolB08]

No worries Nick it was just a thought.

 

[Nick Wilkinson]

I have two German friends; would that language be close enough to help? If I remember correctly, one recently mentioned that she grew up near the southeastern border but was still in the western part after the wall. (married a Canadian soldier in the '60s)

I'm afraid not. I am reasonably fluent in German and it is nothing like Czech; German belongs to the germanic language group while Czech is part of the slavic group along with Russian, Serbian etc.
Thanks anyway.

 

[Pauline]

Czech is part of the slavic group along with Russian, Serbian etc.

Polish is not too far removed from Czech, so maybe someone here knows someone who speaks Polish. I don't know about other parts of the world but there is a fairly significant Polish community in the UK, though not all will still speak Polish. My husband has a limited knowledge of Russian but not enough to get much of use out of 8 pages of Czech, I'm afraid.