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Regarding Czech - the Colloquial series | ||
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| vaasha Tetraglot Newbie Czech Republic lelaon.com Joined 5787 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, Norwegian, Finnish Studies: Welsh | Message 9 of 15 20 June 2009 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Best would be to find more Czech friends. I'm native Czech and we've a colleague in job who is British but knows Czech quite good. She did not speak so much, but because we're often chating in Czech in the office and we're not hesitate to speak Czech with her she's doing really great improvements. No extra grammar, no charts anything just trying to speak.
I have the same experience myself in both Finnish and English. I learned and learned but what I started to speak it was not easy at the beginning but after a while I felt more confortable using the language. Just speak, because this experience you won't find in any book. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| alena sunavska Octoglot Newbie United Kingdom londonlang Joined 5551 days ago 5 posts - 26 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, Greek, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, German Studies: Hindi | Message 10 of 15 05 October 2009 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I truly believe the best option for you personally would be if you could find a Czech friend/girlfriend who speaks no English at all. It would be excellent if you were lucky enough to meet someone from outside Prague who maybe works there but goes back home to the village for the weekends. You could go with her. Once you experience the full Czech environment where 15 people try to talk to you in Czech and nobody speaks any English you will be forced to apply the maximum knowledge of the language you have achieved so far and everything will start coming to place. You will not be shy as you would be if the person in front of you could speak English. It will be purely about your survival and nothing else. So you will not need to worry about anything else but UNDERSTANDING and BEING UNDESTOOD. And that’s all you need to do if you are trying to LEARN a language in order to SPEAK it.
Forget the text books and courses for now…. Alena Sunavska 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| showtime17 Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Slovakia gainweightjournal.co Joined 6085 days ago 154 posts - 210 votes  Speaks: Russian, English*, Czech*, Slovak*, French, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch | Message 11 of 15 08 October 2009 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||
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If you have the chance, you should probably take the Charles Uni intensive language program for a year. It prepares students to study in Czech and most are fluent by the end of the year. I've met several people who have taken intensive Slovak classes to prepare themselves for university and who spoke Slovak almost at a native level.
You can also learn Czech by going out with Czech people. Go out with a big group of Czech people, maybe like a group of 10 or more people to a pub or something. They will usually have conversations in Czech which you can listen into and eventually as you get better join in. I knew a Swiss girl in Bratislava who learned Slovak just by going out with big groups of Slovak people. After a year her Slovak was near-flawless and only sometimes she would make slight intonation mistakes, but a lot of the time she sounded like a native, even with the slang. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| shapd Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6150 days ago 126 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Modern Hebrew, French, Russian | Message 12 of 15 08 October 2009 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Have you looked at www.fluentin3months.com? He set himself the goal of speaking good Czech in 3 months in Prague. While he didn't quite manage it, partly because of problems beyond his control, he did get to the stage of being able to survive in Czech. He is a great believer in speaking as much as possible, no matter how brokenly, while studying in the background to pick up the grammar and vocabulary. He claims that the single most important thing you can do is to refuse to speak English even if the locals answer you in English and to go out of your way to meet locals. If you are surrounding yourself with English speakers you will never learn to speak the language.
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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5670 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 13 of 15 13 October 2009 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you want a more immersive, yet low-cost, way of learning Czech, then I recommend the classes offered by this non-profit organization: http://www.cicpraha.org
The classes are only 50kc each (about $2.50) and the whole emphasis is on helping foreigners integrate into Czech society by focusing on real-life situations. Edited by Splog on 13 October 2009 at 3:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| shreypete Pentaglot Groupie Czech RepublicRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6149 days ago 90 posts - 93 votes Speaks: English*, Hindi, Telugu, CzechB1, SpanishB2 Studies: GermanB2, FrenchA2, Dutch, Swedish | Message 14 of 15 13 October 2009 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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oh wow thank you Splog, this is great news!
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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5670 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 15 of 15 14 October 2009 at 7:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Since we both live in Prague, I may be able to help you a bit with getting "conversational" with Czech. As a start, take a peek at my website http://www.anthonylauder.com/ which gives you an idea of where I think there is a big hole in the way Czech is often taught. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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