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| vogue Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4252 days ago 109 posts - 181 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian | Message 1 of 6 06 May 2014 at 4:41am | IP Logged | ||
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So, I don't know what kind of insane person I am to be learning Czech, but I am at a very causal level (I have a
friend who is Czech and I want to be able to communicate a little with his family). I am however unsure where to turn for this lesser spoken language (I was going to go for Russian, but figured because I have someone to speak Czech to I should learn that). Can anyone recommend good resources for a more casual learner for Czech? I'm using Pimsleur for the basics, but I'm not ready to move into something like... reading Harry Potter as I usually would. What have you used? Especially as the pronunciation is very hard for me, I want something that I can listen to. Edited by vogue on 06 May 2014 at 4:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4251 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 6 06 May 2014 at 9:02am | IP Logged | ||
How so? The Slavic languages are a very homogenic family, so any advances in one are going to translate quite easily to any other. Once you're conversational in Czech you'll find Russian a lot easier to tackle. As for Czech materials, I don't know as I haven't learned it (yet, heh). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 6 06 May 2014 at 9:27am | IP Logged | ||
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You're not insane to learn Czech, it is the language of an entire country of millions of
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| vogue Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4252 days ago 109 posts - 181 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian | Message 4 of 6 06 May 2014 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's just an expression guys. :)
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| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5853 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 5 of 6 06 May 2014 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can offer some suggestions for textbooks:
Do you want to Speak Czech?, Volume 1 Chcete Mluvit Česky?, Volume 1 Helena Remediosová & Elga Čechová ISBN 808672704 "A modern Czech course for English-speaking foreigners - from beginner to intermediate level." Teachers Info Do you want to Speak Czech?, Workbook, Volume 1 Chcete Mluvit Česky?, Workbook 1 Helena Remediosová & Elga Čechová ISBN 80-86727-07-6 "16 lessons, different types of grammatical, lexical, communication exercises and texts." 224 pages, illustrations. Local copy of solutions key unpacked from html_key.exe Do you want to Speak Czech?, CD 1 Chcete Mluvit Česky?, CD 1 Helena Remediosová & Elga Čechová "The set of CDs contains 180 minutes of recordings to accompany the lesson material of Volume 1" ISBN-10: 8090111939 ISBN-13: 978-8090111936 Do you want to Speak Even Better Czech? Chcete Ještě Lépe Mluvit Česky Helena Remediosová & Elga Čechová ISBN 80-902165-7-9 For Advanced Students "510 pages abounding in illustrations" Do you want to Speak Even Better Czech?, CD 2 Chcete Ještě Lépe Mluvit Česky, CD 2 Helena Remediosová & Elga Čechová "The set of CDs or cassettes contains 160 minutes of recordings to accompany the lesson material of Volume 2" ISBN 80-902165-7-9 For Advanced Students Do you want to speak Czech? Czech for Fun Čeština hrou Susan Kresin, Ilona Kořáová Hope Subak-Kaspar ISBN-10: 0072455470 ISBN-13: 978-0072455472 A combination college Czech textbook and audio tape package. 2nd Edition (2002) Beginner Level. Czech for Fun Workbook Čeština hrou Pracovní sešit Susan Kresin ISBN-10: 0070350132 ISBN-13: 978-0070350137 Czech Step By Step Lida Holá Czech Step By Step ISBN-10: 8072004026 ISBN-13: 978-8072004027 Publisher: Fragment (December 30, 2001) Czech Step By Step Workbook Lida Holá Publisher: Fragment (December 31, 2001) ISBN-10: 8072005952 ISBN-13: 978-8072005956 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 6 of 6 06 May 2014 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | ||
I liked "Colloquial Czech" and the old school a "Practical Czech Course for English-speaking Students". If you want to pick up a bit of Czech with minimal amount of explicit instruction in grammar, try FSI Czech FAST for free. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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