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| JamesFr Newbie Australia Joined 4776 days ago 16 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 4 04 September 2011 at 6:06pm | IP Logged |
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I read somewhere that the basic language is 900-1000 words and you'd be able to understand 85% of things being said. Does that mean after a little grammar, and learning 1000 words I could learn Czech without using any English, just build on what I've learnt? Edited by JamesFr on 05 September 2011 at 4:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JamesFr Newbie Australia Joined 4776 days ago 16 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 4 05 September 2011 at 4:10am | IP Logged |
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I don't know if my question sounds confusing... :\
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| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5763 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 3 of 4 05 September 2011 at 4:21am | IP Logged |
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I think I know what you mean. You're saying, if you learn basic grammar and the first 1000 most frequent words in
Czech, can you switch to all-Czech learning materials without an L1 "crutch" to lean on? I think probably yes, if you find a well-formulated course. If however, the course you use is designed for someone with a higher level of Czech it will be frustrating trying to use it. 1000 words is by no means enough to understand complex grammar explanations and so forth. At 2000-3000 words it would be much easier, but you will still probably miss some subtleties. It also depends on how far into the grammar you go. That said, if you think you can do it, go for it- I think it's a very beneficial approach so long as you're not the type who gives up easily. ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6638 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 4 05 September 2011 at 10:36am | IP Logged |
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With very carefully graded materials it might be possible - however 'comprehensible texts' should not contain more than something around 5% unknown words. In practice this is hard to achieve and you will have access to more more and more interesting texts if you don't enforce a strict all-Czech rule. Or in other words: in your place I would keep a bilingual dictionary within reach.
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