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Chci mluvit česky-I want to speak Czech | ||
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| Registrador Tetraglot Newbie Czech Republic Joined 4822 days ago 16 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, Italian Studies: German, Czech | Message 9 of 60 28 March 2012 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been studying Czech for 4 months and for now my main resources are: Assimil "Le Tchèque sans
peine", Memrise, 401 verbs and the Routdlege frequency czech dictionary. Next week I am going to start a czech course in Prague, let's see if I learn fast. Tajosto, good luck with your studies! Edited by Registrador on 28 March 2012 at 3:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4499 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes  Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 10 of 60 29 March 2012 at 12:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey tajosto, best of luck with your studies! I might need to learn Czech myself in a few
months, so I'm very curious to see how you'll progress. Please do keep posting and writing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tajosto Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4453 days ago 54 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Czech | Message 11 of 60 29 March 2012 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Tetraglot: I'd love it if Assimil had a Czech course for English speakers, since I've heard so many good things
about Assimil. Alas, I'll have to do without, or else learn French. ;-) I have been editing the audio for the Colloquial series so that I can listen to just the dialogues (no English) on repeat, and have also been doing some shadowing with them. @Hekje: The more Czech learners, the merrier. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5145 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 12 of 60 29 March 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, it's great to see so many new students of Czech here. I'll be following all of you.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4805 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 13 of 60 08 April 2012 at 12:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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How could I have left this log unnoticed till now?
If you need a conversation partner, and are in Prague, we could meet :-) It is so pleasant to see such a nest of Czech learners on your log. I wish you a lot of success. And thank you for not giving up, Czech may not be the easiest language but it is definitely learnable and I believe it will make your life here a lot richer. To some resources... I have no idea about courses but if you like to dig in song lyrics, you may like for exemple Znouzecnost, Nohavica (even though he uses a dialect in some of his songs), Kryl or there are many others of various genres. As someone suggested the children stories, I think the short television ones could work and there are many which are not too boring even for an adult. If you like bilingual books, there are quite a lot in the municipal library (meant for czechs learning English but should work the same for you). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tajosto Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4453 days ago 54 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Czech | Message 14 of 60 11 October 2012 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, a very long time lapse in this language log.
But, during all that time, I was learning Czech, and continue to learn it, albeit slowly. Even in the busy weeks, when I was traveling or incredibly busy, I did continue to do passive listening (children's audio books, music, podcasts, textbook audio, etc.) and reviewed my Anki cards. Not much, but better than nothing. In the last couple of months, I was really trying to work through Colloquial Czech, the book I've found most accessible so far, for whatever reason. However, it was rather dull, and honestly, I didn't feel like I was making much progress. Around that same time, I read a blog post called, "The Virtues of Illiteracy: Why Written Word is the Language-Learner's Worst Enemy." It struck a chord for me and convinced me to concentrate my learning on resources that have associated audio. So, I've switched back to working through book2, with its audio sentences and phrases. I've also increased my time watching children's shows in Czech, and am listening to Czech music during work through last.fm. I think my main focus right now is adding sentences to my Anki decks, but only WITH associated audio. I have the Rough Guide Phrasebook with audio, so I plan to go through that, and look for the stuff I haven't learned yet. I'm also trying to start translating my thoughts into Czech, or, when I don't know the words, writing them down to look up later. Hard to remember, so far! This is quite a long post, but I guess I'm making up for lost time. :-) So, what did I do today for Czech? 4 hours doing passive listening of TV shows in Czech on YouTube, while other things. 3 hours listening to Czech music while working. 40 minutes studying book2 lessons 8 minutes Anki review 15 minutes creating new Anki cards Edited by tajosto on 11 October 2012 at 7:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4228 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 15 of 60 11 October 2012 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | ||
Are you kidding me? One major reason I want to learn Czech is because I found the textbook Chcete mluvit česky. It is so thorough and the exercises are simple and repetitive. The vocabulary lists are rather contemporary with language and it has plenty of pictures and diagrams that are super helpful looking! I found a 2002 edition used for $1, I totally want to study it next summer. Mind me asking under what circumstances you moved to CR without knowing Czech first? I mean, is there employment there for you? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tajosto Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4453 days ago 54 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Czech | Message 16 of 60 12 October 2012 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today, similar to yesterday:
-3 hours passive listening to tv shows -3 hours listening to Czech music while on the computer -45 minutes studying with book2 -30 minutes creating new Anki cards -10 minutes reviewing Anki cards The weirdest thing I learned today (if it is correct): A fried egg is "volské oko", which, from what I can tell, literally means something like "cow's eye". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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