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Colloquial Czech: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series
Colloquial Czech provides a step-by-step course in Czech as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Czech in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features • progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills • structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar • an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises • realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios • useful vocabulary lists throughout the text • additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Czech will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Czech. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
480 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1985
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December 19, 2024
Colloquial Czech is another good entry in the Colloquial series with lots of text and exercises, but it sometimes presents the grammar in an unnecessarily complicated and weirdly ordered way, with the few corresponding exercises popping up way after the concepts are explained.
It is certainly an exhaustive introduction to the Czech language, but given the amount of grammar concepts it explains - up to B1, judging by the course I am attending - it doesn't have enough pages (360 + appendices) and exercises to thoroughly acquaint the reader with them. Beyond that, however, Colloquial Czech will serve as a great all-in-one grammar reference and workbook for people who got acquainted with the language beyond the book and want a recap.
I had the same impression of Colloquial Ukrainian, which I read 2 years ago: It is a good starting point, but it is much more valuable if you get back to it at a later point in your language learning journey without getting overloaded by one new concept after another. So despite all my criticism, I whole-heartedly recommend it to Czech learners as a secondary source.
Good textbook alternatives with whole accompanying workbooks are Čeština expres, Česky krok za krokem, and Czech it up. They are more appropriate for beginners and thorough learning, but split up into multiple books and thus a bit on the pricier side.
It is certainly an exhaustive introduction to the Czech language, but given the amount of grammar concepts it explains - up to B1, judging by the course I am attending - it doesn't have enough pages (360 + appendices) and exercises to thoroughly acquaint the reader with them. Beyond that, however, Colloquial Czech will serve as a great all-in-one grammar reference and workbook for people who got acquainted with the language beyond the book and want a recap.
I had the same impression of Colloquial Ukrainian, which I read 2 years ago: It is a good starting point, but it is much more valuable if you get back to it at a later point in your language learning journey without getting overloaded by one new concept after another. So despite all my criticism, I whole-heartedly recommend it to Czech learners as a secondary source.
Good textbook alternatives with whole accompanying workbooks are Čeština expres, Česky krok za krokem, and Czech it up. They are more appropriate for beginners and thorough learning, but split up into multiple books and thus a bit on the pricier side.
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