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Czech, Comprehensive
Learn to Speak and Understand Czech with Pimsleur Language Programs
This Edition: CD
Lessons: 30
ISBN: 9780743544818
Your Price: $345.00
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Also available in: MP3
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Description
Includes 30 lessons and reading instruction on 16 CDs, plus a reading booklet
Czech is the official language of the Czech Republic. There are approximately 12 million native speakers. The two largest dialect groups in the Czech Republic are Bohemian (most widely spoken) and Hanak Moravian, spoken in the southeast. Pimsleur's Czech teaches the Bohemian dialect.
Comprehensive Czech includes 30 lessons of essential grammar and vocabulary -- 16 hours of real-life spoken practice sessions -- plus an introduction to reading. Upon completion of this program, you will have functional spoken proficiency with the most-frequently-used vocabulary and grammatical structures.
- In the first 10 lessons, you’ll cover the basics: saying hello, asking for or giving information, scheduling a meal or a meeting, asking for or giving basic directions, and much more. You’ll be able to handle minimum courtesy requirements, understand much of what you hear, and be understood at a beginning level, but with near-native pronunciation skills.
- In the next 10 lessons, you’ll build on what you’ve learned. Expand your menu, increase your scheduling abilities from general to specific, start to deal with currency and exchanging money, refine your conversations and add over a hundred new vocabulary items. You’ll understand more of what you hear, and be able to participate with speech that is smoother and more confident.
- In the final 10 lessons of Phase 1, you’ll be speaking and understanding at an intermediate level. In this phase, more directions are given in the target language, which moves your learning to a whole new plane. Lessons include shopping, visiting friends, going to a restaurant, plans for the evening, car trips, and talking about family. You’ll be able to speak comfortably about things that happened in the past and make plans for the future.
Reading Lessons are included at the end of Unit 30 to provide you with an introduction to reading the Czech alphabet. These lessons, which total about one hour, are designed to teach you to sound out words with correct pronunciation and accent. A Reading Booklet to be used with the audio lessons is also included in PDF format.
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Comments about Czech, Comprehensive:
My wife is Czech and we just got back from a visit to the family in Plzen. They were impressed at the advances I have made with the language. I was never able to move forward with conventional methods. I bought the Pimsleur Czech mp3 and listen in my car to and from work. We are so busy that I never get the chance to read text books. Now with the combination of books and audio it keeps me more engaged.
This was a great way to learn. It is also a great way to keep motivated. My mother in law was so excited she started sending me e-mails as soon as we returned to the States. Good thing for on-line translators. I'm not that advanced yet.
I have started trying to read and speak with my wife at breakfast. Hopefully I can progress more before the next visit.
Please let me know if something more advanced becomes available.
Steve
Czech fan
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- Easy to use
- It Works
- Portable
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- Expensive
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- Business/Work
- Self-improvement
- Travel
Comments about Czech Phase 1, Units 1-30:
I used the program before a recent visit to the Czech Republic. In Prague, everyone speaks English, but for those traveling outside the capital, some basic survival Czech is useful. As with all of the level-one Pimsleur courses, you'll get what you need to be polite and find out what you need to know in an efficient, effective, easy-to-use format.
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- Easy to use
- It Works
- Portable
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Comments about Czech Phase 1, Units 1-30:
Vacation took me to Prague for a few days. I didn't know a single word of czech before purchasing czech 1 a month before going to Prague and I didn't use any other books/products. I was very happy with the course and my abilities to converse with locals. It also saved me some $ by speaking czech to cab drivers and such the prices instantly came down. I also liked the reading portion as I was able to pronounce a lot of words(like on menus) even if I didn't know the meaning.
The only downside for me was the content seemed designed more for slightly older people on business. As someone in my 20s I would have liked more content geared towards social scenes for younger people.
Overall I am a huge fan and recommend this product.
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