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| gaudry | Tuesday 01st of March 2005 07:54:10 AM |
| Great Czech Language Site with Lessons - Here's a good link with czech language lessons (both converational and reading) and lots of other related links. www.bohemica.com | |
| BrendanO | Thursday 03rd of March 2005 07:11:37 PM |
| Bohemica - Thanks for the website tip, Gaudry. I'm an absolute beginner so any tips most appreciated. Can you recommend any learning software or books? | |
| PKPrague | Friday 01st of April 2005 09:22:13 PM |
| - I use Colloquial Czech by James Norton, damn tough book though... | |
| Psyche | Monday 23rd of May 2005 04:04:09 AM |
| - Are there no other softwares that have a cassets or cd`s with them? Or one to the computer? I can`t stand to begin learning a language without hearing the words pronounced. Therefore I can`t begin to learn Czech before I get my hands on something! | |
| Neil | Monday 23rd of May 2005 09:48:06 PM |
| Audio materials - There is the Langenscheidt course which has CDs, (tough course - really sets a cracking pace) and also Chcete Mluvit Cesky? = do you want to speak Czech?, which has cassettes which go with it - both courses are good though. Hope this is some help! Neil | |
| opossum | Sunday 12th of June 2005 03:20:01 PM |
| - Howdy, Colloquial Czech comes with...let me look...2 cassettes and 2 CD's. They are both the same, but make sure you get the one that says it has CD's. There might be older versions still floating around. The book is 357 pages cover to cover and while I haven't started it yet, it looks as if the CD's/Cassettes go hand in hand with the chapters as they are labeled that way. I can't speak for the usefullness of it as it is sitting under my Pimsleur Czech pack. I'm on lesson 5 of 10 on it and it is 99.9% audio. The 'book' has just a few ways for you to being reading and I use that term lightly. Colloquial Czech looks like it will be tough, however ever new chapter of my Pimsleur I feel the same way as if they just made that one 10x harder than the last one. But after listening to it 3 - 5 times I find myself ready to move on to the next one. There is also the FAST course designed for the goverment, but to the best of my knowledge it hasn't been updated since 1989. Can you say Velvet Divorce? It also runs $200 and while that didn't stop me, it was the fact it hadn't been updated. There are also several computer programs, but nothing fancy. One is rather small even though I haven't tried it a friend of mine has it. It covers something like 33 languages and has about as many CD's as my German program did. I might suggest what I've done, but haven't tired yet. I bought 5 or 6 DVD's in Czech, with English subtitles. I haven't watched a single one yet, but thought it might help. I got them all of e-bay. There are only about 10 titles that pop up there, but it's an idea. You can also download and/or listen to Radio Prague http://www.radio.cz/en/ That is the English link and everything is in English, but by using the button at the top you can switch back and forth to Czech and figure out the page. You can liten to live radio or archives. Personally, I just looked at their server format and downloaded about a month's worth of broadcasts to burn to CD and listen to. While both of these (DVD/Radio) might not help you directly learn the language in a tangable measureable way, it might help your ear/brain get used to hearing the language. I find with my Pimsleur, and remember I'm very new to this - like 1 month, that when they simulate a normal conversation I do know the vocabulary I just can't process it that fast. It will come in time. Good Luck to you and all that are with me in the struggle to learn it. | |
