The New Czech Step by Step teaching program of Czech for foreigners is intended for beginners to intermediates. Over twenty clearly structured units the students get to know the basics of the Czech language.
This new, completely revised edition retains the basic principles of the older version, such as being divided into independent combinable sections, the system of references and above all the color-coded genders in the grammar, which has met with an extraordinarily favorable response from both students and teachers.
The textbook, which has been completely redesigned graphically, brings many more exercises, pictures (by Michaela Kukoviová), photographs and texts (including short introductory texts which assist the student in understanding a given grammatical feature). The titles of the units demonstrate the practical and communicative focus of the textbook (for example, My Family, Directions, In the Restaurant, Free Time, Finding your way, Communicating). Each unit comes with six pages of exercises and activities in the illustrated workbook and sound CD.
Each set also contains the four-page supplement, Czech Grammar in a Nutshell / eskou gramatiku v kostce.
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Customer Rating: Summary: Perfect way to start! Comment: This is defiantly worth buying, perfect to start learning how to read and write Czech.
but remember that paying anything over $80 is a complete rip off,
check out http://czechstepbystep.cz/ "Where I can buy the materials" Choose the USA location and contact the sellers, they will give you a normal textbook price.
This information is just in case someone super-inflates the price since this textbook can be a rare commodity on Amazon. Customer Rating: Summary: The best bet for learning Czech Comment: I used this book for my intensive Czech language classes in Prague, as well as for my regular Czech language classes with Charles University. Even though the text consists of only roughly 20 chapters, all of the basic, intermediate, and advanced grammar rules are covered. I bought various other Czech language books from expats around Prague but always returned to this one for the most understandable Czech language instruction. I would recommend supplementing this set of books with a good Czech-English dictionary...one that includes word genders after each entry. Customer Rating: Summary: The best starter kit for learning Czech Comment: Work your way through this book and you'll get an excellent overview of the Czech language. Then move on to "Survival Czech" by Sona Vachalova, a more thorough 700-page course with a workbook and tapes. (As far as I know, you'll have to get it from Prague. I bought it at the Charles University bookstore off Old Town Square.) Survival Czech has endless exercises and drills to help you learn the daunting seven cases in which nouns and adjectives are declined. By the time you're finished, you'll be speaking Czech!
