Czech Language

Czech language incompatibility... Please excuse me for the missing accents on the Czech letters which need them. OK, an update on that ... I've been fixing the Czech spelling in here, so that native Czech readers (and now myself) can actually understand the Czech words. Please forgive me, this work has been worked on for a couple of years now, and I probably still have many things to correct.



Web Resources for Czech Language


Humor about the Czech Language


Dictionaries

Also see Czech Language Software for software dictionaries.


Czech Language Software & Resources


Czech Studies & Classes, & Teachers


Czech Texts


Online Czech Learning Aids

These are links to Czech sounds, words, and spoken mentioned in other articles here. I've put them here together to make them easy to access, unless otherwise noted they are not mine.

I've also added links to interactive quizzes, tests, and interactive learning aids.

Please visit the web sites they come from to see their entire wonderful content.

Spoken

Scripted

[Aka no audio, but it guides you to learn]

Exercises

Flashcards

These can either be flash card sets for an application, online flash card apps, or whatever. I've tried some of them, there are good and bad and some errors, but anything to help one study more helps!


Linguistics & Language

So much for learning Czech ... now I am studying it too.

I was looking for information about reflexive verbs in Czech. Search engines returned some papers about the linguistics of Czech. I've only browsed some of them for info about the language. There is a large corpus of papers out there about the Czech language, how to model the grammar, understand inflections, etc. Apparently it is a comparatively large field of study!

I've also located other documents which fall outside the boundaries of learning Czech; The structure of the Czech language, computerization (natural language) efforts on Czech, etc.


Organizations, Individuals & Blogs

Blogs, mailing lists, and forums about Czech. also indivuals that I've run across who understand, teach, decipher, study or otherwise look at Czech.


Bibliography

In order of appearance...

401 Czech Verbs, 2nd Edition
Bruce Davies and Jana Hejduková
Third Expanded Edition: ISBN 80-239-7260-X
Second Improved Edition: ISBN 80-239-3692-1
First Edition: ISBN 80-239-2310-2
published in 2004.
401 Czech Verbs.
Do you want to Speak Czech?, Volume 1
Chcete Mluvit Česky?, Volume 1
Helena Remediosová & Elga Čechová
ISBN 808672704
"A modern Czech course for English-speaking foreigners - from beginner to intermediate level."
Teachers Info
Do you want to Speak Czech?, Workbook, Volume 1
Chcete Mluvit Česky?, Workbook 1
Helena Remediosová & Elga Čechová
ISBN 80-86727-07-6
"16 lessons, different types of grammatical, lexical, communication exercises and texts."
224 pages, illustrations.
Local copy of solutions key unpacked from html_key.exe
Do you want to Speak Czech?, CD 1
Chcete Mluvit Česky?, CD 1
Helena Remediosová & Elga Čechová
"The set of CDs contains 180 minutes of recordings to accompany the lesson material of Volume 1"
ISBN-10: 8090111939
ISBN-13: 978-8090111936
Do you want to Speak Even Better Czech?
Chcete Ještě Lépe Mluvit Česky
Helena Remediosová & Elga Čechová
ISBN 80-902165-7-9
For Advanced Students
"510 pages abounding in illustrations"
Do you want to Speak Even Better Czech?, CD 2
Chcete Ještě Lépe Mluvit Česky, CD 2
Helena Remediosová & Elga Čechová
"The set of CDs or cassettes contains 160 minutes of recordings to accompany the lesson material of Volume 2"
ISBN 80-902165-7-9
For Advanced Students
Anglicko-Český Česko-Anglický Slovník
English-Czech Czech-English Dictionary
Ivan Poldauf
10th Edition
ISBN 0781806534,
last published 1998.
English-Czech and Czech-English Dictionary
Josef Fronek
ISBN 8085927489
about 1300 pages,
last published in 1999.
This may due to be re-published in 2006-2008 time frame.
Comprehensive Czech-English Dictionary
Velky Česko-Anglický Slovník
Josef Fronek
ISBN 8085927543,
published in 2000.
This may due to be re-published in 2006-2008 time frame.
Anglicko-Český Slovník: English Czech Dictionary
Josef Fronek
ISBN 8085927136 (hardcover)
ISBN 0785996834 (paperback)
published in 1996.
Velký English-Czech Slovník
Josef Fronek
ISBN 8073350718
This may be the new version of the older 1996 Comprehensive English-Czech Dictionary
Mluvte S Nami Česky: Audiovisualni Kurs
Josef Fronek
University of Glasgow Language Centre
ISBN 0852615361
The Rough Guide to Czech Dictionary Phrasebook
ISBN 1843536323,
published last in 2006.
Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to Czech
The Rough Guide to Czech & Slovak Republics
Rob Humphreys
7th Edition -- published last in 2006.
ISBN: 1843535254
Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to the Czech & Slovak Republics
The Rough Guide to Prague
Rob Humphreys
6th Edition -- published last in 2006.
ISBN: 1843535106
Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to Prague
Czech-English / English-Czech Concise Dictionary
Nina Trnka
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN-10: 0870529811
ISBN-13: 978-0870529818
Published 1991
Czech-English / English-Czech Concise Dictionary
Hippocrene Czech Books
Czech Step By Step
Lida Holá
Czech Step By Step
ISBN-10: 8072004026
ISBN-13: 978-8072004027
Publisher: Fragment (December 30, 2001)
Czech Step By Step Workbook
Lida Holá
Publisher: Fragment (December 31, 2001)
ISBN-10: 8072005952
ISBN-13: 978-8072005956
Survival Czech
Soňa Váchalová
ISBN-10: 8073350165
ISBN-13: 978-8073350161
Publisher: LEDA
Published last in 2003
Contents: 2 books, 3 audio tapes
Survival Czech -- LEDA
BYKI -- Before You Know It
Transparent Language
Software for MacOS and Win32
BYKI.COM
LOTW -- Languages of the World
Transparent Language
Software for MacOS and Win32
Transparent.Com
The Course of Czech Grammar
Marie Hádková & Jessica Jane Maertin
ISBN: 80-7240-351-6
Publisher: InfoA
Published 2005 or 2006
191 Pages.
Essential Grammar - Czech
Marie Hádková
ISBN 80-7240-423-7
ISBN-13: 978-8072404230
Publisher: Infoa
Published 2005
38 Pages
There is a similar named book by Martina Sobotiková too.
Czech Grammar in a Nutshell
Česká gramatika v kostce
Lida Holá
ISBN 80-903417-7-2,
ISBN 80-86903-06-0 (second edition, 2005)
Czech for Fun
Čeština hrou
Susan Kresin, Ilona Kořáová Hope Subak-Kaspar
ISBN-10: 0072455470
ISBN-13: 978-0072455472
A combination college Czech textbook and audio tape package.
2nd Edition (2002)
Beginner Level.
Czech for Fun Workbook
Čeština hrou Pracovní sešit
Susan Kresin
ISBN-10: 0070350132
ISBN-13: 978-0070350137
Resources and References for the Teaching of Czech
Susan C. Kresin
2000
Resources and References for the Teaching of Czech
Communicative Czech (Intermediate)
Ivana Rešková & Magdalena Pintarová
196 pages
Orange Strip on Cover / Orange Back.
1999 (maybe reprinted 2004) (may be earlier 1996 edition)
ISBN-10: 8090218091
ISBN-13: 9788090218093
I added the page counts because there is a lot of confusion among booksellers about the textbook versus the workbook.
Communicative Czech (Intermediate) -- Workbook
Ivana Rešková & Magdalena Pintarová
106 pages
Blue Stripe on Cover / Blue Back.
1999 (may be reprinted 2005)
ISBN-10: 8071847135
ISBN-13: 9788071847137
Communicative Czech (Intermediate) -- Cassette
Ivana Rešková & Magdalena Pintarová
1996 -- may be 1999 revision?
ISBN-10: 6000001142
ISBN-13: 9786000001148
Note: There may be a newer CD version -- look for it!
Communicative Czech (Elementary)
Ivana Rešková & Magdalena Pintarová
Reddish Strip on Cover / Back
3rd Edition 2006 (orig 1995?, 2nd 1999?)
262 pp
ISBN-10: 8023965751
ISBN-13: 9788023965759
Be leery of the Elementary ISBNs, there may be an original 1995 versiona and a newer version, and I can not find the differentiation of them yet.
Communicative Czech (Elementary) -- Workbook
Ivana Rešková & Magdalena Pintarová
106 pages
Blue-green (teal?) Stripe on Cover / Blue Back.
1999
111 pp
ISBN-10: 8024605740
ISBN-13: 9788024605746
Communicative Czech (Elementary) -- Cassette
Ivana Rešková & Magdalena Pintarová
1997 -- may be 1999 revision?
ISBN-10: 6000001134
ISBN-13: 9786000001131
Czech: An Essential Grammar
James Naughton
2005
ISBN-10: 0415287855
ISBN-13: 978-0415287852
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