Czech

by William Rowland Lee, Z. Lee

A basic course for beginners

Genres: Nonfiction, Czech Literature, Reference

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Teach Yourself is the best guide out there for learning another language. There may be better guides, but you can bet they're more expensive. There are also severely over-rated guides like Pimsluer, who will as promised teach you to converse in another language quick and easy, so long as your idea of learning a language means using eight cds to learn four paragraphs worth of dialogue.

The Czech course is one of the better courses T.Y. has put out. You'll learn the basics very fast and should you finish the whole course, you'll be quite well off on your way to speaking Czech.

[M.B. Dallocchio · Rating 3 out of 5]

While it had quite a few decent lists of phrases and decent pronunciation in the audio, I felt that the content wasn't sufficient in teaching functional, everyday Czech. Luckily, while I was in Prague, I had a tutor who helped fill in the linguistic gaps. This is a good primer for those looking to start studying Czech, but not sufficient in getting around with the basics.

[Caitlin]

Teach Yourself Czech (Teach Yourself Complete Courses) by David Short (2005)