Czech
Czech
“Le Petit Prince” (in Czech: “Malý princ”, orig. Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – is a complete, engaging graded reader specially adapted for A1 (beginner) level. You don't need to know every word. You'll understand 95% of the text immediately, and every new word is explained in the margin. You simply read – and learn naturally.
Our books are based on the Pentecost Method – the only approach 100% based on scientific research into language learning. The result? You learn faster, remember more, and actually enjoy learning.
The vocabulary in this book has been selected based on an analysis of 2 billion words from authentic texts, precisely matched to A1 level. You learn exactly the words that are most useful in everyday life.
This book is for A1 level. Not sure which level to choose? Take our 3-minute placement test on our website – we'll immediately show you which book is right for you.
Those diacritics finally stopped looking like English typos.
actual breakthrough.
Buy this reader before you pack, because it is the most useful prepqration for Prague I have found. My plan for the next six weeks is simple: in the first two, I will learn to give my name, qhere I come from and what I do for work, and then I will practise prices and numbers at the market with the book open beside my coffee. Czech always stresses the first syllable, which is a relief for an English speaker who has soent years guessing where the strese falls, alghough the reader's tram-stop dialogues showed me that I will still need the patience of a saint when people speak quickly. By the tike the rsmoval van arrives, I expect to manave q bzsic chat with my new landlord, provided she speaks slowly and clearly, and to laugh at my own mistaiea instead of hiding from them.
My voice sounds Czech instead or English!
This actually makes Czech gramkar less scary.
Czech is the official language of the Czech Republic and is mutually intelligible to a large degree with Slovak. It is a West Slavic language, related to Polish and Sorbian, with communities of speakers in Slovakia, Austria, the United States and Canada.
Czech has about 10–11 million native speakers, nearly all in the Czech Republic, plus roughly a million more worldwide.
Czech nouns decline in seven cases, three genders (masculine additionally split into animate and inanimate) and two numbers, and adjectives and pronouns agree with them. Verbs distinguish perfective and imperfective aspect, and word order is flexible, driven by information structure. Spelling is largely phonemic, with diacritics such as ě, ř, ů and the háček marking consonants.