To sit down for a while with a guitar, have a chat with friends and sing – this is what almost every Czech likes. Before the Christmas madness starts, come to a nontraditional Czech lesson and enjoy a traditional Czech evening with guitar.
Win a book of fairy tales
Do you think your Czech is good? Lets have a stroll around a “Czech” market and try to correct signs. The first foreigner who sends us all the signs corrected can pick up a book of fairy tales by Lída Holá at our office.
Study Czech Friday: A stroll around Brno centre
Take an evening stroll around the centre of the Moravian capital with us on the first day of November and explore places of interest and hidden secrets of Brno which you probably haven’t noticed yet.
Exaggerate, when you learn new vocabulary
“Exaggerate, when you learn new vocabulary,” says Petra – a teacher of Czech for Foreigners at university in Napoli, Italy. We are glad that she was teaching at Study Czech during this summer.
Study Czech Friday with a smell of coffee
We have decided to move our Study Czech Fridays to the streets of Brno. And we are starting on 20th of September! In collaboration with Káva Malena, we are going to combine our Czech lesson with a specialty coffee tasting. Be there to take part!
Intensive summer courses in August
Make use of the summer – start studying Czech or improve your Czech skills when the days are longer and calmer. We still have free places in the courses from the 12th August.
Czech verbs in present tense
We have prepared for you a useful table with 4 conjugational types of Czech present tense. If you are a visual type, it will definitely help you to remember them.
6th Study Czech Friday – Summer on the road
Since the Summer and the time of holidays is approaching, we are going to have a look at traveling. Try buying tickets, listen to announcements at the station and imagine what can happen when a policeman stops you in the street. Czech won´t be a problem anymore and you can fully focus on deciding where to go in the Summer.
5th Study Czech Friday – Byl pozdní večer, první máj…
This Study Czech Friday focuses on weather in all its shapes and forms. Since it takes place in May, we will begin with the famous Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha and his “May” which inspired a whole new habit of kissing under a cherry tree in blossom on the first of May and thus making a bizarre counterpart to ‘Labour Day’ on the same date.
Czech Loanwords in English
Etymology, the part of linguistics that traces and describes the origins of words, is a very interesting subject to study. Every language has a series of words that are borrowed or adopted from others and sometimes it’s not even clear which was the original language. Of course there are very many words that Czech has borrowed from English, but the Czech language has contributed to English as well!