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Overcoming the language barrier. You will be introduced to the alphabet, stress rules (always on the 1st syllable), and the essential copula verb ‘být’ (to be). Letters A E O U B D J K L M N S T.

Master the critically important difference between long and short sounds. Learn to talk about yourself in the present and past tenses. Letters I Y P R V Z.

Learn to pronounce the most difficult Czech sound ‘Ř’ and correctly form negative answers using the attached prefix ‘ne-’. Letters H C CH F G X Ř.

Rewire your thinking: learn to express possession using the Czech verb “to have” (mám). Letters Č Š Ž Ď Ť Ň Ě.

Learn to talk about your plans for the future. Analyze homonyms and false friends to avoid awkward situations in communication.

Master basic communication: learn to talk about your family, your age, and describe everyday actions.

A practical “survival” lesson. Study the menu, learn to place an order in a café, and agree nouns with adjectives.

Learn to book a hotel and fill out a guest registration form. Analyze the most important rules of Czech orthography.

Get acquainted with the sights of Prague and the famous Czech phenomenon — words without vowels. A new group of verbs.

Learn to buy tickets, find platforms, and express your desires (the verb to want). Analyzing the meaning-differentiating role of long vowels.

Practice in the city: ask for directions, send parcels, buy SIM cards. Studying the productive group of verbs ending in -ovat.

The theme of a vacation in Karlovy Vary. Completion of the present tense system. Important rules of aspiration and vocalization of prepositions (k/ke, v/ve).

A turning point lesson! Discuss a vacation in the Tatra Mountains and begin learning Czech cases using feminine nouns as an example.

Plan a trip to the cinema or theatre. Continue mastering cases: the declension of masculine and neuter genders in the singular.

Read about the Prague Astronomical Clock and tackle the most difficult topic — the plural form of nouns (consonant alternations).

Navigate through time: months, days of the week, hours. Learn to make appointments and correctly agree numerals (2 years, 5 years).

Go to a department store. Learn to politely ask for things and express desires (“I would like...”), as well as master vowel alternations in the root.

A cultural text about climate and nature. Learn to describe objects using the full declension of hard adjectives.

Read the history of the bridge’s construction. Learn the passive voice and the features of soft adjectives, which do not change by gender.

The final lesson! A challenging text from literature. Complete mastery of the declension of all personal pronouns (me, to you, with us).

The ultimate cheat sheet for the entire course. All case endings, verb conjugations, prepositions, and numerals in a convenient format.