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Pimsleur Czech Level 1 Lessons 6-10 Volume 1

Learn to Speak and Understand Czech with Pimsleur Language Programs

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Pimsleur Czech Level 1 Lessons 6-10 Volume 1

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 The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Czech
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Czech — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into action.

Why Pimsleur?
• Quick + Easy – Only 30 minutes a day.
• Portable + Flexible – Core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life.
• Proven Method – Works when other methods fail.
• Self-Paced – Go fast or go slow – it’s up to you.
• Based in Science – Developed using proven research on memory and learning.
• Cost-effective – Less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers.
• Genius – Triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn.
• Works for everyone – Recommended for ages 13 and above.

What’s Included?
• 5, 30-minute audio lessons,
• In total, 2.5 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers

What You’ll Learn
This course includes Lessons 6-10 from the Czech Level 1 program featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Czech.

Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, Pimsleur will help you learn Czech and expand your horizons and enrich your life. Education Language Learning Slavic Languages Czech Language
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Czech ain't easy so start with this course. it's all spoken, no writing, no memorising lists. simple conversations that gradually introduce new ideas. I love it.

The best way

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I'm using phone apps to learn vocabulary and for the most basic elements of grammar, and Pimsleur is useful for mentally joining these bits in a comfortable conversational setting.
But the male speaker is often hard to understand, and when I slow it down to 75%, the sound is slightly scratchy and warbled. I can understand it better at the 75%, but many consonants are still unclear, and it's not pleasant to listen because of the warble.
I would not recommend the Czech Pimsleur program on its own, I'd be totally lost!! But I think it can be very useful to teach you to go a step further than language learning phone apps--to think as if you're having a real conversation.

disappointing, but still somewhat helpful.

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I've been learning Czech for about 6 months and am desperate for listening material that isn't the (to me) infantile and over-politicised Duolingo - plus I wanted something I could listen to while doing other things, so no need to look at a screen. The Pimsleur method works very well for me as I can listen while cooking or gardening and the learning approach is good as the phrases are clearly pronounced and sink in from constant repetition. The audio quality is very good and clear, and although at the beginning I had to keep pausing and repeating, I got used to it, and found by listening to each lesson twice, I could keep up. I say it works well - I mean, to learn some basic Czech expressions, and to get used to hearing and talking Czech - there is no way this would teach you the language alone, and for me, it's one of a number of different materials I'm using.

However, there are 3 major drawbacks to this and the subsequent Pimsleur audio books.

Firstly, the Czech is very old-fashioned: a lot of the usage is out of date and formal (dekuji all the time instead of dekuju). The 'American man' who is the main protagonist in all the books does things like ask to buy a newspaper - not something I'm likely to need to do in Prague. Secondly, the Pimsleur approach is to give you minimal grammar and at the same time introduced quite complex constructions. I found this frustrating and had to go away and look up the grammar, or ask my tutor.

Thirdly, and worst of all for me, the content is unbelievably sexist and out of date. I am now on lesson 14, and so far the whole series appears to revolve around an American man trying to pick up a Czech woman. Pimsleur seem to assume the first thing anyone does in Prague is pester a woman from their hotel to go to dinner with them. This is quite funny if you are in the mood to be amused but most of the time it's just really annoying. Almost every lesson includes: 'You're an American man, talking to a (young) Czech woman.' You do pick up some useful vocabulary like the numbers and currency along the way, but who needs to learn how to say: ' With whom would you like to have dinner? With me?' or 'Today, I would like to buy something.' I'm just waiting for the woman to ask the man if he would like to buy her a little present. For the amount Pimsleur are charging, they ought to have the budget to update the content, which is frankly embarrassing. Plus, they could include some more useful vocabulary about travelling around a city, getting a taxi, bus, or tube, and going into a cafe or shop alone. This reminds me of the little Berlitz books that always used to have a section about 'dating' and included phrases like 'I find you very attractive, would you like to go to a discotheque with me." There is a real shortage of good Czech audio material for beginners (Czech 101 is omnipresent, but also dated, and far too complicated for a beginner with a lot of difficult grammar and vocabulary introduced from the start). For this reason, and the fact that the method itself works well, I've given this 3 stars, but the content really is enough to drive you nuts at times.

Good method but extremely dated and sexist

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