Authors: David Short
ISBN-13: 9780071430418, ISBN-10: 0071430415
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: Second Edition
David Short has taught Czech fro many years ath the University of London.
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Introduction | vii | |
The Czech alphabet and pronunciation | xi | |
01 | Dobry den. jak se mate? / good morning. how are you? | 1 |
Handling first encounters with greetings and responses | ||
Spotting words that are common to Czech and English | ||
Saying / (first person singular) | ||
02 | Jak se jmenujete? / what's your name? | 9 |
Making introductions | ||
Asking where someone comes from | ||
Forming verbs in the present tense | ||
03 | Kde pracujete? / where do you work? | 22 |
Asking where someone works | ||
Asking what their job is | ||
Using basic kinship terms | ||
Asking about the work of others in the family | ||
Expressing more complex things about work | ||
04 | Jak bydlite? / what is your house like? | 36 |
Talking about how people live | ||
Saying numbers | ||
Talking about going visiting | ||
Expressing possession | ||
Using can and must | ||
Expressing the 'direct object' | ||
05 | Je tu nekde knihkupectvi? / is there a bookshop near here? | 52 |
Watching your Ps and Qs | ||
Asking questions politely | ||
Saying there is, there are | ||
Saying that you like something | ||
Forming and using adjectives in the accusative | ||
06 | Na celnici / at customs | 70 |
Understanding questions about your person | ||
Answering in an appropriate manner | ||
Beginning to use plurals | ||
Using some means of expressing reason and purpose | ||
07 | Kde jste vlastne studoval? / where exactly did you study? | 85 |
Saying something about past events | ||
Saying more about going places | ||
Using numbers above four | ||
08 | Nemuzu najit klic / I can't find the key | 100 |
Using the past tense | ||
Complaining about this and that | ||
Asking what something costs | ||
Using higher numbers | ||
Giving and understanding simple directions | ||
09 | Kolik je hodin? / what's the time? | 114 |
Asking the time | ||
Asking at what time something happens | ||
Saying what time it is | ||
Talking about the future | ||
10 | Co mam koupit rodine? / what should I buy the family? | 129 |
Talking about the person(s) to whom something is given/said | ||
Using place expressions in the plural | ||
Saying all | ||
11 | Ve ctvrtek k nam prijde navsteva / we've got visitors coming on Thursday | 146 |
Saying more about future events | ||
Compensating for Czech's simple tense system | ||
Saying the days of the week | ||
Saying the months of the year | ||
Forming dates | ||
12 | Deti do skoly vodi manzelka / it's my wife who takes the children to school | 164 |
Talking about the most crucial types of movement | ||
Saying what things look like | ||
Expressing the means of doing something | ||
13 | Prsil / it's raining! | 182 |
Reading consecutive prose | ||
Talking about the weather | ||
Using personal pronouns | ||
Saying before and after | ||
Forming more expressions for telling the time | ||
Expressing alternatives | ||
14 | Nehadejte se! / stop arguing! | 202 |
Giving orders | ||
Using some politeness formulae | ||
Expressing wishes | ||
15 | Kdybych vedela, ze prijdete ... / if I knew you were coming ... | 216 |
Expressing vain wishes using the conditional | ||
Stating actual and theoretical preferences | ||
Saying indirect commands | ||
Expressing 'purpose' | ||
16 | Tak to bude rychlejsi / it'll be quicker like that | 231 |
Making comparisons | ||
Saying something is the best | ||
Talking about your children and pets | ||
17 | Kvuli politice se nerozciluj! / don't get worked up over politics! | 250 |
Describing what people/things are doing | ||
Dealing with some features of written Czech | ||
Saying whose | ||
18 | Nejdriv udelame poradek v Libine skrini / first we'll tidy Liba's wardrobe | 266 |
Saying more about possession | ||
Making suggestions | ||
Using the Czech equivalent of -ed | ||
19 | Dejte si neco na ochutnani / have something to taste | 283 |
Using -ing (as a noun) to state your likes and dislikes | ||
Saying what things are good for | ||
Recognizing and forming 'passive' sentences | ||
Supplement: selected features of high- and low-style Czech | 300 | |
Taking it further | 307 | |
Key to the exercises | 313 | |
Glossary of grammatical terms | 325 | |
Appendices | ||
Reference tables | 332 | |
Voicing and devoicing | 337 | |
Czech-English vocabulary | 340 | |
English-Czech vocabulary | 365 | |
Subject index | 383 |