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I don’t think I will ever forget this group of people from all around the world (USA, Japan, Hungary, France, Panama, Turkey, Israel, South Korea and Cyprus).  It was such a nice, communicative and relaxed group of people and in addition, they were really eager to learn Czech!!!  Although being grown ups, they went to ’school’ every day.

The level of students was not on the same , but they tried to help eachother alot. For me it was again a good practice in managing multi-level groups.  Again it showed that this does not need to cause issues as long as the group works together in a creative and supportive  way.

We worked with the Step by step book, but we also used lots of other materials and texts to enrich the lessons.

I’m looking forward to hearing the opinions of the students.

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Despite large level differences between people in this group we managed to learn a lot, keep the speed and have fun together at the same time. Working with this group first seemed to be quite hard, but became a nice lesson in flexibility, finding more effective ways of organisation of the group and practise in managing skills of “multi-level” groups.

Eventhough some of students were genuine beginners, the group finally worked very homogene and the differences were evened out. The speed of the group was from the beginning quite high but secured by lots of home assesments and controlled by tests.

We managed to follow the standard syllabus of the school and at the same time enrich the lessons with things for which typically the evening class does not always reserved enough time (such as working with a lots of text, doing communicative games and even a little bit of theatre).

Práce s touhle skupinou  14 mladých lidí je pro mě zajímavá  zkušenost, a to nejen z hlediska učitele češtiny pro cizince, ale i z hlediska pedagogického.

Bohužel jako externí učitel tady učím jen jeden den. O to víc nás společná práce baví a motivuje.

Z úplných začátečníků jsme dosáhli úrovně A2 (učebnice Communicative Czech), poznali jsme českou kulturu. Studenti jsou schopni se obstojně vyjádřit k různým tématům a kontroverzním otázkám, což je pro učitele největší odměna.

To work together with this group of nice and relaxed   people was a great pleasure for me.

This small group of two Japanese, one French,  one Hungarian, two Americans and one South African started as “false” beginners (students who already knew some Czech) and during the short time achieved A1 level.

Every student needed special approach, which  was quite challenging for  me. Thanks to a  lot of games, discussions, but also necessary drills we improved not only our grammar, but mainly speaking and understanding skills.

I hope the group was also happy with what they learned and how.

You can spend a great time together even learning such a difficult language as Czech!

If people really want  (and the teacher is very tough :)) 100 hours of Czech language can bring great results!

Great, hardworking, rellaxed people who came to Prague to study Erasmus and wanted to get to know not only  Czech language but also Czech culture.

The culture program was again very interesting,  we met lots of interesting Czech people eg. David Černý, Jiří Suchý, Jarek Nohavica.

Funny but tough lessons were spiced with singing and theatre.

Czech was the main language also during the walks through Prague, or canoe trip.

More pictures of  this group can be found via this link.

Hodně štěstí s češtinou!

Two and half months with this group of 8 people was for me an interesting and challenging  experience. I think this group was a nice mix.
We really enjoyed working together, eventhough not everyone was on the same level of  Czech.
The main goal of all students was to talk a lot in Czech. Thanks to discussing some interesting topics students naturally extended their  vocabulary but in the meantime they realized that we had to “refresh” the grammar a bit.
Based on the wish of students we also covered some advanced grammar (conditionals, conjunctions, aspect, prepositions).
Hopefully we will have the chance to continue together in the next evening course in Albertov again.

Note: It’s funny to realize that the biggest motivation for taking language studies is having a “czech girlfriend”…

Kristyna.

Albertov has been the place where Asia met America. Five nationalities in this class (a mixed group of young Chinese,  Vietnamese, Korean, Turkish and Brazilian ) meet in Prague to learn the basics of Czech up to A1 level. It turned out to be tough work for me and also for my students. Some even had difficulty to read and write in Latin alphabet. But now they are all able to  read, write and pronounce basic words on A1 level.  They now know basic phrases and are able to  talk in “broken Czech” about themselves and common topics. They have managed to use past and future tense.

It was hard work, both teacher and students did their best. I’ve been patient and the students were strong. We had quite some fun together and studied in a playful (but strict) atmosphere. It has been a great learning experience for myself and I will definitely remember this group.

• 捷克是困难的，但中国更重要的是，谢谢你们的工作。
• Tiếng Séc là khó khăn, nhưng Tiếng Trung Quốc, ngay cả nhiều hơn, nhờ công việc của bạn.
• Çekçe, zor ama daha Çince, teşekkürler, çalışma için.
• Checa é difícil, mas mesmo chineses mais, obrigado pelo vosso trabalho.
• 체코어, 어렵지만 더욱 중국어, 감사 업무에 적합.
• Cestina je tezka, ale cinstina urcite vic,diky za vasi praci.

Nice and colorful setup of the group of beginners, 6 men (Chinese, American, French, Italian and Dutch) and one Kongian woman decided to continue after 2 months of Czech with me.

The best thing was  we had to talk only Czech because of Tonda, the Chinese guy. Seems students liked the tutoring because they attended the course regurarly.

The atmospehere was relaxed, we could study in playful way. Attendants of the course were also educated to develope “czech heart” by singing Czech national anthem.

I am happy to see  my students succesfully finishing a semestral course, passing final test and verbal exam. It was tough and  stressful. Now two weeks of relaxation…
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