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Semestral “false beginners” course, Sept.-January 2009/2010 UJOP Albertov

kristyna — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:27:00 +0000

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.

Czech and Czech Culture, 1 month Summer beginners course, August 2009, UJOP Albertov

kristyna — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:31:54 +0000

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!

Evening 3 months intermediate course, March-May 2009

kristyna — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:10:22 +0000

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.

Beginners semestral course, Jan.-May 2009

kristyna — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:04:08 +0000

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.

Albertov semestral course beginners; Sept 2008 - Jan 2009

kristyna — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:19:52 +0000

Five hours a day for five months. This nicely mixed group of 14 dedicated students from 8 different countries will manage to go beyond the basics of Czech language and develop communicative skills on A1 level.
Traditional program following the syllab, book Communicative Czech, and controlled by month tests is being mixed with active learning activities. We will manage to use base of czech declination and conjugation in lively situations. We will be able to express ourseleves in basic topics and follow not very complicated conversation with czech native speaker.

Albertov three months evening course, Oct-Dec 2008

kristyna — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:17:49 +0000

This group of 12 people will be able to understand Czech speakers and react in not very complicated situations. In nice and relaxed atmosphere the Czech Step By Step was a perfect guide to basic level of Czech language.

Beginners Intensive Summer Course Jul-Aug 2008

kristyna — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:49:01 +0000

“Czech and czech Culture”
Summer Intensive Course, Albertov Study Center, 28.7. - 22.8. 2008

This summer course was far from a traditional language course.
Five hours of intensive teaching Czech every weekday and a wide range of afternoon and evening activities made the course very special.

We have organised an educational and cultural program consisting of:

visiting interesting sights and places
discussions with well-known personalities of the Czech cultural life
guided tours of Prague and
trips outside Prague

and enriched by activities organised by the teachers themself. I have organised the following activities: A rock concert, theatre DISK, one day canoeing trip with lessons on the water and a lesson of the Acting with inner partner.

Students: 13 students from different european countries.
Level: absolute beginners
Material used: Czech Express I., Czech Step by Step, lesson 1-6

Topics covered: basic social phrases, greetings, how to introduce myself, talking about myself and my family, likes and dislikes,

daily program (basic verbs, past and future tense), orientation, asking for direction, how to order in restaurant, numerals, how to make an appointment.

Video footage of one of the ‘games’:

Beginners Intensive Course - January 2008

kristyna — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:07:16 +0000

The Intensive Language Course for CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) organised by Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies

12 American students, totall beginners, special material developed by UJOP

Advanced Czech - Monster.com - Sept 2007

kristyna — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:39:21 +0000

Advanced Czech course for Monster.com Prague.

3 students

Reading with understanding:Povídky -K.Čapek, Cesta do zaslíbené země- L. Fuks, Ostrov mrtvých králů- I.Klíma.
Enhancement of vocabulary
Czech spelling

Intermediate Czech - Monster.com - Sept 2007

kristyna — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:00:26 +0000

Intermediate Czech course for Monster.com Prague.

3 students, Czech Step by Step, own materials

Enhancement of communicative skills, talking about myself (verbs, adverbs, enhancement of vocabullary), tenses, conditionals