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Czech for English speakers now in Beta!
Thanks to the efforts of another amazing team of contributors, the Duolingo Czech for English speakers course is now available on web. Gratulace!
You can now start learning Czech and share your feedback to help polish it even more.
Let us know what you think :)
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If you guys are anything like me then you probably want to type everything correctly.
I am just using http://czech.typeit.org/ until the diacritics are added
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Finally! As I expected, it looks like one of the best courses on Duolingo. It's clear that the contributors put a lot of work into building it. Congratulations to Team Czech, you did a great job :)
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Is it my imagination, or is the voice the exact same as in the Google translate voice? I've listened to several words both on Duo and in Google translate, and I swear it's the exact same voice!
Thank you so so much for releasing this and huge kudos to the contributors!
My dad is from the Czech Republic and my mum is from Slovakia. I was born in Germany and they refused to raise me bilingual because they thought it was fun to speak in a language I couldn't understand (they always say they did it because they feared that I might speak German with an accent if they taught me Czech as well...but I know many people who were raised bilingual with Turkish or Russian for example and they don't have an accent). So I can't understand my other relatives which kinda sucks... I mean, sure, I snatched up a lot over the years and got a basic understanding from listening to them but I don't feel confident enough to speak or write Czech.
So thank you very very much again for giving me the chance to learn the language of my ancestors! :)
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Already really enjoying the course. The notes are great and just so excited it's here!
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Amazing :-)
So many courses to try, so little time :-(
I will make this one my next target, because it's clear from the effort that's gone into structuring it that it must surely be one of the best!
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Hello,
I want to strongly advise everyone starting this normal/forward course to install and active Camilo's user script "DuoLingo tree enhancer": https://www.duolingo.com/comment/19654789/Userscript-Tree-Enhancer
With it you can additionally (auto-)play TTS (L2) Czech audio for answers/solutions on right hand side L1 English-L2 Czech translations, which even the new DuoLingo (rewritten Scala) portal does NOT already provide out-of-the-box.
I tested it for Czech (standard TTS order configured including google) and it works as good, just like it does for my forward English-Portuguese tree.
Just find the "normal tree" tree enhancer button in the top right of your tree - besides the "Lingot store" button:
This is the default forward tree configuration, which enables the 2nd (Czech) audio:
What the "Check spelling" option does in the configuration below, please ask Camilo in his above linked script thread :-) I am curious.
Have fun!
Hey guys, I have to first say that I am so glad you are putting this together- I live in CR now and need to learn the language ASAP, so every little bit helps. However, in addition to the cases/declensions and genders (which are beyond alien to native english speakers) I really do not understand the demonstrative determiner pronouns AT ALL most of the time (these, this, that etc)- there are so many possibilites and they all depend on the gender plurality etc. It is great that you can click to see the various options for how to say each in the exercises, but I am always left scratching my head as to why which one goes with what. If you have the option to include a section on these, it would do wonders to help native english speakers like me avoid sounding like idiots :)