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17 September, 2009 - 09:25

markabroad

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Good morning all - or afternoon - or evening - or night???

I have started to stagnate in my Czech at home studies and have decided that it's about time to find a group class that I can learn and practice with.
Unfortunately it seems that most classes are in mid-afternoon, latest about 4pm and the teachers who come to your home are just ridiculously expensive.

If there is anyone out there who knows of classes that begin at about 6.30pm and are relatively affordable please could you let me know.

Thanks a stack

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17 September, 2009 - 15:48

almabana

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Same with Czech course

Hi,

I have the same problem at the moment, I searched on the internet and found some course - I usually looked for something on beginner level - and there are some in the afternoon, evening period too.

I found some starting in October, last 3,5-4 months, for cca 2800-3300 Kc, courses usually 90 min / week.

My biggest dilemma always if I found good teacher there or not. Now, based on alp's suggestion I will check out Aschool too.

In case anyone has experience with Heureka and MKM, from language course point of view, pls share with me.

thanks,

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18 September, 2009 - 14:54

tyvole (not verified)

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I took Czech lessons at MKM when I worked there, so I got a discount. They have one teacher called Pavel, who is quite good, he doesn't speak English, so if we didn't understand a word he would act it out. He only lets you speak Czech in the lessons and doesn't allow dictionaries, which is good, the problem is several other teachers substituted for him, I guess when he was traveling or hungover and none of the subs are on the same page as him. So we ended up going over past tense three times during the semester and I found that the subs just weren't organized. It seemed some of them prepared the lessons, five minutes before the lesson, or they just rocked up and bullshitted.

17 September, 2009 - 12:12

alp

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Czech course

Hello markabroad,

What does it mean to you "relatively affordable"? How many Kc/hour?

Last year I attended a Czech course for beginners at Aschool, it began end September and lasted till June, one session a week (1hour and a half), on Tuesdays, it started at 19:30.I paid around 6 500Kc.

My teacher was Magda Nezvalova (quite important detail cause we had another teacher in the beginning and she was not very good), Magda is also an English teacher, she's great.

Only I don't think they organize also courses for intermediate level so if you already know some Czech the first lessons will be quite boring to you.

The method used is: "New Czech Step by Step" by Lida Hola, the school sold the book to us (book, activity book plus CD).