The start is simple – tell us what the 50 most important things are that you would like to say about yourself. Then we will also prepare 50 questions so you can ask others. And bingo - you are ready to have your first ever conversation in Czech. The experience of learning can be very rich and rewarding. You can learn faster.

As Czech is a minor world language, learners face even more obstacles than those of predominant world languages when seeking total immersion, one of the major ones being that there has not been, until now, any monolingual dictionary for foreigners who study Czech. CLO is proud to offer you the first and only one so far. The collection currently contains 1,200 most frequented words of the spoken local lingo, as well as all the words used in the 2 most popular Czech-for-foreigners textbooks, and even more words (approx. 8,000). The dictionary is growing fast. According to your interest, you can solicit new words to be added to the dictionary at earliest convenience. A monolingual dictionary, unlike the regular bilingual ones, gently guides a learner towards actually thinking in the target language and helps them to flex their tongue and mind in expressing themselves better.

Every text- or phrasebook is generally, to a greater or lesser degree, a merely approximate and fixed (closed) selection of generic "useful phrases and texts" which hardly fits or pleases everyone. This website aims to be an open textbook which you can adjust to your needs, interests and level. Upon registration you will be prompted to briefly indicate why you are interested in this language, which will further inform and orientate the tutor when tailoring the content for the greater benefit of the website users. You will also be asked to select, and later you can add, your own set of phrases, choosing from a list of them.

Also to be found are annotated song lyrics, magazine articles or unabridged excerpts of some Czech literary works. When reading your own texts, you can copy and paste or simply type an excerpt in our PŘEKLADAČ tool which will tell you straight away which words the CLO dictionary can or cannot generate. Those words the dictionary does not yet provide you can then very easily request to be added at earliest possible convenience.

And you are most welcome to suggest the topics and grammar focus of these. Apart from this, you can send to your tutor up to 10 own written attempts in Czech (each up to 1-page long) for proof reading and tips during the 3-month period; and you will get tutor´s review comments within 2 days.

E.g. how to understand the puzzling system of 7 different word endings (cases or pády) both in the singular and plural.
In this section you will also find a comprehensive list of links to the already existing free online grammar exercises that your browser would not necessarily dig up for you.

Knowing how and when to employ them to nurture fast learning can save you money, time and energy. After all, foreign language aquisition depends hugely on the input and effort of the learners themselves. This surely comes as no surprise.

In the links section you will see a comprehensive and well-researched list of resources a learner of Czech would ever need to know about. We don´t ignore or belittle our competition, we endorse it rather. For a good reason. Please do have a look at what´s out there, compare the alternatives, price lists, and we will be delighted and proud, of course, if you come back to us.