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Moved to the Czech Republic? Here's How to Actually Learn Czech as an Expat
You moved to Prague or Brno expecting daily exposure to do the heavy lifting. Then you hit your first visit to the OAMP (Department for Asylum and Migration Policy) for your residence permit, the clerk switched to fluent English, and that was the end of your practice for the day. Czech has a reputation for being grammatically brutal — seven cases, irregular declensions — which pushes a lot of learners to over-focus on grammar before they have enough vocabulary to use it.Why frequency-based learning works especially well hereThe good news: Czech spelling is phonetic, so once you know the sounds,...