Czech Phrases for Beginners

Learn 100 Czech phrases while listening to a native speaker. Words like: yes, no, hello, I understand, good morning, excuse me, cheers, goodbye and 92 other phrases. Czech is considered a difficult language to learn. The US Foreign Service Institute has created a list of Language Difficulty Ranking. Czech is in category 4 (out of 5 categories) together with Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Turkish, Icelandic and many more.

100 Czech Phrases

Language difficulty ranking category 4 comprises languages with significant linguistic differences from English. A learner will need 44 weeks or 1100 hours to learn Czech or any other language in this category. Czech is reputedly a difficult language with its case system and verbal aspect. As many people in Prague speak English there is no urgent need to learn to speak Czech. Yet, it is nice to surprise Czech people with a few words in Czech. Simply listen to this video, remember some of the words and impress the locals by ordering beer in Czech!

All you need is: Pivo

There are more than 12 million native speakers of Czech. Most of them live in the Czech Republic. Czech belongs to the Indo-European language family, to the western Slavonic group of which Polish and Slovak are also members. It is a highly inflected language. The words change their form according to their position in the sentence. No need to learn this complicated grammar, simply pick up a few phrases and words. The most important word to know is: pivo (beer)!