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Czech Resources

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Digital Libraries

  • Slovník [1]
    Online dictionary for Czech & English
  • Bab.la Slovnik [2]
    Bidirectional online dictionary
     

Language Study

Grammar

  • Czech Grammar [3]
    Short grammar overview
  • Exercises in Czech grammar [4]
    Multiple choice grammar exercises

Vocabulary

  • Little Czech Primer in Pictures [5]
    An illustrated primer of basic Czech vocabulary
  • Czech Web Exercises [6]
    Declension, conjugation, and wordlist exercises

Reading & Writing

  • Omniglot [7]
    Provides information about Czech alphabet, pronunciation and language system
  • Intratext Digital Library of texts [8]
    An online library offering various genres of texts

Listening & Speaking

  • Listen to the Slavic Languages [9]
    Provides various types of audio files of written texts for Czech
  • The Czech Language [10]
    Covers overview of Czech and its spoken form including alphabet and pronunciation
  • How to speak Czech [11]
    Czech courses, textbooks and workbooks
  • Čeština pro mediky [12]
    Some basic lessons of everyday Czech, consisting of short texts and dialogs
  • Czech Games [13]
    Games for language practice

On-line Courses & Materials

  • Goethe Tests [14]
    Contains interactive cloze tests for Czech

Culture

News & Media

  • ABYZ News Links: media portal [15]
    A portal providing international, national, and local news
  • TV Radio World: international media directory [16]
    The website of TV Radio World
  • BBC World Service [17]
    News archive in Czech
  • Global Recordings Network [18]
    Provides audio religious materials in Czech
  • Czech National Geographic Magazine website [19]
    The website of an international magazine specializing in geography and nature
  • SCOLA [20]
    A service that re-transmits television and radio programming
  • Czech Republic Newspapers [21]
  • Prague Post Online [22]
    Prague Post Online weekly newspaper in English
  • News from the Czech Republic [23]
    Online newspaper service
  • Foreign Newspapers Online [24]
  • Czech Newspapers and News Sites [25]
    Czech Republic magazines, newspapers and news sites in English
  • Newspapers and other news sources [26]
    Czech newspapers and other news sources

Entertainment: Arts, Films & Music

  • Wikipedia [27]
    Music of the Czech Republic, includes a listing of today’s major musical groups
  • Wikipedia: Czech artists [28]
    Listing of Czech artists and galleries
  • My Czech Republic [29]
    History of the Czech film industry
  • Kinoeye [30]
    Site in English about Czech film

Information about Czech Culture

  • My Czech Republic: Czech travel, culture, community [31]
  • Culture: Czech Republic [32]
    Selected Internet Resources

The UI Main Library Films Collection

The UI Main Library offers extensive media collections in various languages. To find films, please visit the UI Main Library website and follow these steps:

1. Select "advanced search"
2. Scroll down to "Limit Search to:"
3. Choose your specific language and
4. Choose "Video-all" for "format."

International Writing Program (IWP) Writers

2007 Hana ANDRONIKOVA (novelist, fiction writer)

  • Bibliography [33]
  • Selection from work [34]

2004 Zdenka BECKER (playwright, fiction writer, translator)

  • Selection from work [35]
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Source URL (retrieved on 2013-05-26 01:13): http://international.uiowa.edu/node/1782

Links:
[1] http://www.slovnik.cz/
[2] http://cs.bab.la/slovnik/anglicky-cesky/
[3] http://mujweb.cz/www/grammarcz/
[4] http://www.lf3.cuni.cz/cestina/grammar/exercises.php
[5] http://www.czechprimer.org/
[6] http://bama.ua.edu/%7Eadrozd/czech/index.htm
[7] http://www.omniglot.com/writing/czech.htm
[8] http://www.intratext.com/Catalogo/
[9] http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Ehoutzage/listen.html
[10] http://www.czech-language.cz/
[11] http://hp.fs.cz/
[12] http://www.lf3.cuni.cz/cestina/levels/l1.php
[13] http://www.seelrc.org/lmwczech/games/game_directory.htm
[14] http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/ET/ET.HTM
[15] http://www.abyznewslinks.com/
[16] http://www.tvradioworld.com/
[17] http://www.bbc.co.uk/czech/
[18] http://globalrecordings.net/
[19] http://www.national-geographic.cz/
[20] http://www.scola.org/
[21] http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/czech_re.htm
[22] http://www.praguepost.com/
[23] http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejs322/czech.html
[24] http://www.multilingualbooks.com/online-newspapers-czech.html
[25] http://www.world-newspapers.com/czech.html
[26] http://www.kidon.com/media-link/cz.php
[27] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_Czech_Republic
[28] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3ACzech_artists
[29] http://www.myczechrepublic.com/czech_culture/czech_film.html
[30] http://www.kinoeye.org/archive/country_czech.php
[31] http://www.myczechrepublic.com/
[32] http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/european/czechr/resources/cz-culture.html
[33] http://iwp.uiowa.edu/sites/iwp.uiowa.edu/files/IWP2007_Bibliography-Andronikova.pdf
[34] http://iwp.uiowa.edu/sites/iwp.uiowa.edu/files/IWP2007_AndronikovaWritingSample_001.pdf
[35] http://iwp.uiowa.edu/sites/iwp.uiowa.edu/files/IWP2004_becker_zdenka.pdf