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The Czech FAST course is designed to help students acquire the communications skills necessary to deal with the most common social and everyday situations encountered.

Designed as an 8-week introductory course, the FAST course does not attempt to present a systematic and comprehensive introduction to Czech grammar. Grammar is instead presented in a very elementary form to help gain some undertanding of "what is happening."

The course is divided into 12 lessons, plus an introductory lesson. The lessons cover the following topics: introductions, asking directions, public transportation, using the telephone, at a restaurant, shopping, at a hotel, car trouble, at work, car accident, and dealing with servants.

The learning activities for most units are: cultural notes, dialogues, exercises, vocabulary, and language notes.

Each unit of this course, aside from review units, is divided into three parts: Basic Sentences, Notes, Drills. Units 13 on have a fourth part, a reading passage. The Basic Sentences are normal dialogue material, meant to be memorized. The Notes explain the grammatical structure of the language and are divided roughly into three phrases. The first phase (Units 1-5, 7-11) has a great deal of grammatical material per unit, in order to give the student a working knowledge of the most frequent patterns. The second phase (Units 13-17, 19-23) treats fewer grammatical features per unit. The third phase (Units 25-29) gives more overall treatments of selected features. The index to the grammatical notes gives ready reference to all features discussed.

Czech (FAST) Course

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Thursday, Mar 11, 2010

Czech threats (European Voice)

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 02:15:49 CST
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Revenge and possible sackings in Prague. Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. According to Respekt , a Czech weekly news magazine, Jan Kohout, the Czech Republic's foreign minister, is out to sack Milena Vicenova, who has been Prague's permanent representative to the EU since January 2008, either at the end of March or in early April.
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Czech renewable energy boom tests grid safety limits (EurActiv)

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 02:15:49 CST
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The installed capacity of wind and solar energy projects approved in the Czech Republic is nearly four times what can be safely fed into the country's electricity grid, energy distributors said on Wednesday (10 March).
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Czech press survey - March 11 (Ceske noviny)

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 02:15:49 CST
http%3A//www.ceskenoviny.cz/
Prague - The Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD) not only has many expensive and rather bad plans on how to spend public money but it also is the only party that talks about them, Petr Simunek writes in the daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) today.
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Czech minister offers to quit over alleged relationship (New Kerala)

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 02:15:49 CST
http%3A//www.newkerala.com/
Prague, March 11 : Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer refused late Wednesday to accept the resignation of Human Rights Minister Michael Kocab, who offered to step aside over media reports alleging that he had a romantic relationship with a subordinate.
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Tabor Looking For Used Czech Day Costumes (Yankton Press & Dakotan)

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 02:15:49 CST
http%3A//www.yankton.net/
TABOR - The Tabor Chamber of Commerce is looking for used Czech Day costumes, all sizes. If you have any you wish to sell or donate to the Chamber, contact Kathy Kortan at 463-2482.
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Day of Sun Commemorated in Czech (Korean Central News Agency)

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 01:20:17 CST
http%3A//www.kcna.co.jp/ - 55 minutes ago
Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- A reading session on a work of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and seminar on his exploits were held in the Czech Republic on Mar. 4 on the occasion of the Day of the Sun.
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Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010

Czech repair of famed Charles Bridge faces protest (Idaho State Journal)

Wed, Mar 10, 2010 10:16:23 CST
http%3A//www.journalnet.com/ - 15 hours 59 minutes ago
In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 photo, a view of the legendary medieval Charles Bridge is seen, in Prague, Czech Republic. Built like a mighty fortress, Charles Bridge has survived floods and fires over the past 650 years. But alarmed conservationists and politicians are warning that the storied span linking Prague's two oldest neighborhoods might succumb to the latest threat renovation. (AP
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Hundreds of Czech town halls hoist Tibetan flag (Phayul)

Wed, Mar 10, 2010 10:16:23 CST
http%3A//www.phayul.com/ - 15 hours 59 minutes ago
Prague - The total of 364 town halls in the Czech Republic today hoisted Tibetan flags, one more than a year ago, the Internet information system on Tibet said.
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Czech friends visit schools in Bay County (The News Herald)

Wed, Mar 10, 2010 06:15:59 CST
http%3A//www.newsherald.com/ - 20 hours ago
PANAMA CITY - For more than three years, students, teachers and administrators have been communicating with a sister school in the Czech Republic. On Tuesday, everyone at the Margaret K. Lewis School in Millville met some of their overseas
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Tuesday, Mar 09, 2010

New Defence Ministry site provides information on Czech soldiers killed abroad during world wars (Radio Prague)

Tue, Mar 09, 2010 17:51:17 CST
http%3A//www.radio.cz/ 1 day 8 hours 24 minutes ago
The fates of Czech soldiers who died abroad during the first and second world wars are being mapped in a newly created War Graves Record. The internet-based project documents more than 1,800 war graves around the world where Czech soldiers are buried, along with information about how and when they died.
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Three candidates to vie for Czech Days Queen (Tyndell Tribune)

Tue, Mar 09, 2010 16:11:50 CST
http%3A//www.tyndallsdnews.com/ 1 day 10 hours 4 minutes ago
The Tabor Chamber of Commerce has announced candidates for 2010 Czech Days Queen.
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Czech Political Gridlock May Affect Rating, Moody's Says (Bloomberg)

Tue, Mar 09, 2010 06:15:41 CST
http%3A//www.bloomberg.com/ 1 day 20 hours ago
The Czech Republic's A1 credit rating may be at risk if elections in May fail to break a deadlock in parliament that hampers efforts to narrow a record budget deficit, Moody's Investors Service said.
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Czech February Inflation Unexpectedly Slowed on Fuel Prices (Bloomberg)

Tue, Mar 09, 2010 06:15:41 CST
http%3A//www.bloomberg.com/ 1 day 20 hours ago
Czech inflation unexpectedly slowed in February as growth in fuel prices was capped, outweighing the higher costs in beverages and housing prices.
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Czech Social Democrats Stay Highly Popular (Angus Reid)

Tue, Mar 09, 2010 04:58:59 CST
http%3A//www.angus-reid.com/ 1 day 21 hours 17 minutes ago
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - The Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD) continues to hold the upper hand in the country's political scene, according to a poll by SANEP. 32.4 per cent of respondents would vote for the main opposition party in this year's legislative election, essentially unchanged since February.
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Growing Pinoy headcount warms life in Czech Republic (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)

Tue, Mar 09, 2010 03:30:08 CST
http%3A//www.abs-cbnnews.com/ 1 day 22 hours 45 minutes ago
PRAGUE (PRAHA), Czech Republic - They stepped outside the moss-covered stone-church in cadence with the white flakes falling languorously from a mint blue sky.
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Monday, Mar 08, 2010

Czech Trade Beats Estimates on Renewed Demand Abroad (Update2) (Bloomberg)

Mon, Mar 08, 2010 14:16:11 CST
http%3A//www.bloomberg.com/ 2 days 11 hours 59 minutes ago
The Czech trade surplus widened more than analysts forecast in January as exports grew faster than imports on renewed demand for vehicles and machinery abroad.
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Czech officials discuss Afghan mission reinforcement (Russian Information Agency Novosti)

Mon, Mar 08, 2010 14:16:11 CST
http%3A//rss.feedsportal.com/ 2 days 11 hours 59 minutes ago
Top Czech officials discussed on Monday NATO's request for reinforcement of the Czech military mission in Afghanistan, the CTK news agency reported
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Czech championship result and standings (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports)

Mon, Mar 08, 2010 14:16:11 CST
http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/ 2 days 11 hours 59 minutes ago
Czech championship result and standings on Monday Slavia Prague 3 Ceske Budejovice 2
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Czech Minister: Solar Cuts a Priority (TheStreet.com)

Mon, Mar 08, 2010 14:16:11 CST
http%3A//www.thestreet.com/ 2 days 11 hours 59 minutes ago
The political battle over solar feed-in tariff incentives in the Czech Republic has taken a more public -- and high profile -- turn, as Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer declares his government's intent to pass a bill that would cut the rates paid to producers of renewable energy, notably solar companies.
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Czech Trade Balance Posted 13th Consecutive Surplus in January (Bloomberg)

Mon, Mar 08, 2010 09:50:24 CST
http%3A//www.bloomberg.com/ 2 days 16 hours 25 minutes ago
The Czech Republic posted a trade surplus for a 13th consecutive month in January as exports of vehicles advanced. The surplus widened to 13.1 billion koruna ($702 million) from a 2.8 billion-koruna surplus in December, the Prague-based statistics office said on its Web site today.
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Czech Unemployment Rate Rises to 9.9%, Highest Level Since 2004 (Bloomberg)

Mon, Mar 08, 2010 08:35:59 CST
http%3A//www.bloomberg.com/ 2 days 17 hours 40 minutes ago
The Czech unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent in Feburary, the highest level since March 2004, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs said today in Prague.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-08 07:34 Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on March 8 (Interactive Investor)

Mon, Mar 08, 2010 02:15:11 CST
http%3A//www.iii.co.uk/ 3 days ago
PRAGUE, March 8 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial markets on Monday.
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