Free Czech learning resources
11 free resources, checked and categorised.
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Czech asks for patience early. Seven cases, three genders and consonant clusters that English speakers find genuinely difficult to say all arrive in the first weeks, and there is no way to sequence around them. The good news is that Czech is highly regular once the system is visible — the difficulty is steep rather than long.
Use a structured course and stay with it. Czech grammar is too interconnected for a self-assembled path: cases, gender and verb aspect depend on each other, and learning them out of order produces confusion that takes longer to unpick than it would have taken to learn properly.
Add listening early even though it will be hard, because Czech spelling is phonetic and rewards ear training quickly. Free Czech material is solid for a language of its size — courses, dictionaries and public radio all exist and are genuinely free.
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A downloadable Czech lexicon (can be imported to Anki as a csv file <3).
A theasaurus.
Polish-Czech swearwords dictionary.
Many Chech language dictionaries created by the author of the blog.
The biggest Czech dictionary, by Ústav pro jazyk český. In Czech.
A dictionary of Czech synonyms.
Learn it there, practise it here
Free resources are great for input — reading, listening, explanations. They are weaker at the two things that actually move you forward: speaking Czech out loud, and remembering what you met once. That is what OwnSlides is for.
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Practise what you read
Turn a grammar point or article into exercises, so it moves from recognised to usable.
Keep the words
Save new words to My Words and let spaced repetition bring them back before you forget them.
This directory began from a community-built list of free language resources — a year of collecting and checking by Joanna (u/chlebka) and dozens of contributors who suggested links, shared freely. See the original list. We have since expanded, re-checked and re-categorised it, and we keep the per-resource credits where the original list recorded them.