Basic Czech II, a modern textbook of Czech as a foreign language with English explanations, continues the concept of Basic Czech I. The elements of Czech grammar are gradually explained in close connection with a systematic acquisition of vocabulary and conversational phrases related to everyday situations. To facilitate the acquisition of the covered course material, the book contains clearly arranged grammar charts with Czech declension types, verbal phrases and prepositions as well as the key to the exercises, which makes the book suitable for use both in the classroom and self-study. The audio (Basic Czech I & Basic Czech II) and supplementary materials on both grammar and conversation are available at www.cupress.cuni.cz. Basic Czech II corresponds to the A2–B1 levels of the Common European Framework for Languages. Soundcloud channel with online audio tracks: https://soundcloud.com/karolinum-press/sets/adamovicova-ana-basic-czech-ii

"Basic Czech II" is a sequel to "Basic Czech I." The textbook's structure is similar to the first volume. It consists of seven units and ismethodologically based on a communicative and comparative approach. It gradually develops the essentials of Czech grammar and systematically covers vocabulary and conversation phrases pertinent to individual topics. The textbook includes charts of Czech declension types and verb valency, and a CD containing texts and dialogues also from the first volume of the book. "Basic Czech II" corresponds to the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages."

Basic Czech III is a sequel to Basic Czech I and Basic Czech II. It consists of six units (approx. 2000 words and phrases) and it is based on communicative and comparative approach. The textbook can be used in intensive as well as two-semester and other types of classes. It is also suitable for self-study. It provides the key to all exercises. All words and phrases are included in the Czech-English word list at the end of each unit. The grammatical and lexical topics covered in this volume exceed the level we commonly call basic. Nevertheless to preserve the formal continuity of all three volumes, we have kept the title "Basic Czech." Grammar and vocabulary covered corresponds with level B1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Second edition.

A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia's great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years—a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was living in Prague then—a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories—and here he joins his objective chronicle of the city under German occupation with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until the liberation of Bohemia in April 1945, after long seasons of unimaginable suffering and pain. Demetz expertly interweaves a superb account of the German authorities' diplomatic, financial, and military machinations with a brilliant description of Prague's evolving resistance and underground opposition. Along with his private experiences, he offers the heretofore untold history of an effervescent, unstoppable Prague whose urbane heart went on beating despite the deportations, murders, cruelties, and violence: a Prague that kept its German- and Czech-language theaters open, its fabled film studios functioning, its young people in school and at work, and its newspapers on press. This complex, continually surprising book is filled with rare human detail and warmth, the gripping story of a great city meeting the dual challenge of occupation and of war.