History of Czech Language

Czech,(chĕk; čeština) is the official language of the Czech Republic.

Czech, in the past sometimes also known as Bohemian,is a member of the West Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Czech is spoken by approximately 11 million people, of whom over 10 million dwell in the Czech Republic and close to 1 million of live in Slovakia and North America combined.

The Czech language developed at the close of the 1st millennium from the Proto-Slavic language.1 The Czech language, jointly along with other languages which include Polish, Slovak or Serbian encompass the group of languages known as the "western Slavic". However, the Czech language was also largely affected by the eastern and southern Slavic groups therefore specific learning patterns can be connected with Czech and Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Croatian or Macedonian.

Other languages that left some influence on Czech include Latin, German or Old Church Slavonic but also some combination of smaller languages brought in the Czech area by nomads. Every of these brought its relative portion of vocabulary expansion, its twist of the original grammar rules and how words are spelled and pronounced.

Is it hard to Learn Czech?

The correct answer is it depends on some factors. If your native language is of a Slavic basis or you are very familiar with another Slavic language, learning to speak and understand Czech will be an easy accomplishment. If not, then once you learn the grammar of Czech or how to structure a sentence, it will be difficult for you to understand, even with direct speech, CD learning tapes or cassettes. You will need to use additional tools to arrive at some type of fluency.

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