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dolorous_ett, I have decided that there needs to be fanfiction for Contemporary Czech, by Michael Heim.
I am aware that this concept may be a hard sell, because unlike the New Practical Chinese Reader, Contemporary Czech has no characters, no illustrations, and little vocabulary of interest for anybody other than the most abstracted of academics. Five weeks into the course, for example, we learn about pronouns and how to say "A symbol interests us not only for what it represents, but for what it is." By Week Eight we have progressed to telling people where you live and asking, "Excuse me, comrade. Could you tell me what university puts out a journal of Slavic languages and literatures?"
What this book does have, however, are an enormous number of random Sentences and Dialogues, all of them utterly disconnected from any sort of context or backstory, and many of them hinting at Byzantine intrigues lurking just behind the textbook's placid black-and-white pages. These stories, no doubt suppressed by the Communist regime, demand to be told.
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dolorous_ett, I have decided that there needs to be fanfiction for Contemporary Czech, by Michael Heim.I am aware that this concept may be a hard sell, because unlike the New Practical Chinese Reader, Contemporary Czech has no characters, no illustrations, and little vocabulary of interest for anybody other than the most abstracted of academics. Five weeks into the course, for example, we learn about pronouns and how to say "A symbol interests us not only for what it represents, but for what it is." By Week Eight we have progressed to telling people where you live and asking, "Excuse me, comrade. Could you tell me what university puts out a journal of Slavic languages and literatures?"
What this book does have, however, are an enormous number of random Sentences and Dialogues, all of them utterly disconnected from any sort of context or backstory, and many of them hinting at Byzantine intrigues lurking just behind the textbook's placid black-and-white pages. These stories, no doubt suppressed by the Communist regime, demand to be told.
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