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.

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