MOOC "Czech language contact kit": registration deadline April 28!

27 January 2025

  • Europe and Eurasia

  • Distance learning

  • Digital education

  • Training

Are you a curious tourist? A language enthusiast? A professional preparing for a trip to the Czech Republic? This MOOC will help you acquire the basics of the language of a country that is very close to us, both geographically and historically.
Visuel MOOC tchèque 2025
Visuel MOOC tchèque 2025 © Inalco‎

Launched in 2017, Inalco's MOOCs can be accessed worldwide via the France Université Numérique (FUN) platform. These "contact kits" offer beginners cultural cues as well as an oral and written initiation centered around several tasks enabling a first contact in the language: introducing yourself, getting around, finding accommodation, eating, making a purchase...

The "contact kit in oriental languages": Czech

Very short practical dialogues will enable you to acquire the words and automatisms necessary for your daily exchanges. The dialogues are accompanied by grammar points and simple vocabulary. Video activities and written exercises will enable you to check your knowledge and progress. Finally, we'll talk to you about everyday life in the Czech Republic.

Training timetable

What you will learn

At the end of the course, you will know:

  • introduce yourself
  • book a hotel room
  • buy transport tickets and get around
  • place an order in a restaurant
  • shop for gifts and food

Bref, you'll be ready to stop being strangers in the Czech Republic and make friends here!

Format

The MOOC lasts 10 weeks. Each week, you'll find in video:

  • playlets depicting common communication situations, with dialogues, explanations and activities
  • short theoretical lectures that develop the elements of grammar, lexicon and civilization
  • the presentation of tourist highlights and a focus on crafts
  • an optional language seminar that puts the grammar elements covered into a broader, contrastive theoretical context, taking into consideration other Slavic languages close to Czech

Assessment and certification

Daily exercises and weekly self-corrected tests will enable you to check your acquired knowledge.

A 50% pass in graded exercises will earn you a free OpenBadge attesting to your attendance and prior learning.

If you wish, you can take afee-paying distance-proctored exam to earn an official certificate of 4 ECTS credits.

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