Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Czech

Vor fast 300 Jahren wurden Protestant*innen in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien verfolgt. Da sie an ihrem Glauben festhalten wollten, blieb ihnen nur die Flucht übrig. Viele von ihnen gingen nach Preußen. In Berlin und Rixdorf (Berlin-Neukölln) siedelten sich im 18. Jahrhundert mehrere Tausend tschechische Protestant*innen an. Eine der Flüchtlingsgemeinden war die Brüdergemeine. Ihre Mitglieder verfassen bis heute Lebensläufe, die beim Begräbnisritual vorgelesen werden. Über 180 Biografien aus dem 18./19. Jahrhundert werden mit modernen Methoden der Digital Humanities, aber auch mit...

How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on a crucial juncture in the post-communist history of the Czech Republic, when an orthographic commission with a moderate reformist agenda found itself the focus of enormous public controversy.

Delving back into history, Bermel explores the Czech nation's long tradition of intervention and its association with the purity of the language, and how in the twentieth century an ascendant linguistic school - Prague Functionalism - developed into a progressive but centralizing ideology whose power base was...

How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on a crucial juncture in the post-communist history of the Czech Republic, when an orthographic commission with a moderate reformist agenda found itself the focus of enormous public controversy.

Delving back into history, Bermel explores the Czech nation's long tradition of intervention and its association with the purity of the language, and how in the twentieth century an ascendant linguistic school - Prague Functionalism - developed into a progressive but centralizing ideology whose power base was...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A Frequency Dictionary of Czech is an invaluable tool for all learners of Czech, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.

Based on data from a 100 million word corpus and evenly balanced between spoken, fiction, non-fiction and newspaper texts, the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part of speech indexes.

All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence with English translation and an indication of register variation....