Contemporary Czech

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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of Michigan, 1976 - Foreign Language Study - 363 pages

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PRONUNCIATION
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REVIEW
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Contemporary Czech
Michael Henry Heim
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accusative adjectives back book budu bych být cases clause common comparative consonant Czech čeho čem čemu česky dělat determinate dnes dobře dvě English feminine first following follows form forms genitive going good have help hlavní hodin jestli jít jste Karel know koho Kolik last LESSON like long look make mám masculine máte meaning means mít Mother náměstí nás něco několik než nominative Note NOTES nouns number only other past pattern perfective person pět plural Prague prepositional present Proč pronoun prosím před questions rád read right Russian Řekl říjen same sentences short school singular slovo speak stem student tady take teď tell tense there they third three time Translate tři used vám vás včera večer verb verbs VIII VOCABULARY vowel všechno will word words year

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About the author (1976)

Michael Henry Heim was born in New York on January 21, 1943. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and a doctorate in Slavic languages from Harvard University. He was fluent in Czech, French, German, Italian, Russian and Serbian/Croatian and possessed a reading knowledge of six more languages. He became a professor of Slavic languages at the University California at Los Angeles in 1972 and served as chairman of the Slavic languages department from 1999 to 2003. He was known for his translations of works by Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Thomas Mann and Anton Chekhov. He received numerous awards for his work including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2005, the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation in 2009, and the PEN Translation Prize in 2010. He died from complications of melanoma on September 29, 2012 at the age of 69.

Bibliographic information

TitleContemporary Czech
Michigan Slavic publications
Volume 3 of UCLA Slavic studies
AuthorMichael Henry Heim
PublisherDepartment of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of Michigan, 1976
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMay 1, 2008
ISBN0930042239, 9780930042233
Length363 pages
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Foreign Language Study / Czech
  
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