Everyday Czech: getting through the day

Who it's for

For beginners settling into life in Czechia who want vocabulary they can use the same afternoon — at the shop, the café, the tram stop, the front door. No grammar background needed. If you've just arrived and want to stop pointing and start asking, this is your starting set.

What's inside

40 cards for an ordinary Czech day: shopping and money (obchod, cena, platit, účet), food and drink (káva, pivo, voda, oběd), getting around (tramvaj, zastávka, jízdenka, nádraží), home and time (byt, klíč, dnes, hodina), and the everyday courtesies (prosím, děkuji, promiňte). Each card has:

• the Czech word with its English meaning;
• IPA in the standard Czech accent;
• a short, natural example sentence;
• notes on the useful quirks — prosím does the work of "please," "here you go," and "pardon?."

How to study

These are words you can test in the wild the same day, so do exactly that — learn ten, then use them on your next errand. Spaced repetition keeps them fresh between trips; ten minutes a day is plenty. Once the daily basics feel automatic, widen your base with "100 essential Czech words to start with," or add survival sets like "Czech at the post office: parcels and mail."