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České reálie ve výuce jihoslovanských jazyků pro Čechy
Czech Life and Institutions in Teaching South Slavic Languages for Czechs

Author(s): Michał Przybylski
Subject(s): Education, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Sociology of Culture, Translation Studies
Published by: Porta Balkanica, z. s.
Keywords: cultural background; Czech life and institutions; translation; South Slavic languages; teaching foreign languages; competitiveness of the subject of study;

Summary/Abstract: This contribution is devoted to one aspect of teaching South Slavic languages that is relatively overlooked at Czech universities. Although these courses generally do sufficiently cover traits specific to the environment of a studied language, the same cannot be said for the daily life and institutions of their own, Czech environment. And yet in practice, superb knowledge of these matters and the ability to readily express them in a foreign language are demanded of translators and interpreters very frequently.

  • Issue Year: 8/2016
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 5-10
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Czech
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