Аннотация:A new communicatively oriented manual of Czech language for Russian students
is presented. The proximity of Czech and Russian allows the author to situate into the
Preface the grammatical minimum sufficient for understanding of sister language
(according to the John Comenius' comparative principle of language teaching
/ learning the differences and affinities of Czech and Russian in the field of phonetics,
word-building, morphology and syntax are taken into account). The body of
manual presents Czech language in the form of dialogues and micro-dialogues chiefly.
Ethno-cultural information in presented by passing remarks and by dozens of
original texts about famous Czech politicians, organizations, buildings and other
linguo-cultural phenomena illustrated by applicable photographs. The dictionary in
fine contains about 3 000 Czech expressions with Russian equivalents and about
2 000 Russian expressions with Czech equivalents.