Česká televize pro každého z nás

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A2 Czech listening practice · Czech · Curated for beginners

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What is Česká televize?

Česká televize
proper noun · Czech media
“Czech Television, the public broadcaster (ČT)”

This promo is for Česká televize (Czech Television), the country’s public broadcaster, known by its initials ČT. The tagline says it plainly: «Česká televize zbližuje generace» (“Czech Television brings generations closer”). Funded by a household licence fee, it runs channels for news (ČT24), sport (ČT sport), kids (ČT :D), and culture (ČT art).

For learners it’s a goldmine: clear studio Czech, subtitles, and an archive (iVysílání) of news, fairy tales, and the beloved bedtime cartoon Večerníček. Mentioning ČT to a Czech is like mentioning the BBC to a Brit, a shared institution everyone has an opinion about.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Czech listening practice listening practice?

96.3%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Czech words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Czech.

General Czech frequency

87.8%
Top 1,000
96.3%
Top 2,000
97.6%
Top 5,000

Spoken Czech frequency

95.6%
Top 1,000
98.5%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A2 level.

fadíme
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
přije
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
zbližuje
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
pomocnou ruku
1×
to offer help or support

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

★Where you’ll hear this
  • ▸Live and on demand at Česká televize and its iVysílání archive.
  • ▸ČT24 for slow, clear news Czech.
  • ▸The nightly Czech bedtime cartoon Večerníček, a ritual for generations.
  • ▸Compared to public broadcasters like the BBC and Germany’s ARD.

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