Teacher’s pick
I started taking Czech lessons from Eliška about five years ago (I was an absolute beginner at the time), and this was our last lesson: Eliška is taking a break from Italki (she's about to have a baby), and I have basically reached my goal for Czech. I recently passed CCE-C1 (with 89.4%, no less), and out there in the real world, I feel like a competent enough Czech speaker (at a minimum, Czechs - pretty much all of them - have finally stopped switching to English with me). Eliška helped enormously. She can explain the nuances of the Czech language, and she is really good at keeping the conversation going. The latter becomes very important once you reach even just A2/B1 level, and it's obviously hugely important if you're going to practice conversation with the same person for hundreds of hours on your way to a fairly high level of proficiency. I was lucky to have her for a teacher, and I strongly recommend her to any serious Czech learners, as soon as her baby lets her come back! ;-)
Jun 30, 2023