Czech Express: LANGMaster.com
LANGMaster Czech Express is a fast Czech language course aimed at students of all nationalities encountering Czech for the first time. It serves as a practical gateway to the language and forms a solid foundation for further study, while at the same time is also completely appropriate for those whose aspirations stretch to “survival level” Czech.
Finally a Czech on CD course that is worth anything. This description from the Czech company Langmaster is fairly accurate. Of course, CD-ROM language courses are always limited in their use - they're always a complementary material at best (the other two existing course are virtually useless - one because it has no useful information the other because it is aimed at translation only). However, Lída Holá, the author of the interesting Czech Step by Step textbook did a very good job. Now, the CD does not have all the bells and whistles you might see on other Langmaster products for English or even some of the high-value CDs for French or English produced by large companies. There is no video or animation. However, there is plenty of good sound and some nice illustrations. There is also a grammar and the optional dictionary (Czech-English or Czech-German).
The navigation is a little confusing and the lessons stop at a fairly low level but overall it is probably worth the money if you're already taking a course, particularly, if your teacher can spend a bit of time with you to build it into your lessons. If you're just starting on your own, there's no harm in using this but it will not replace a good Teach Yourself textbook which, of course, does not replace a good teacher.






