The Czech FAST course is designed to help students acquire the communications skills necessary to deal with the most common social and everyday situations encountered. Designed as an 8-week introductory course, the FAST course does not attempt to present a systematic and comprehensive introduction to Czech grammar. Grammar is instead presented in a very elementary form to help gain some understanding of "what is happening." The course is divided into 12 lessons, plus an introductory lesson. The lessons cover the following topics: introductions, asking directions, public transportation, using the telephone, at a restaurant, shopping, at a hotel, culture, car trouble, at work, car accident, and dealing with servants. The learning activities for most units are: cultural notes, dialogues, exercises, vocabulary, and language notes. The course assumes the student has no prior knowledge of Czech and is fully self-instructional. Volume I contains 12 CDs and a 251 page textbook or 1 DVD with all lessons on MP3 with the textbook in a PDF file format. .
