English or Czenglish?

Twentieth Anniversary Edition

An Overview

Don Sparling's English or Czenglish has been the most popular English Usage textbook in the Czech Republic for almost 20 years now. In its first edition, it was a collection of sentences incorrectly translated from Czech to English by first-year English majors, together with comments on the nature of their mistakes. Jakub Marecek has been working under the direction of Jarmila Fictumova on:

• enriching the text with new example sentences, carefully chosen from corpora
• supporting the claims made in the book with corpus evidence and make them more accurate, if needed
• setting the textbook anew in type in several editions with varying levels of detail
• reworking one edition into a textbook proper with entries organized into units by topic, accompanied by exercises and interest boxes.

A Preview

For a preview, see our draft of entries 1-75:

• Modern Textbook Edition in Colour (pdf) or Black-and-White (pdf)
• Modern Reference Edition (pdf)
• Classic Reference Edition (pdf)
• The Concise Version (pdf).

A very preliminary version of the complete book is also available:

• Modern Textbook Edition in Colour (pdf) or Black-and-White (pdf)
• Modern Reference Edition (pdf)
• Classic Reference Edition (pdf)
• The Concise Version (pdf).

Should you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact Jakub <jakub at marecek dot cz>, Dr. Fictumova <jarmila at fictumova dot cz> or Dr. Sparling <sparling at czs dot muni dot cz>.

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