In regard to the growing number of requests for Czech language consultations, we recommend first trying to find the answer to your inquiry on your own in the Internet Language Reference Book. Users can find information about more than 109,000 dictionary entries on this website, as well as explanations of language phenomena that people repeatedly ask about in the Language Consulting Centre. The explanations are based on the Rules of Czech Orthography and Contemporary Grammar. However, some of the explanations in the Internet Language Reference Book are more detailed, complete and specific (e.g. capital letters, punctuation, subject-predicate agreement, inflection of personal and geographical names, etc.). Some of the information was compiled from special language reference books, academic journal articles, Czech state standards and the database of the Language Consulting Centre. The explanations also list inconsistencies in data between various language reference books or the differences between codification and standard use. In such cases, a commentary and a recommendation are added.
You can also find numerous answers to language inquiries in the column Interesting Questions and the journal Our Language. As we are constantly expanding the Language Consulting Centre website – particularly the Internet Language Reference Book – we welcome all related comments and suggestions at the Language Consulting Centre’s e-mail address: poradna@ujc.cas.cz.
We would like to point out that phone conversations with Language Consulting Centre staff may be recorded for consultation quality improvement purposes and to enable statistical and linguistic analysis of language phenomena that are the subject of inquiries. We use the results of statistical and linguistic analysis of inquiries in completely anonymous form in the preparation of academic and popular articles, language handbooks, etc.
