Live and work in the Czech Republic

i would love to move settle and live and work in Prague.
it has been my dream city for a long while. i have no clue how to do it and what to do to get there.

Well, I didn’t work out there but I spent a term at the university in Brno and had a great time there!

I was honored with a Fulbright award as a Senior Scholar, and my assignment was at Charles University in Prague. Living there and meeting people on a day-to-day basis was completely different from vacationing, and a wonderful experience. Definitely worth doing!

Amazing city,amazing country,amazing people.I love all about Czech Republic.I hope to stay there for good …

Thanks to the late Senator Fulbright, I’m now living and working (at least temporarily) in the Czech Republic. It’s as wonderful as I had hoped and I’m semi-dreading returning to reality.

once the waitor spilt this s h i t all over me and in the middle of reproduction he walked into the room without knocking. there is no hotel worth staying at and the houses are recked

I worked in Prague several years back for a journalism organisation and miss the Czech Republic terribly!

Definitely make the effort to learn some Czech. Yes, it can be a challenging language at first, but it goes a very long way to being a good guest in the Czech Republic, without mentioning that it’ll make your life easier (even if it’s just knowing the weather forecast or reading menus…) Speaking Czech before I worked there made a huge difference in how people treated me.

It’d also be good to either live/visit outside of the major cities to know what life outside of Prague is like. I lived in Prague, but had some very good friends who were Esperantists in Pardubice whom I’d visit on the weekends. Being with them gave me some very needed perspective on the changes that Czech Republic is going through and how it affects people directly, as well as a chance to experience daily life as part of a Czech family rather than as simply a visitor or expat.

I spent the summer of 2004 in Prague as an intern at the Czech Republic, but it was more like an extended vacation that any semblance of real life. I learned a minimum of czech; I concentrated on the words and phrases which brought food and beer my way. I lived in the Ambassador’s residence (see pic), which was nice enough as it is an old castle, but rather divorced from the general czech populance. I’d really love to move into a barn or something in a small town and gain some understanding of Czech life outside of Prague and other tourist heavy venues. I’d also like some Smazeny Syr.

The first year we were married my wife and I lived/worked in the Czech Republic (1994-95). It was a great experience. My wife worked for a big accounting firm, and she was the lone American in the office. I did the shopping and read a lot of books. I have so many fond memories. This started our expat living experience and we still haven’t had enough.

In addition to some very nice Czechs, we met a great community of expats from Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands and Australia. We lived in Smichov – near the brewery close to the train station and the river. We also had a great time exploring Central Europe from our base in Prague.

I’m not sure I’d wait to learn conversational Czech before going to live/work in the Czech Republic. Learning Czech is not easy – primarily because it is difficult to find anyone to practice with in the USA. It is not that much easier in Prague. Everyone I met in Prague who saw me trying to learn Czech thought it was cute – but silly. “There are only 6 million of us. We need to learn English,” they would tell me, and while I never gave up trying to add to the small amount of Czech I learned, over time I saw the difficulty of the situation more realisticly. As in most European countries, the schools produce multilingual youth – who are too glad to practice English to really waste time helping you fit in at the pub. That said, I think learning Czech is very doable in the Czech Republic (or maybe with the right teacher in the States) but living in a smaller city might make it a more attainable goal.

This relates to another goal—to speak Czech at conversational level