Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:22:03 +0200Josef Fronek on the "drudgery" and rewards of compiling language dictionarieshttps://english.radio.cz/josef-fronek-drudgery-and-rewards-compiling-language-dictionaries-8087516© 2026 Radio Prague International When Josef Fronek began working on his Czech-English dictionary in the late 1970s, he embarked on a journey spanning four decades, which still continues to this day. His project had fairly humble beginnings: He began by collecting samples of English usage in shoeboxes. Today, his English-Czech/Czech-English dictionaries could almost be considered "required reading" for any Czech scholars studying English or English-speaking students brave enough to take on the complex Czech language. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/slovniky1.jpg?timestamp=1591468422 Josef Fronek on the "drudgery" and rewards of compiling language dictionaries https://english.radio.cz/josef-fronek-drudgery-and-rewards-compiling-language-dictionaries-8087516 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9