Online speaking clubs — the Czech Republic
English speaking clubs in the Czech Republic.
Czech professionals tend to arrive with careful grammar and a large passive vocabulary, and very little practice using either at conversational speed. Weekly speaking clubs are built for exactly that profile.
Speaking English in the Czech Republic
Why organisations here book speaking clubs.
Czech English has a distinctive shape. The school system produces genuinely strong reading and grammatical accuracy, and a lot of people can construct a complicated sentence correctly given time. What they have had far less of is the experience of building that sentence while four other people wait, which is the only version of the skill that a meeting actually rewards.
Prague and Brno concentrate the international-facing work — technology, shared services, R&D centres and a substantial startup scene — while the wider country remains heavily industrial, with engineering and automotive supply chains selling across the EU. Both groups need spoken English, but for different conversations: one for client calls and internal collaboration, the other for suppliers, audits and site visits.
Clubs run on Zoom in groups of up to six, so a company can put people from Prague, Brno and a production site in the same session without anyone travelling.
Who books them
Three kinds of organisation, one format.
The club itself is the same in each case — up to six people, sixty minutes, a prepared topic. What changes is the material and who is in the room.
Where the demand comes from
What drives it in the Czech Republic.
Three groups account for most of the Czech demand for spoken English, and they use it in noticeably different ways.
Technology and shared services
Prague and Brno host development centres and business-services operations working in English daily. The written English is usually excellent; the spoken English is what stalls when a call turns genuinely conversational.
Engineering and automotive supply
A large share of Czech industry exports into Germany and the wider EU. Engineers and plant managers need to handle a technical discussion or a customer audit in English, which is a very different skill from reading a specification.
Tourism and hospitality
Prague's hospitality sector deals with English-speaking visitors constantly. Staff need speed and confidence in short exchanges far more than they need grammatical precision.
Schools and universities
Beyond the maturita reading paper
English is the foreign language most Czech students take at maturita, and preparation is usually thorough on the written and reading side. Speaking practice is limited by simple arithmetic: a full class and a fixed lesson length leave each student very little airtime.
A weekly club changes the ratio. Six students in sixty minutes is a completely different experience from thirty students in forty-five, and because nothing is assessed the students who normally avoid speaking are the ones who benefit most.
Czech universities run English-taught programmes and send students abroad on Erasmus. For those cohorts the practice that matters is not academic writing — that is already covered — but the seminar, the presentation and the ordinary social English of living somewhere new.
Scheduling
Working across the time difference.
The Czech Republic is one hour ahead of the UK all year. A club at 17:00 in Prague or Brno is 16:00 for the host, which means late-afternoon slots are straightforward to arrange and stay consistent through the switch to summer time.
Coverage
Cities we work with in the Czech Republic.
We also take enquiries from České Budějovice, Hradec Králové, Pardubice, Zlín, Ostrava, Olomouc and Plzeň and anywhere else in the Czech Republic — because the clubs run online, where an organisation is inside the country makes no difference to the format or the price.
Weekly pricing
The same prices everywhere.
Prices do not change by country. Each club lasts 60 minutes with a maximum of six participants, and includes all preparation, materials and hosting.
| Weekly groups | Speaking time | Price per week |
|---|---|---|
| 1 group | 1 x 60 minutes | £40 |
| 2 groups | 2 x 60 minutes | £70 |
| 3 groups | 3 x 60 minutes | £90 |
| 4 groups | 4 x 60 minutes | £100 |
| Trial speaking club | 1 x 60 minutes | £20 |
Questions
Asked from the Czech Republic.
Do you work with companies outside Prague and Brno?
Yes, and it makes no difference to the club. Everything runs online, so a manufacturer in Zlín or Pardubice gets the same host and the same format as a Prague office.
Our engineers say their English is 'passive'. Is this the right thing for them?
That is close to the ideal starting point. Passive English means the vocabulary and grammar are already there and just need activating, which is what a structured speaking club does. Below roughly A2 there is not yet enough language to sustain a discussion.
Can sessions be held in the morning?
Yes. With only an hour between us, morning slots are workable in both directions — though most Czech companies find that late afternoon protects the session from being cancelled by the working day.
How big is a group?
Six people maximum. Larger groups look better value until you divide the hour by the number of people in it — at ten or twelve, the quieter half stops speaking altogether.
What happens if someone misses a week?
Nothing. Each club is self-contained, there is no homework and nothing to catch up on, so an absence does not leave anyone behind.
Arrange a trial club in the Czech Republic.
Tell us who the group is, roughly what level they are and which weekly times could work. A single 60-minute trial club costs £20.