After more than a year and a half, the main language we talk is still English. And although it is no problem in most of the situations, there are many times when it would be so useful to be at least able to communicate in the other language...The problem is, that we are both far away from communicating on a comfortable level in either German or Czech, so we always end up speaking English. So many people say that learning Czech is not easy (and Jan would most probably agree as well). Starting with pronunciation, ending with grammar. Is it really true? How long is it necessary to learn Czech to be able to communicate in it and how long to master it? And how different is Czech from German? First, a bit of reality. First words which Jan tried to say in Czech were "volské oko" (sunny side up egg, fried egg) one and a half year ago. When he tried to tell it to Google, Google voice recognition thought that he said: "britská kočka" (British cat). So from that ...