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Hello and welcome to the ABC of Czech in which we unveil the mysteries of the Czech language. Today's letter is Q for questions. Yes, we're going to try and answer some of the questions and queries which you, the listeners, have sent in.

We've got as far as the letter P in the alphabet, which brings us to the topic of politics

The letter for today is O and the topic o'clock, or things to do with time.

Hello and welcome again to our regular Czech language programme, the ABC of Czech. It's time now for the letter "N" which stands for names. The typical Czech has two names - a first name and surname. Those who have been baptised have one or more middle names but very few people ever use them.

In recent editions we burdened you with a huge amount of new vocabulary, so today we can take a break and look at something more entertaining than new words. It's the bad translations into English which are still plentiful in the Czech Republic, especially in the tourist and restaurant business.

Hello and welcome to the ABC of Czech. We've reached M in the alphabet and our topic today is "money". Although the Czech Republic plans to start using the single European currency in a few years' time, the country still uses its national currency the crown or "koruna".

Today's episode is a very warm and romantic one. We have reached the letter L, which in our series can't mean anything else but love. Romantic love, motherly love, charity - all that is láska in Czech.

K is our letter for today and the topic is kitchen... or cuisine, if you like, because the Czechs have just one word for both kitchen and cuisine - kuchynì.

We are back with the alphabet and the letter J. "J" in our series stands for things related to the subject of "jobs".

Last time we talked about institutions and bureaucracy in the Czech Republic. Before we move on to the next letter in the alphabet, let's stop to talk about another typical Czech phenomenon, not so far from the topic of bureaucracy. Titles.