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Ahoj and welcome back to ABC of Czech! The topic of this week's programme is Czech roads, traffic accidents, and most importantly, seat belts.

After Euro 2004 and the Czech Republic's medal finish, you may be wondering how Czechs talk about football. Today in ABC of Czech we're looking at the basics of football in Czech. To start with Czechs play fotbal, and as you can see, Czech fotbal only has one 'o' and one 'l'.

In this week's edition of ABC of Czech we are talking about traveling - cestování, or to be more exact hitting the highway. But before we hit the road, we will find out what Czechs hit when they set out for a trip.

Ahoj and welcome to ABC of Czech, Radio Prague's special language programme. In today's programme we're looking at one of the Czech Republic's great specialties - spas - lázne. People come from all over to enjoy the spa services - lázenství, such as massages but mostly to drink the healing water - voda, which comes from the spa's spring - pramen. There are different kinds of springs, minerální pramen - as you might guess mineral spring and termální pramen - thermal spring.

Ahoj! Hello and welcome to this week's ABC of Czech. Today we're continuing our study of Czech shoes - ceske boty paying close attention to which shoes are worn in which weather!

Ahoj and welcome to ABC of Czech. In today's programme, we're taking up the Czech equivalent of the English expression: 'I know it like the back of my hand' which in Czech is: znám to jako své boty. This expression tranlastes literally as 'I know it like my own shoes'. So on the theme of knowing shoes, let's get to some Czech shoes - ceske boty.

Ahoj and welcome to ABC of Czech. In today's programme we're be talking to Pavel a student who attended the Summer School for Compatriots in Dobruska. He'll share with us a funny story about learning and speaking Czech in the pub - hospoda.

Ahoj and welcome to the first in a new series of ABC of Czech. I am Heather Bowne and over the next few months, I'll be your guide through some of the intricacies and surprises of the Czech language.

Czechs are going for gold in Athens! Cesi bojuji o zlato! Ahoj and welcome to a special Olympic edition of ABC of Czech. In today's programme we'll learn how to talk about the Olympics - olympiada in Czech, which as you can see is written with a lower-case 'o.'