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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.

The Czech Republic is a bureaucratic superpower, someone has once said. Czech bureaucracy - byrokracie - indeed drives everybody mad and foreign residents are usually shocked when they first encounter it. Whatever you want to do there are always identity cards, personal numbers, permits and licenses, rules, regulations and complicated forms dampening your spirits. Anyone who has ever ventured into a Czech office with some innocent query will understand where the writer Franz Kafka found inspiration for his novels...

Today we'll take a break from the alphabet for a change and pay special attention at one very important little word - one you can't get by without.

It's time for the letter H in the ABC of Czech and this week Pavla Horakova will explain all the vocabulary concerning home, sweet home.

This week Pavla Horakova reaches the letter G in Radio Prague's Czech language series and tells you all you need to know about Czech greetings

The letter for this week is F and the topic: "foreign influences". No language exists on its own and Czech, just like other languages, has been exposed to various influences over the centuries from both the country's neighbours and languages more distant or even extinct.

Hello and welcome again to our weekly Czech language series, the ABC of Czech in which we follow the alphabet. Today I'm joined by Vladimir Tax and it's time for the letter E, which in our series stands for "embassy" and everything connected with that topic.