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Hello and welcome to Radio Prague's Czech-teaching programme, focusing on idioms featuring domestic plants and farm crops. Today we take a closer look at spices and herbs - koření. The Czech expression is related to the word kořen - a root, which suggests that originally, spices were extracted from ground roots of plants.

Welcome to Radio Prague's Czech-teaching programme discussing idioms about farm crops. Today we look at peas, nuts, seeds and the like.

Welcome to Radio Prague's Czech-teaching programme in which we look at idioms about various farm crops and plants. We have already discussed fruit, paying special attention to apples and pears, and today, our topic are fruit trees - ovocné stromy.

Welcome again to our Czech teaching programme introducing Czech idioms featuring various farm crops. As promised, today we will look at the most common types of fruit in this part of the world - apples and pears or jablka a hrusky.

Welcome again to our Czech teaching programme introducing Czech idioms featuring various farm crops. Today we look at fruit.

A new tune has announced a brand new Czech-language course which for the next eight weeks will discuss Czech idioms about everything that grows on a farm: fruit, vegetables, nuts and flowers. Today we start with grain crops.

In today's lesson, we will be talking about probably the least popular members of the animal kingdom - the creepy-crawlies. The insect most frequently represented in Czech idioms is probably the fly. Moucha. To solve two problems at once can be expressed by the expression: Zabit dve mouchy jednou ranou. Literally, "to kill two flies with one blow", or to use the English idiom, to kill two birds with one stone.

Welcome again to Radio Prague's Czech language series exploring wildlife idioms. Today's animal is the fish, which, as everybody knows, is mute. Mlcet jako ryba - to keep silent like a fish, to be mute as a fish.

Hello and welcome to Radio Prague's Czech-teaching programme. For today's lesson we'll have to look up to the sky.

For this week's lesson, we're staying in the forest where, if really lucky, we can hear this sound. If your guess was a motorcycle, you're completely wrong. The correct answer is the bear, the largest beast of prey in Europe.