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Hello and welcome to Czech by Numbers, Radio Prague's own Czech language series which explores Czech numbers and numerals and their use in idioms. Today we'll be looking at the number three - tri. As you can hear, the common Indo-European origin of the English and Czech here is quite obvious.

Welcome to Radio Prague's own Czech language series - Czech by Numbers which explores Czech numbers, numerals and their derivations in different contexts, as well as idioms and collocations. Today's being the second lesson, we'll be looking at number two - dva.

Welcome to Radio Prague's new Czech language series - "Czech by Numbers". We are going to take the title quite literally. In the coming weeks we'll be exploring Czech numbers, numerals and their derivations in different contexts, as well as idioms and collocations.

Hello and welcome to Radio Prague's special Czech-language series focusing on idioms about wild-growing plants. We've already done trees and their parts, and today we won't go far from that topic - we'll be looking at the words "wood" and "forest" in Czech phrases and idioms.

Welcome once again to Radio Prague's Czech teaching programme. Last week, we went through some Czech idioms about trees and today we'll take a look at individual parts of the tree, and what they stand for in popular expressions.

Welcome to another episode in our short series on wild flora idioms which closes the whole nature cycle. Today we'll focus on trees - stromy. We have already talked about fruit trees and their place in the Czech language but now it's time to look at some other trees. Generally speaking, trees in the language stand for good qualities: strength, height and firmness. The expressions usually refer to young men.

Hello and welcome to the last short series on Czech idioms about nature. We are closing the cycle with a string of lessons on wild flora. And today we start with grass - trava. A word which is very similar in all Slavonic languages.

Welcome to Radio Prague's Czech teaching programme exploring idioms about farm crops and domestic plants. Today's is the last episode, and as of next week we'll be looking at wild flora. In today's lesson we focus on garden flowers and pot plants.

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.