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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.

Yes, we are back with a brand new lesson about Czech wild animal idioms. And we start off with a little quiz: Can you guess which animal makes this noise?

Hello and welcome to a fresh Czech language lesson, explaining Czech idioms featuring wild animals. Now, can you guess which animal this is?

Hello and welcome to another episode of our new Czech-teaching series explaining Czech idioms with wild animals. Today we look at a much-feared beast of prey - the wolf. The Czech word vlk is of the same Indo-European origin as the English or German term.

A new tune has announced a new short sequence in Radio Prague's language series examining Czech countryside idioms. Last time we finished with farm animals and now we proceed onto animals living in the wilderness.