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Czechia supports 15 schools that provide Czech language education abroad. We talk with women educators women who help keep their language and cultural heritage alive.

A region that got rich on coal and steel and today attracts visitors to its industrial monuments and mountains. It is also the birthplace of Sigmund Freud and Leoš Janáček.

Born and raised in Czechoslovakia, Ivan Kytka embarked on his journalistic journey already as a little boy in 1968, after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Many visitors of Czechia make a mistake: they stay in Prague and do not see any other city. This episode three reasons of Czechast gives three reasons why visit Brno.

Don Sparling: Story of how a Canadian came to communist Czechoslovakia, fell in love and made Brno his home. 

Tomáš Masaryk, the founder and first president of Czechoslovakia, had an American wife. In this episode you can hear him speaking in English to and about Americans.

People in Czechia had traditionally good relationships with the Jewish community, says Irena Kalhousová Director of the Herzl Center for Israeli Studies in Prague.

Vincenz Priessnitz, the founder of modern hydrotherapy, was born in the Olomouc Region. He founded a spa that successfully applies his curative methods to this day.

According to the US Census Bureau, nearly one and a half million Americans identified themselves as having Czech roots or ancestry in 2020.

Growing up in a bilingual family can be enriching. But there are challenges, too.