Originally written for the Prague Post but never published. Feedback welcome. More short essay like entries can be found in the Yellow Pages' Trivia section.

Introduction - It is necessary! What these essays are all about.

It's a challenge! How to translate the word 'challenge'

How do you think you're going? The complexities of expressing the word go appropriately in Czech!

		The daily chleba and rohlík Bread may seem simple enough but Czechs are not simple people. All the different words that could be translated into English as bread.
		A piece of koláč! All the words for sweets and pastries important in the Czech culture.

Nobody's perfect! English has an abundance of tenses while Czech only has three. How can you handle the perfect tenses.