| At school I sometimes have problems with composition, I make some real howlers, so my marks aren’t great in Czech. My Grandma, who lives with us, speaks Romany almost all the time, so I tend to too when I’m chatting with her. With friends we mix and match, but we’re so used to certain words I wouldn’t say them in anything but Romany.
Sometimes it gets on my nerves that nobody at school appreciates the fact that I speak another language. When someone’s dad is English and they speak English as kids, then it’s like, wicked, cool, and if they don’t speak Czech so well, then everyone forgives them. Isn’t it cute how they don’t speak Czech! But Roma people! Everyone automatically assumes that you have to know Czech perfectly, and if I write something wrongly they look at me like I’m some kind of dunce!
But some words just don’t exist in Czech, or it’s incredibly complicated to express something. For instance čoro in Roma means poor and also … that a person is a bit of a loner. You can’t say that in Czech! | 
