| I don’t have a problem with languages, I like them. I know English and Spanish and I’m learning German. I don’t think of Czech as a foreign language, it’s so close to Slovak. And in Slovakia I used to watch Czech television a lot or read Czech magazines, and so studying in Czech was not so difficult for me, I got into it really quickly. Nowadays nobody recognises that I’m not Czech. It seems to me that it doesn’t matter what I speak, because Slovak is also easy to understand.
But at home we speak Slovak and almost nobody realises it at school. Czech is simply my second language. At the same time I have no problem speaking Czech with one person and answering another in Slovak, although the same is not the case with writing, where I make a lot of mistakes. Maybe that’s why I’m getting such a lot of zeros in dictation. Sometimes I’m not really sure when to speak Czech and when Slovak. My parents don’t want me to forget Slovak, whereas in school it’s better to speak Czech – but then my Slovak mates get at me for playing at being a Czech, and girls like Slovak so I’ve more of a chance if I speak it...  | 
