I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.
Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.
Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.
I used to spend summers in the Czech Republic with my grandmother. I'd watch Czech cartoons.
I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.
My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange.
I've been a loner all my life, so it didn't bother me that Hungarian was my first language and that I had to learn English. I had a pretty heavy accent in junior high school and would say things like 'wolume control' instead of 'volume control.'
I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.
I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.