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Winter finished last Sunday, but there’s still a lot of snow in my region. On the Praděd mountain, only 28 km from the town, where I work, there’s still a layer of snow 1,80 m high! When I got up on Monday, the temperature was 11 degrees Celsius below freezing! It’s surprising because I don’t live on the pole.
But this morning it was much warmer, so I’m wearing low shoes and hope, I’ll be able to hide my winter coat next week.
Winter is over and spring is welcomed.

I don’t have enough time to visit language courses, so I try to learn foreign languages all by myself.
I started learning German a few years after I had seriously started learning English. At first I thought German was much more difficult to learn than English. I wasn’t able to remember new German words, to understand German grammar and my spoken German was of a zero level. I didn’t feel any progress.
Last year I bought an educational programme on CD ROM called Sprachkurs Deutsch. It consists of 168 German lessons. I haven’t finished too many of them so far, but I have to say that I like a German grammar now. The Sprachkurs Deutsch helps me not only to understand German grammar, but to improve my vocabulary and to make my spoken German better, too.
I believe that with a continuous practice I’ll be able to speak German quite well.
That’s the reason that I have changed my former idea. Nowadays I think that German is easier to learn than English, because English seems to me as difficult as before, but German less difficult.
I’d like to know how other people, who learned both English and German sooner, look at these two languages and which of them they consider more difficult to learn and why.

Last week I spent three days in the Justice Academy. A meeting of prosecutors and judges from the whole country took place there. We discussed problems connected with investigation and punishing of car accident crimes. Experts from the forensic engineering institute, encluding the head of it, were our lecturers.
Car accident criminality is a special one, because every driver can commit a crime while driving a car. It’s quite easy. Every driver have to drive a car by the rules of road traffic. For example a driver, who drives a car along the side road, have to give a priority to a driver, who drives a car along the main road. If he doesn’t do this in a crossroad a car accident will happen and such driver is responsible for causing it. If someone is injured during a car accident, the offender may be accused and later sentenced.
During our meeting we especially talked over collisions between cars and pedestrians. It’s a hard work to investigate such car accidents and every time is necessary to have an expert opinion.
This meeting was useful for me a lot, because as a prosecutor, I supervize car accidents investigation. Every year I send at least 70 drivers in front of the court for crimes committed by them on the roads. Around 50 other drivers could be sent there too, but in their cases I make use of a special part of our Criminal Proceeding Code and I conditionaly stop their cases.
I usually go to the Justice Academy two or three times a year. It’s a pleasant break in my ordinary work and it’s a rare occasion to meet colleagues from other officies there. Some of them are my friends or fellow students.
And one thing is really funny there. The Justice Academy is situated in the same building as the Educational centre of the prison guard. The building itself is just next to the prison, so some prisoners from this prison, wearing typical prison uniforms, come to the Justice Academy to do cleaning works. They can move inside the building completely freely. They aren’t guarded there. So during our breaks between lectures, prosecutors and judges relaxed in the corridor, which was being cleaned by prisoners at the same time. These prisoners knew who, we were, so some of could meet there a prosecutor who had sent them in front of the court or a judge, who had sent them to prison.

I hoped it would going to snow with the temperatures deep below freezing during Christmas this year, but the situation has been quite different so far. On Christmas Eve there was some rain with the temperature around 5 degrees Celsius. Today on Christmas Day it’s the same, it’s cloudy and rather warm, around 8 degrees Celsius. I’m afraid that even in Boxing day there wan’t be any change, because the weather forecast isn’t optimistic. The weather like this isn’t healthy, flu and tonsilitis are threatening all the time.
In spite of this, the Christmas Eve was excellent, we had a wonderful time in our flat. I decorated the christmas tree and was looking forward to my relatives who came around the noon. We spent the whole day like usual, everything was very nice and pleasant. Father Christmas was generous with his surprising presents.
This morning we’ve visited Laura’s flat, where we’re going to spend the whole day. On the Boxing Day our christmas celebration will also continue and I’m going to relax a bit then, because I don’t have to go to work on Monday.
I wonder if the New Year’s Eve and the New Year’s Day will be white and on ice.

Every Tuesday evening I watch TV. There’s a programme called “Na plovárně”, which is hosted by Marek Eben.
Marek Eben, who belong among my favourite presenters, invites one famous person in every programme, sometimes from the Czech republic, sometimes from abroad and they talk. When a guest comes from abroad, they talk in English and the programme is binary broadcasted, so I can choose a version in which the interview is translated in Czech language simultaneously or I can choose a version which is broadcasted in Enlisch without translation.
I always choose a version which isn’t translated, so I have to say that Marek Eben can understand Englisch very well and that he speaks English really fluently.
He has visited lots of famous people from abroad so far, for example Garry Kasparov, who is a world champion in chess and who comes from Russia and lives in the USA. He talked about his life in Russia and in the USA.
Another famous sportsman was Rainhold Messner, the best climber in the world, who managed to reach every peak in Himalaya, which is higher then 8 000 m. He managed it without oxygen. Messner comes from Germany, but he also travels around the world a lot. His narration was very interesting.
Marek Eben also invited Franco Nero, an excellent Italien actor, who starred in many famous movies. He also spends only a part of a year in Italy and because he travels a lot.
I was very pleased that Marek Eben invited Jacqueline Bisset a French actor, who is well known from the film “The Deep” and others. She is my favourite actor. She is sixty now, but she is really pretty in spite of the fact that her look isn’t improved with the help of plaastic surgery. She was very kind and heartfull, she talked about his life and interests. I was glad I managed to see her in this programme.
While talking with his guests, Marek Eben is always very attentive and kind, he smiles all the time.
One of his guests was unusual. It was an old man, Im not able to guess his age, but I’d say he is about eighty. He is still a strong man. He was born in our country, but he left the Czechoslovakia when he was young. He started to live in France, where he entered the Foreign league. He was successful there, so he was sent somewhere in the Far East to fight and he survived. He spoke in Czech in this programme. He spoke both about his private life and about his life as a soldier. Marek Eben asked him how many people he had killed and he answered indefinitely. I didn’t like this man. If I was a host I wouldn’t invite him to the programme like this.
I’m looking forwad to seeing another guest from abroad who will accept invitation to this programme. Watching this program is a good way to improve my English too.