8 Interesting Facts about Czech

4. … because Czech doesn’t do vowels

These tongue twisters exist because Czech isn’t overly fussed with the use of vowels. You can see that clearly in another famous tongue twister: Strč prst skrz krk. Funnily enough, that sentence means “stick your finger through your throat”, which would probably be something that would help you with the pronunciation. All of that is because, in Czech, consonants can act as vowels, although it does mean quite the challenge for second-language learners.