How Hard Is It to Learn Czech?

Czech is Closely Related to Other Central European Languages

Czech belongs to the West Slavic language group, together with Slovak and Polish. As highlighted in this post, the three languages share a lot of characteristics with each other. It is fair to say, that in most part they appear more to be the different dialects of a single language that three distinct ones – speakers from the areas close to shared borders will have less trouble understanding each other that those coming from far away geographic areas.