Behind the Chiquita Sticker

Hi! I'm Anna aka language nerd and firm believer that grammar drills should never kill your vibe.

I grew up in a small town in northern Bohemia, but since then I’ve swapped borders, accents, and matcha orders from Paris to Barcelona to Prague. I’ve studied languages, lived them, worked with them (as a translator, interpreter, and teacher), and maybe most importantly — I’ve learned them without textbooks. No soul-sucking fill-in-the-blanks. Just curiosity, messy notes, and a lot of “wait, what’s the word for that?”

I speak Czech, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese — not perfectly, but enough to know how lonely and funny and thrilling the process can be. I made Painless Czech because I believe you don’t need a thick grammar book to sound like a real person. You need real input, good habits, and tiny wins that add up.

When I’m not nerding out over verb prefixes, you’ll find me running, doing yoga, cooking something vaguely Mediterranean, or hunting down the best chocolate in town (tips welcome).

Let’s make your Czech journey weird, wonderful and totally doable.