* Czechs have historically supported small and underground/samizdat publishing, even when threatened with (and subjected to) imprisonment and/or exile.
* Approximately 30% of Czechs are now proficient in English.
* Recent legislation mandates English-language learning in all Czech public schools.
* According to the Czech Interior Ministry, a total of 436,116 foreigners lived in the country as of October 2009, the largest groups being:
Ukrainian (132,481) Slovak (75,210) Vietnamese (61,102) Russian (29,976) Polish (19,790) German (14,156) Moldovan (10,315) Bulgarian (6,346) Mongolian (5,924) American (5,803) Chinese (5,314) British (4,461) Belarusian (4,441) Serbian (4,098) Romanian (4,021) Kazakh (3,896) Austrian (3,114) Italian (2,580) Dutch (2,553) French (2,356) Croatian (2,351) Bosnian (2,240) Armenian (2,021) Uzbek (1,969) Macedonian (1,787) Japanese (1,581)
