CZECH IS EASY - when you find a patient teacher.
"Czech is the Rolls Royce of the Slavonic Languages" (Terje B. Englund)

I discovered this today on a Czech teacher's website and it made me wonder what the motivation for such a statement might be. The full quote goes like this:

Czech is the Rolls Royce of the Slavonic languages, and a star player in the Indo-European linguistic league. Czech is so rich, precise and, unfortunately, also complicated that a foreigner trying to learn the language may be driven to suicide. Either because he or she never manages to learn it, or because of the utter depression that follows when the foreigner realizes how primitive his or her own mother tongue is. (Full text on Expats.cz)

Although, I completely disagree with the assertion that Czech is a difficult language, the full article is worth reading because it provides an interesting overview of the highlights of Czech's history.

Let me conclude with a counterquote of my own:

Czech is not a difficult language. It is just difficult to learn it.