He's from the Czech Republic, but YOU have no excuse for speaking like that Mr. Socal lol]
I am almost sure he can much better english than most of us can Czech. You have to face the fact there are lots of us europeans hanging around this forum, because there are not any "pure" M42 forums currently in Europe.
I suppose you can still manage to read our bad English we are writing here. Ofcourse i can write also Finnish, but most likely quite few of you can understand it, perhaps still few Finnish spaking people living in the Great Lake area in Minnesota, Michigan etc.
Most european countries have a great education system what comes to learn foreign lanquages. I can understand (but write poorly) Finnish, Swedish, Norweigan, Danish, Estonian, German, French, Italian and a little bit English. Finnish is part of fenno-hungarian lanquage group, where belongs Estonian, Finnish & Hungarian, so Swedish & other Nordic lanquages are totally foreign lanquages for us.