Czech, the official language of the Czech Republic (a member of the European Union since 2004), is one of the EU's official languages and the 2012 Eurobarometer survey found that Czech was the foreign language most often used in Slovakia. Economist Jonathan van Parys collected data on language knowledge in Europe for the 2012 European Day of Languages. The five countries with the greatest use of Czech were the Czech Republic (98.77 percent), Slovakia (24.86 percent), Portugal (1.93 percent), Poland (0.98 percent) and Germany (0.47 percent). COUNT 5
QSN1 What is the official language of the Czech republic? ANS1 Czech QSN2 How long has the Czech Republic been a member of the European Union? ANS2 since 2004 QSN3 What distinction does Czech have in Slovakia? ANS3 foreign language most often used QSN4 Who collected data on language knowledge in Europe for the 2012 European Day of Languages? ANS4 Jonathan van Parys QSN5 Of the five countries with the greatest use of Czech, which country had the lowest percent of use? ANS5 Germany