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John Transue's rejection letter to teach English in Czechoslovakia for the 1991-1992 school year.

John Transue was teaching English in Czechoslovakia and wanted to apply for graduate school. Transue used this dictionary to attempt to ask shopkeepers for large envelopes in order to mail his graduate application. When he would ask clerks for…

While John Transue was teaching English in Czechoslovakia, he used this Czech money as daily tender. Transue would go to Zakopane, Poland on the weekends for a short getaway, and saved the Polish bills as souvenirs.

John Transue was in Czechoslovakia to teach English. He went to teach adults, but instead taught kindergarten. The children were taught to write with fountain pens that could draw the ink up and release it. The kindergartners would use the pens to…

A friend was teaching John Transue and his fiance Slovack, and this was the language book that they used.