Czech may be more closely related to English than you think.
Czech can often seem impossibly daunting and very foreign, but there are many connections we can make between Czech and English, as well as other European languages for that matter. The more of these connections we know, the more manageable this language seems.
Vědět (to know)
Vědět (to know) is connected both to vidět (to see) in Czech and ‘wit’ in English meaning ‘intellectual ability’ and ‘to know’; the latter verb form is now largely obsolete.