Warm welcome and enjoy it here!
Yes, I also was completely lost when I found The Hound of the Baskervilles ...at the age of 11? Don´t know, but it remains my favourite Doyle´s story.

Welcome from a compatriot!
(Not only Mrs. Wenceslas from Bohemia, errr ...Czech republic here!)

Just an easy-reading by Peter James, I cannot concentrate myself on anything else due to the hot weather.

I hope I attracted the attention of my niece, she watched S1 and I strongly recommended her S2 hoping she´ll share her impressions with me. She may become hooked on.. 

Swanpride wrote:

Ha, I found another one I have never seen mentioned before: At the beginning of the Thor bridge case, Watson mentiones a couple of cases which most likely will never be cleared up. one of them is the case of "James Fillamore, who stepped into his house to fetch an umbrella and was never seen again" - that is also the name of the second victim in ASiP, the teen who goes back for his umbrella.

 
Brilliant, Swanpride!

Mary Me wrote:

I must say, the reason that I can interact with people in english, isn't the school.
The reason is me being active in english speaking forums and me watching movies and interviews in english.
Our english class is very useless. I mean, teacher asks a question and most of the answers begin with "Ja, also ich denke..." And our teacher is not very consistent when it comes to vocabulary query.
Example?
Teacher: "English word for Abtreibung?" (abortion)
Student: "To make the baby away?"
Teacher: "Right. Next."
I sat there and was like Da faq?

Well, this sounds like a nightmare of a teacher, doesn´t it ? I myself am a language teacher and I can´t figure out what reasons a collegue can have for such an approach.
 

Intruguing topic, thanks Mnemosyne.
My username is very easy to guess. But the dog wasn´t mine. Some years ago, I took care of a wolfhound. Because he stays in my heart, (been dead for two years now), I decided to bring it up as a username, partly because of the "hound" part of the word as well. I just thought it would be nice to put together a memory with a Sherlock related notion.
My avatar is one of my favourite places in the mountains where I like to hike.
My signature is a quotation of my favourite author, Michel Houellebecq.

I caught cold when I was around 12 years old and had nothing to read except some books I had read many times before.  I made a thourough search in a bookcase and found The Hound of The Baskervilles. And that was it. I have SH periods in my life, years when I rewatch Jeremy Brett, reread the canon  and years when I don´t like to. Still it remains one of my favourite crime stories writers.

And Merry Christmas from me as well, I wish you joy and hapinness! Enjoy the wonder-ful period...

Hello! You can introduce yourself in the introduction thread, if you would like to. 
The Czech elements in the BBC series are an obvious nod to the canon since there are mentioned at least twice in the original stories. At first, the Scandal in Bohemia, quite obviously, although I am afraid ACD got it wrong, all that stuff about a Czech king- quite ridiculous for the period. Then there is another story mentioning the capital Prague being a source of a drug for a respectable professor.
Wenceslas is indeed a typical Czech first name, Vaclav. ¨
As far as the pronunciation is concerned, I didn´t remember any wrong features, I have to listen for it to capture!