Slovakia is a little happy country which has borders to Poland,
Hungary, Czech Republic, Austria and Ukraine. Among these, the most
familiar country to people of Slovakia is Czech Republic, since some
time ago, these both countries were one country under one banner.
However, due to past inconveniences these two countries had to
separate. But they do not hold grudges against each other in anyway,
even that, both their people are quite friendly to each other. Also
that, to Polish, which they have their longest border to, they are
quite friendly, they had numerous cultural relationship with Poland in
history and they tend not to forget that. Although, i am not quite
sure if it is because they do not tend to forget something happened in
their past or something recent, they do not like English speaking
people. Or to put it bluntly, no other.
How to understand someone speaking English, if they are speaking with
not obvious foreign accent, that if they are English or from any other
part of the world? English grew to be the international language of
the world, even that in passports of European Union, apart from the
language of the country which the passport is given by, there is
English used, as second language. And England is not even in the
European Union officially! Therefore, England does not accept visas
given by European Countries, or any European citizen without a visa!
Which takes us to the fact that, English is really the international
language of our time. When was in Slovakia, i had a few problems about
English speaking. Of course not everyone has a good heart so i was probably
in wrong place in wrong time. At the end Slovakians were really polite
and nice to me Apart from this, Slovakia is well known by its endless plains
and untouched forests which adds intense natural beauty to the country.
In the countryside, you do not find many individual houses, however
there are really numerous towns, which are so little but so
technological. Things like small towns with no electricity, no
plumbing is non-existent in Slovakia. There are even quite well
internet service in most of those small towns, where only around a
thousand people live, maybe less. There are pubs, discos, markets, and
many sort of entertaining places, and possible activities. Like
offroad motorbikes for rent, ski resorts. Just the annoying thing is
that, after 6 p.m. most stores and places are closed in there. Though,
pubs get opened, and there are people having fun all around. It is
almost the same in their capital Bratislava too! Pubs put chairs and
desks for people to sit on the roads, since there are not much cars
around, it doesn't prove to be much of a problem. So no one does care
if you are speaking English or not, after 18:00 If you are planning to
visit Slovakia to have fun, i would say, do not hesitate!