In hungary we say: “neighbor’s cow must die too”. The longer story is that there was 3 man, one american, one german and one hungarian. All of them had a cow. God killed all the cows, but later he felt bad, so asked the 3 guy, how could he fix this. God asked them all. American man was like: “not a big deal, nothing happened.” The german said: you took one cow, so give me one cow back. The hungarian man said: kill my neighbors cow too, and we will be good!😂 I didn’t know that this is so popular all around the east😂😂
I'm English and it's the same with waiters in the UK as in Slovenia. The waiter will maybe check on you once or twice but otherwise if you want something you will have to attract their attention. That's how we like it. It's annoying if you get a server who keeps bothering you. You NEVER get the bill until you ask for it. We would consider it really rude to have the bill put on the table before asking for it. It's like saying 'OK, you can go now!' I recently went to a restaurant/bar in Liverpool with a few friends and one of them brought an American visitor. Along with getting there on public transport the American really enjoyed the fact we arrived at about two o'clock and didn't leave till after six. He said he'd never in his life sat so long at a restaurant table.
Restaurants are supposed to be welcoming hosts and provide guests with peace, beyond the actual food and drink. In America they have this concept of constant interruption to try to sell them something more or to move them out of the place just as soon as possible so they can resell the table. I can never swallow my last bite before my plate is gone from underneath my mouth. I'm serious, I'm not exaggerating. They literally remove my plate before I finish swallowing the last bite. When I go to dinner with a friend I haven't seen in a while, it is impossible to have an uninterrupted meaningful conversation. The server will come and tell you their name (you're supposed to remember it), and as soon as you start talking they'll come and ask if everything's OK. And come again and again. They've once told me that their supervisor checked on them, to make sure they weren't to every table every seven minutes to ask if they wanted something else. I've never wanted to be rude because I know that it's a cultural difference, but I feel like asking: "hey dude, do you see this friend I have here? Do you really think I came to talk to you all night long? For goodness' sake, leave us in peace. I promise I will call you if I need something else." It's all about the new concept by which the client is at the service of the company and not the other way around. We have to understand that they have a restaurant to make money and we have to be mindful that the waiter has a boss that needs to check that the service... and we have to... and we have to... How about the customer comes to have some peace and we will be at his or her service? I guess that's so 20th century! Thank God in Europe it's still like that.
For me the best waiter is the one who I don't really notice much while having a meal I have interaction with him in the beginning to order something and then I am having conversation with my friends and waiter just does his job - i.e. bring meals, takes empty plates and then I ask him for a bill and that's it I would be quiet annoyed by waiter asking me 5 times "Is everything ok?", "Do you want to order something else?" - I will consider this as him trying to sell me something If waiter notices me fast, comes to my table so I can order, quickly brings my bill after - I value this as a customer the most
Ahoy. I live in an apartment building in the capitol Ljubljana and I have to say i am blessed with wonderful neighbors. We talk to each other when we meet, help each other out and generally have a good relationship. Love your content, keep it up. Pa lep pozdrav
Upravna Enota sounds a little bit like german visit to Bürgeramt (citizens’ office). Good to know that bureaucracy sucks everywhere. 😉 Literally, my wife needed a new german passport (express issue, long story), and the guy in the office was NOT SURE, if that passport would be valid is Spain. AN OFFICIAL GERMAN PASSPORT IN ANOTHER EU COUNTRY.
Love this post! There's always some form of "Stasi"....Most people mind their own business, take care of family, and want a beer now and then. ..Loved the camping "silent' movie, so soothing . And now a very verbal post Thank you for your honesty.
As a Slovenian, I think im obligated to share my opinions/thoughts on the "American waiter vs. Slovenian waiter" thing...FROM MY UNDERSTANDING (and my personal experiances in general) Slovenias tend to go to restaurants for 1 of 2 reasons, either A) for a quick stop before going back on the road, or B) to enjoy some quality food and relax with their friends and/or family...as a Slovenian, every single time i have gone to a restaurant, i have been there for a BARE MINIMUM of 1-2h, Slovenian waiters KNOW that you are there to enjoy the food and have fun with your family/friends and do NOT want to be disturbed while doing so! 99% of Slovenian waiters will NOT check up on your table more than once or twice during your entire meal (which usually consists of a full three course meal btw, dunno if i mentioned that) and thats GOOD! I dont want the waiter to keep interrupting my conversation 😅
I've worked in restaurants here in Slovenia, so I can share my opinion as the person on the other side. I always felt so uncomfortable going to tables as people were eating to check up on them. If my boss told me, then I had to go but I would usually wait until they at least finish eating or they called me to request more drinks or something like that. I think something like that is pretty ingrained in a lot of us lol
Seems like we‘ve lost our dvojina in Ukrainian. We used to say tri jadra but dvi jadri, dvi vidri (dve jedri/vedri in SLO) like a 70 years ago. But now it got simplified to dva vidra, tri vidra and so on. I like languages that keep that “archaic” constructions of old times. Thank you for great video 👍
I got a very severe case of PTSD when you mentioned those two nightmarish words UPRAVNA ENOTA! When I lived in Slovenia in the mid 2000 as a dual citizen, I had to organise my tax file number and health insurance. Upon entering my local upravna enota, I was given completely contrasting information about what I have to do in order to organise my affairs to the point that the notion of gaslighting taken to the next level of lunacy and idiocy! Saying that. I was also informed on numerous occasions that the needless bureaucracy was even worse in neighbouring Croatia, Austria and Italy.
The upravna enota I have to deal with is on the 4th floor, has no elevator and stairs only fit for mountain goats. And as you've pointed out - every appointment is in person. Staff is very friendly though. The matični urad on the other hand still provides a full Yugoslavian experience: The scent of in cubicle brewed burnt turkish coffee prevails, whilest beeing completly ignored by staff and wandering between floors hunting for the correct form to fill ...
Hello. Im Bulgarian i was living in SLO for like 9 years. Because of the COVID i need to return to my country as is it was imposible to find normal job. Its not bad living in SLO so i will be back in 1-2 months. I love the food , the people, the nature and the concerts. As per neigbours, i had very good exp. with them and had problem with only 1 person , which was 70+ , he was cursing nonstop and making lives bad to all people in the village. otherwise no ploblems with anything.
Apart from Western countries where the service is "PROACTIVE", in SLAV countries its considered RUDE or BOTHERSOME when you have a waiter come up to you while you are in the middle of a conversation or laughing or eating and have your mouth full and the waiter asks "Are you doing good??? Everything all right??? Would you like something else???" As a SLAVIC person i HATE THAT SO MUCH... In Slavic culture, at least most Slavic cultures im familiar with, if you the customer want to order something additional or another drink or you want to complain or praise or comment on the service, YOU CALL THE WAITER and THEN you engage in conversation... that way you dont have your mouth full and your conversations are not interrupted... so its a FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE in CULTURAL NORMS and APPROACHES...not Slavs being impolite or whatever...
My dear Slovenian friends i feel with you 😅 in well almost everything. As we say "Neka susjedu crkne krava" let the grass grow 😅 Btw i am fan of European "let me be" stille in Caffes and Restaurants, if somebody constantly asked me if everything is ok it would actually be a bit boring and i would feel like he wants me to go away.
I’m on the fence about waitstaff being attentive vs. non-attentive. On one hand, it’s nice to feel like you’re the only table that matters, but on the other hand (and it’s just that I’m a low-maintenance type of customer at any restaurant) it always seems like the waiter/waitress comes up to me when I have a whole mouthful of food to ask if I need something or if there’s any problem with the quality of food. Since it’s rude to talk with a mouthful, I end up just giving a thumbs-up or if I need something I hold up my index finger to ask them to wait (and quietly deduct 1% of their tip for interrupting me each occurrence) and let them know what I need. Some places I go to have waitstaff that seem to understand this notion so my mileage has varied😂.
When I lived in Germany my neighbors were always my landlord as well. For the most part they were cool. I played in two different bands so my hours were all over the place but they didn’t ever complain when I stumbled in at 3 or 4 in the morning. But there is always a nosy neighbor that just can’t help themselves from getting in your business for one reason or another. I’m in a great place now and haven’t had to deal with this for a long time now. I only play in one band now, much easier and I quit drinking alcohol several years ago. DUI’s are expensive and inconvenient as well. Thanks Barb! Take care 🎸🤓🌎☮️❤️🥓
Me a Bulgarian: "Slovenian drivers take both lanes on corners, that's terrible !" EU Traffic victims per State... "Slovenia looks pretty good, maybe i should live there : D"
My cat that is a indoor/outdoor cat went once in my neighbours garage. Now the neighbours don't live full time at this location, so they come and go. My cat was in the garage when they decided to leave. So they locked the garage and left. I could hear my cat meowing and when i called him he was scratching the door. I called my neighbour and told her that my cat is in their garage. She asked very concerned if the cat would be OK staying there over night as it was night already as they are already getting ready for bed. I told her that he was fed and it wouldn't be a problem, but that i would appreciate if she would come in the morning and let the cat out. She came in the morning, before work, let the cat out and apologized to me for locking her in, then she ran to her car and took a candy bar and gave it to me for compensation :D:D So no not all Neighbours are bad.
After all of this being said, I would never live anywhere else or be anything else but Slovene. 🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮 I ❤️ Slovenia and its people, warts and kinks included.
Wow. Went from not liking cats to not caring about them. Then my brother took in a stray kitten to help cope after our mom died. She had babies and now we have five. Whoever would poison cat food is a demon.
Živjo iz Anaheim... Anaheimi? Nimam pojma. I come from a Slovenian family, but born in the US... I enjoy all of your Slovenian videos, and this one in particular really explains a lot about my grandma's relationship with her nextdoor neighbor. I wish I would've known about the cows when she was still alive...
Thank you for your video. I was thinking of moving to Slovenia from France. But after listening to you, I doubt I will move there. It's just too insufferably disorganised for the elderly.
I'm trying to learn Slovene and man is it a job. Point number 1 is 100% correct. When I worked in a restaurant and again in a bar, the wit staff was required to make five visits to each table. 1, drink order; 2, food order; 3, deliver food; 4, is everything all right; 5, ask about dessert and bill.
Learn Russian, Russia is going to be as important this century as America was in the last. Plus as a bonus you sometimes understand fragments of a sentence in other Slavic languages. Just looking at that Slovene saying I know that a sosed is a neighbor because that's exactly the same word in Russian.
I love...well, that's exaggerated but I really like you and what you have to say . I was born in Slovenija. Anyway, I'm now "OLD" I.e 68. Live in Toronto because life has certain twists and turns that force a person to live where/how one doesn't necessarily want to. Anyway, you are brilliant...for real .You really GET IT and know how to express it Keep doing what you are doing Oh no, you just MENTIONED CATS. My cat is the love of my life so I get what you say Again, born there...went back to university etc. etc. Have just arrived HOME (yeah, whatever) from 3 months in Ljubljana. Anyway, Barbara...I get it and understand what you say Keep doing what you are doing .
i drove 600km from Germany to my home town, quite often being the slowpoke who doesn't know the road or won't overtake a truck because i have time and gas is expensive. no one tailgated me, no one flashed their lights at me, no one honked at me. until i made it through Karavanke tunnel, the visibility was crap and i couldn't quite do 5 over the 80kmh speed limit while slaloming between cones and barriers on a construction site. of course someone felt the need to drive so far up my rear they were almost inside the trunkas if that is gonna help me drive faster(pro tip: i now need to account for your lack of ability to respond to me breaking and will actually drive slower). also, public transport is totally impractical. the last couple of times i tried to use it it would be literally faster to walk and definetly faster to bike. speaking of bikes, each town seems to have a bike rental subscription service that you need a yearly subscription to. nope, you don't get to drive or bike to a town you haven't been to since highschool and rent a bike there, you need to find a tourist information spot(or even an upravna enota) and register for the bike rental service. i also spent 3 months being one of 3 people who took a bus to a town because the first bus to arrive there arrived 30min after the only factory in town started their work hours and they couldn't change the schedule due to the birocracy being too complicated.
I have love for Slovene. Good sense of hummus. My friends Terra-Folk made good parody song for me 😂 ❤❤❤❤❤❤ WJ Back story. I'm Engrish. Met Terra-Folk at Glastonbury Festival. It was so funny!!!! Became a superfan/groupie. When they toured UK again, I followed. Some of the best laughs 😅😂😂😂
I was working as a waitres 5 years and I love it. But I m a natural boren workaholic. I Love everything I do. Even clean, seal clothes, dance, sing, perfor.m... Whatever my Job is. Even cooking... ❤🎉😊❤🎉🎉😊 Showbiznis is my DREAM JOB ❤🎉😊
As a Slovene I have following comments: Regarding the restaurants: when I visited US and went several times outside to have a dinner, the waitress/waiter came to me like 3-4 times asking me if all is good, after I got served with the food. So this was like a very fast dinner :), 15-20 min. And in this time, while eating for like 10 min, I got asked 3-4 times if all is good. On the other hand in Slovenia you get served and most likely no one will ask you inbetween how is the food like. Some they do, but rarely according to my experiences. My verdict: US waitresses/waiters I find much more nicer and very customer oriented. However, they may be a bit irritating with asking too often, while you eat with your mouth full. With Slovenian waitresses/waiter I often think they just want to die in front of me :). No life, no communication, often got a feeling that they think like: "just order a fu... food, pay and get a hell out of here". Especially with younger ones. Of course there are also nice ones. Driving: yeah, if you plan to come to Slovenia and drive here then prepare for a battle :). The drivers here are crazy. No safety distance, blinking with head lights, honking, overtaking in "scissors", ... Outside of a car almost everyone is super friendly, but as soon as they go into a car they become like suicidal maniacs :). And if they are stopped by a police, a lot go like crazy as if to say "why the hell you pulled me over"? "Sir, you were speeding way to much" :). It is hilarious. But other than that I would say it is good to live in Slovenia as well as in the US or any other country. It is more of a personal preference.
No front to Slovenians, but its better to learn Serbian/Croatian! Its a little bit easier & you can find more friends than antifamiliar nationalists...
Everything is very, very true! I live in Ljubljana and I was also born in Ljubljana. Everything is like the American said. Especially about the service. It is not good at all!
OH - I was worried that I might be upset that your driving skills will kill me if I visit. Now I am not worried at all - I live in Poland, which is supposedly even worse. xD
3:33 ...Priznam, da sem grešil, v mislih, besedah in dejanju. Mnogo dobrega opustil in slabega storil. Žal mi je. Zelo mi je žal. Zato prosim sveto Marijo, vse angele in svetnike, in tudi vas, prosite zame, boga nebeškega očeta.
There is different cow saying in Hungary, that says "Dögöljön meg a szomszéd tehene is." - It translates to: "The neighbor's cow too should die." - It means if my life is bad, my neighbor's life should be bad too, or if I have misfortune, my neighbor should be unlucky too.
The bad neighbur problem thing is all about the fact that people in Slovenia are used to living on their own land. Even today it shows that 60+% of Slovenes live in a hause not an apartment so that is one thing and in the past 100 years because of all the moving around of Slovenians by outside forces it forced many of them to live in cities not villages where they were used to having their own land and then they were put in a small apartment in a city, so i think bad neighburs that wish bad on eachother is more of a city thing, i have yet to see a village where neighburs hate eachother and wish bad things for eachother, it doesn't happen. I think that is the reason why in Ljubljana for an example you find so many grumpy neighburs, and the cat story she told is true in cities they do poison your pets if they find them anoyying, my friends dog was poisoned because he barked sometimes and the neighbur killed him. But outside of the city it's way better in terms of animal care, every hause has a cat and/or a dog. The UE (Upravna Enota) tho is shit.
Tradesmen (and any other person you deal with) show up when they personally like you. When they don't like you, or your nationality, or any person who may be or has been associated with you, they just let you down. But, is this unique to Slovenia? (I am a foreigner living in Slovenia.)
Here's a thought. You see a lot of videos from the USA of angry, rude, demanding etc customers behaving badly. I'm sure these happen all over Europe as well but not to the same extent. You'd just get kicked out. Americans do seem to have a greater sense of entitlement in general. I think this is at least in part due to this idea that 'the customer is always right'. The servers behaving like old time servants and grovelling to the customers as though they were superior beings just makes it much worse. Apparently, 'the customer is always right' is quoted out of context. The person who originally said it actually said 'In matters of taste, the customer is always right'. So they just meant you can't tell a customer what to like and what not to like. The ludicrous idea that you're always right about everything just because you're a customer was never intended.
You are still around??? Must have been difficult 5 years.. Starting from scratch?? Will be tough.. Annnnnd back in the mess of the US??? WoW.. You are a brave young lady..
hello Sabrina, I am planning on moving to Slovenia, I would like to interact with you and get more information about Slovenia and the best place to live for a foreigner
Well, what can I say... if the Administrative Unit got on this guy's nerves (about 9 months ago), what would he say about the UE strike that lasted from March 15th until July 5th this year? When we were all literally on the potty without toilet paper and there was nothing you could do. The issuance of documents dragged on like a chicken's intestines, and the cows at the UE happily lounged and chewed their cud. 🤦♀
I'm from.Slovenia. I don't agree with a non punctuality of the Bussiness. I think here is better to come 15 minutes before the meeting, than late or actually never. Real Slovenian is punctual and strickt as you would say for Germans. But it's a fact that many of Slovenian citisans have Balkan roots who are more relaxed and leasure so maybe the author came across someone like that. And yes, we are very jealous of our neighbours. I would like to live somewhere where you don't feel the eyes on your back becouse of the new something you own.
I didn't find it difficult to learn. My parents taught me. 😆 Ja, sej ni b'lo težko se naučit', saj so mi starši in učiteljice u glavni šoli use to naučil, mat kurja. Torej, pravo Slovenščino in tudi ga po domač usekat, vejž d'. (Google won't be able to translate the common slang I used 😊, but she'll understand and presumably be amused)
mogoče sem samo jaz, sam sem našo lukno kako da ti rešijo postopek v upravni enoti na brzino. torej kupiš 100 gramov barkafe pa čokolado milka recimo. pa daš tistemu za pultu max 5 eurov te to stane. pa ti rešijo vse v 10 minutah. čudno se sliši in tudi čudno je videt ko to narediš ampak deluje! 🙃
American here: Yeah, I think we overdo some of the customer service. Unless I'm on a drinking binge, leave me alone for the most part. Just buzz the table once or twice wordlessly. I hate being asked "how is everything?", & the ass-kissing the corporate chains want their servers to do
I would tip a waiter more if they left me alone and it was just easy enough to find someone if I need something. I hate having them constantly popping up on me.
10:00 while he calls it a proactive service we in Slovenia call it nagging. Or at least I do. When I need something I'll call you. If I don't, leave me alone in peace.
Naredi še video o javnem transportu. Recimo kako uporabljati vlak in prispeti "točno" beri z manj kot 1 uro zamude. Še ob 5 zjutraj, ko ni skoraj nikogar na vlaku ima vlak zamudo🥴
Upravna Enota gives me hard times when I was in slovenia they really loves rubber stamp papers and I should be lucky that they accept my qr-coded documents
I just got one question for you. When are you going to put on that squirrel costume again and go hunt for nuts ? It's all your fault that now I have a squirrel fetish. 😂
You are cute, funny and intelligent. Love the channel. I didn't know a damn thing about Slovenia until now. I thought it was another name for Slovakia. I was like, HEY, the Czech republic and Slovenia, yeah, that's it. . lol (Used to be Czechoslovakia back in the 80's) Czech Republic/ Slovakia, not Slovenia, Slovenia is a whole other country. I did know that Trump's wife is Slovenian and that she used to be a hot model when she was younger, which means I erroneously thought she was a Czechoslovakian....derp! lmao. You are a hell of a lot prettier and smarter than she is so based on that logic, Slovenia must be cool. You are like a young L.A. hipster comedian ambassador for Slovakia. HEY! they need to pay you something. Your English is PERFECTION. Trump's wife? Not so good. I don't really think she cares at this point.
Americans are so used to servers bothering them every 5 minutes they can't deal with eating in peace 😂 In the US you're thrown out the moment you finish eating while here you can stay for as long as you like. Definitely better here. In the US you need tips and in the EU they get paid.
American way of table service is perverse, mock, annoying. I prefer old school continental european professional, career waiter with polite stiff upper lip, knowledgeable, but discrete. You came ro dinner to have a nice evening with your friend/spouse/etc, not to watch awkward affection performance of an underpaid server fishing for a higher tip
... Croatians are the most educated drivers in EUROPE... ...Get your info correct Barbara... ...Croatians all have Doctorate degrees in memorizing where the Speed🧐Cameras are...
Whatsup Little Squirrelie. 1st 1. Apparently Dutch is the hardest 2 learn European language, because of the exeptions upon exeptions upon exeptions upon exeptions for every rule. Either how G (or ch) is pronounced in Dutch isn't very common anymore in more in world. Compared 2 like Germanic, Latin, etc languages, the Slovene languages split of pretty late. 2nd. Those type of drivers we have here as well, especially in certain cities. The 3rd. The neigbor thing we have here in some places as well, but when it is a big holiday (be it a country holiday or a city/village holiday or even a street holiday) in city/village than they r all so nice, same when their is a tournament like soccer against a other place than ccomradery happens as well. The 4th 1. Here with service it does depend per place, sometimes you must go 2 the paying thing 1st for ordering, other times you must wait for a seat 1st and mby can order immediately, while others you have 2 wait for seat and wait for ordering, other times you can just sit and automatically get someone, other places you can just sit and have 2 wait for it. Depends a lot on what for type of eating place it is as well and how busy it is at that time. In bars i have always seen so far that it is ordering at the paying thing, but can choose whenever you sit. In some places if get a bottle or a can than can take with you and go outside, any glass stays inside. Apparently in USA you don't have 2 tip, as the waitress/waitresses still have 2 be paid in full if get no tips. It is more common that it happens and can save the owner some money and can invest more in restaurant. Fifth 1. We have a lot of flea markets here, it is pretty common 2 see tradesmen there. The bureaucracy is here a mess as well, but i think it is a mess in most places. It is either 1 big reason why the (government controlled) healthcare is such a terrible thing. As far as i have seen you can't buy a buss ticket online here. You or must buy a buss ticket in buss (what must be with a pincard) or use a chipcard (what can be put on phone, what isn't a trustworthy system) and log in when step in buss and when step out you log out and pay that way. Used 2 able stamp ticket at magazine stores or at the buss, but that is no more. With trains there is a ticket machine where can buy ticket with pincard and credit card (what is mostly in there for ppl from countries that use it) or use the chipcard (what is basically same as with buss, but the check in/out is just before stepping on the railway platform or at beginging of train station). You used 2 be able get a ticket from conductor and wave ppl goodbye when they leave on train --- Stay awesome and positive yourself Little Squirrelie🐿🚋.The cute sound at the end was funny. Seems youtube bugged out when 1st send the comment and 1st didn't send and when i send the comment again it made it 2 X.
"Apparently Dutch is the hardest 2 learn European language" - no linguist would agree with that. Don't know where you heard it but it's absolutely not true.
@@barrysteven5964 I mean for other Germanic language speakers it is a bit easier, it is a bit from where you r from and individual level. It was stated by a few linguists a few years ago and was on average speaking. A TRUE hardest language is a bit hard check, because of were ppl live and individual person. But as i read it a few years ago, it of course could've changed, should've been a bit clearer on it and said i read it a few years ago and probably would've been better if i said it could be 1 of the hardest currently. I did either forget 2 add that Dutch have a lot of dialects, even dialects within dialects group. There is 1 province where the dialect is sometimes seen as its own language. But thanks for correction.
In Ukraine we have a saying: "Neighbor's cow died, small thing, but still nice"😅
In ukraine, I don't think cows dying are the problem
In Slovakia we say "if my goat died, then two goats of my neighbour should die, too." 😅
In hungary we say: “neighbor’s cow must die too”.
The longer story is that there was 3 man, one american, one german and one hungarian. All of them had a cow. God killed all the cows, but later he felt bad, so asked the 3 guy, how could he fix this. God asked them all. American man was like: “not a big deal, nothing happened.”
The german said: you took one cow, so give me one cow back.
The hungarian man said: kill my neighbors cow too, and we will be good!😂 I didn’t know that this is so popular all around the east😂😂
...🥶👻POZDRAV IZ SLOVENIJA I BALKANIJA!🦅🐬
@@lsadin2457jas tud
I'm English and it's the same with waiters in the UK as in Slovenia. The waiter will maybe check on you once or twice but otherwise if you want something you will have to attract their attention. That's how we like it. It's annoying if you get a server who keeps bothering you. You NEVER get the bill until you ask for it. We would consider it really rude to have the bill put on the table before asking for it. It's like saying 'OK, you can go now!'
I recently went to a restaurant/bar in Liverpool with a few friends and one of them brought an American visitor. Along with getting there on public transport the American really enjoyed the fact we arrived at about two o'clock and didn't leave till after six. He said he'd never in his life sat so long at a restaurant table.
It is the same in Bulgaria.
Restaurants are supposed to be welcoming hosts and provide guests with peace, beyond the actual food and drink. In America they have this concept of constant interruption to try to sell them something more or to move them out of the place just as soon as possible so they can resell the table. I can never swallow my last bite before my plate is gone from underneath my mouth. I'm serious, I'm not exaggerating. They literally remove my plate before I finish swallowing the last bite. When I go to dinner with a friend I haven't seen in a while, it is impossible to have an uninterrupted meaningful conversation. The server will come and tell you their name (you're supposed to remember it), and as soon as you start talking they'll come and ask if everything's OK. And come again and again. They've once told me that their supervisor checked on them, to make sure they weren't to every table every seven minutes to ask if they wanted something else. I've never wanted to be rude because I know that it's a cultural difference, but I feel like asking: "hey dude, do you see this friend I have here? Do you really think I came to talk to you all night long? For goodness' sake, leave us in peace. I promise I will call you if I need something else."
It's all about the new concept by which the client is at the service of the company and not the other way around. We have to understand that they have a restaurant to make money and we have to be mindful that the waiter has a boss that needs to check that the service... and we have to... and we have to... How about the customer comes to have some peace and we will be at his or her service? I guess that's so 20th century!
Thank God in Europe it's still like that.
@@tonskimojster What an insightful and interesting post!!
I guess it's the same everywhere in Europe
Same in Denmark, think this is an american thing.
For me the best waiter is the one who I don't really notice much while having a meal
I have interaction with him in the beginning to order something and then I am having conversation with my friends and waiter just does his job - i.e. bring meals, takes empty plates and then I ask him for a bill and that's it
I would be quiet annoyed by waiter asking me 5 times "Is everything ok?", "Do you want to order something else?" - I will consider this as him trying to sell me something
If waiter notices me fast, comes to my table so I can order, quickly brings my bill after - I value this as a customer the most
No vidiš, jaz sem Madžar, ampak sem se naučil slovensko dosti hitro :)
Ahoy. I live in an apartment building in the capitol Ljubljana and I have to say i am blessed with wonderful neighbors. We talk to each other when we meet, help each other out and generally have a good relationship.
Love your content, keep it up. Pa lep pozdrav
Upravna Enota sounds a little bit like german visit to Bürgeramt (citizens’ office). Good to know that bureaucracy sucks everywhere. 😉 Literally, my wife needed a new german passport (express issue, long story), and the guy in the office was NOT SURE, if that passport would be valid is Spain. AN OFFICIAL GERMAN PASSPORT IN ANOTHER EU COUNTRY.
Love this post! There's always some form of "Stasi"....Most people mind their own business, take care of family, and want a beer now and then. ..Loved the camping "silent' movie, so soothing . And now a very verbal post Thank you for your honesty.
As a Slovenian, I think im obligated to share my opinions/thoughts on the "American waiter vs. Slovenian waiter" thing...FROM MY UNDERSTANDING (and my personal experiances in general) Slovenias tend to go to restaurants for 1 of 2 reasons, either A) for a quick stop before going back on the road, or B) to enjoy some quality food and relax with their friends and/or family...as a Slovenian, every single time i have gone to a restaurant, i have been there for a BARE MINIMUM of 1-2h, Slovenian waiters KNOW that you are there to enjoy the food and have fun with your family/friends and do NOT want to be disturbed while doing so! 99% of Slovenian waiters will NOT check up on your table more than once or twice during your entire meal (which usually consists of a full three course meal btw, dunno if i mentioned that) and thats GOOD! I dont want the waiter to keep interrupting my conversation 😅
I've worked in restaurants here in Slovenia, so I can share my opinion as the person on the other side. I always felt so uncomfortable going to tables as people were eating to check up on them. If my boss told me, then I had to go but I would usually wait until they at least finish eating or they called me to request more drinks or something like that. I think something like that is pretty ingrained in a lot of us lol
@@zuzu6864 yep
Seems like we‘ve lost our dvojina in Ukrainian. We used to say tri jadra but dvi jadri, dvi vidri (dve jedri/vedri in SLO) like a 70 years ago. But now it got simplified to dva vidra, tri vidra and so on. I like languages that keep that “archaic” constructions of old times. Thank you for great video 👍
Yay 6am and starting the day with a Barb video. Its going to be a good day
I got a very severe case of PTSD when you mentioned those two nightmarish words UPRAVNA ENOTA! When I lived in Slovenia in the mid 2000 as a dual citizen, I had to organise my tax file number and health insurance. Upon entering my local upravna enota, I was given completely contrasting information about what I have to do in order to organise my affairs to the point that the notion of gaslighting taken to the next level of lunacy and idiocy! Saying that. I was also informed on numerous occasions that the needless bureaucracy was even worse in neighbouring Croatia, Austria and Italy.
The upravna enota I have to deal with is on the 4th floor, has no elevator and stairs only fit for mountain goats. And as you've pointed out - every appointment is in person. Staff is very friendly though.
The matični urad on the other hand still provides a full Yugoslavian experience: The scent of in cubicle brewed burnt turkish coffee prevails, whilest beeing completly ignored by staff and wandering between floors hunting for the correct form to fill ...
Hello. Im Bulgarian i was living in SLO for like 9 years. Because of the COVID i need to return to my country as is it was imposible to find normal job. Its not bad living in SLO so i will be back in 1-2 months. I love the food , the people, the nature and the concerts. As per neigbours, i had very good exp. with them and had problem with only 1 person , which was 70+ , he was cursing nonstop and making lives bad to all people in the village. otherwise no ploblems with anything.
...🥶👻POZDRAV IZ SLOVENIJA I BALKANIJA!🦅🐬
Apart from Western countries where the service is "PROACTIVE", in SLAV countries its considered RUDE or BOTHERSOME when you have a waiter come up to you while you are in the middle of a conversation or laughing or eating and have your mouth full and the waiter asks "Are you doing good??? Everything all right??? Would you like something else???" As a SLAVIC person i HATE THAT SO MUCH... In Slavic culture, at least most Slavic cultures im familiar with, if you the customer want to order something additional or another drink or you want to complain or praise or comment on the service, YOU CALL THE WAITER and THEN you engage in conversation... that way you dont have your mouth full and your conversations are not interrupted... so its a FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE in CULTURAL NORMS and APPROACHES...not Slavs being impolite or whatever...
My dear Slovenian friends i feel with you 😅 in well almost everything.
As we say "Neka susjedu crkne krava" let the grass grow 😅
Btw i am fan of European "let me be" stille in Caffes and Restaurants, if somebody constantly asked me if everything is ok it would actually be a bit boring and i would feel like he wants me to go away.
I’m on the fence about waitstaff being attentive vs. non-attentive. On one hand, it’s nice to feel like you’re the only table that matters, but on the other hand (and it’s just that I’m a low-maintenance type of customer at any restaurant) it always seems like the waiter/waitress comes up to me when I have a whole mouthful of food to ask if I need something or if there’s any problem with the quality of food. Since it’s rude to talk with a mouthful, I end up just giving a thumbs-up or if I need something I hold up my index finger to ask them to wait (and quietly deduct 1% of their tip for interrupting me each occurrence) and let them know what I need. Some places I go to have waitstaff that seem to understand this notion so my mileage has varied😂.
When I lived in Germany my neighbors were always my landlord as well. For the most part they were cool. I played in two different bands so my hours were all over the place but they didn’t ever complain when I stumbled in at 3 or 4 in the morning. But there is always a nosy neighbor that just can’t help themselves from getting in your business for one reason or another. I’m in a great place now and haven’t had to deal with this for a long time now. I only play in one band now, much easier and I quit drinking alcohol several years ago. DUI’s are expensive and inconvenient as well. Thanks Barb! Take care 🎸🤓🌎☮️❤️🥓
Me a Bulgarian:
"Slovenian drivers take both lanes on corners, that's terrible !"
EU Traffic victims per State...
"Slovenia looks pretty good, maybe i should live there : D"
You're awesome and hilarious! (And pretty helpful, too!)
My cat that is a indoor/outdoor cat went once in my neighbours garage. Now the neighbours don't live full time at this location, so they come and go. My cat was in the garage when they decided to leave. So they locked the garage and left. I could hear my cat meowing and when i called him he was scratching the door. I called my neighbour and told her that my cat is in their garage. She asked very concerned if the cat would be OK staying there over night as it was night already as they are already getting ready for bed. I told her that he was fed and it wouldn't be a problem, but that i would appreciate if she would come in the morning and let the cat out. She came in the morning, before work, let the cat out and apologized to me for locking her in, then she ran to her car and took a candy bar and gave it to me for compensation :D:D So no not all Neighbours are bad.
After all of this being said, I would never live anywhere else or be anything else but Slovene. 🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮 I ❤️ Slovenia and its people, warts and kinks included.
It should be obious to everybody now that Barbs is Slovenia's greatest export.
That article might as well have been about Bulgaria. Every part of it (minus the language specifics).
Wow. Went from not liking cats to not caring about them. Then my brother took in a stray kitten to help cope after our mom died. She had babies and now we have five. Whoever would poison cat food is a demon.
do you mean a demoncrat,
As a Croat I can confirm that we just like to get drunk on spirits and wine and sit behind a wheel.
Than by accidend cross Slovenia and end up in Graz withouth knowing how we got there 😅
@@stipe3124😂😂😂
Živjo iz Anaheim... Anaheimi? Nimam pojma. I come from a Slovenian family, but born in the US... I enjoy all of your Slovenian videos, and this one in particular really explains a lot about my grandma's relationship with her nextdoor neighbor. I wish I would've known about the cows when she was still alive...
Thank you for the informative video. 😀 Background music is very irritating!
Thank you for your video. I was thinking of moving to Slovenia from France. But after listening to you, I doubt I will move there. It's just too insufferably disorganised for the elderly.
I'm trying to learn Slovene and man is it a job. Point number 1 is 100% correct. When I worked in a restaurant and again in a bar, the wit staff was required to make five visits to each table. 1, drink order; 2, food order; 3, deliver food; 4, is everything all right; 5, ask about dessert and bill.
Learn Russian, Russia is going to be as important this century as America was in the last. Plus as a bonus you sometimes understand fragments of a sentence in other Slavic languages. Just looking at that Slovene saying I know that a sosed is a neighbor because that's exactly the same word in Russian.
@@statinskill I have a personal reason for learning Slovene, but I do find that I can pick up words here and there in other Slavic languages.
I love...well, that's exaggerated but I really like you and what you have to say .
I was born in Slovenija. Anyway, I'm now "OLD" I.e 68. Live in Toronto because life has certain twists and turns that force a person to live where/how one doesn't necessarily want to.
Anyway, you are brilliant...for real .You really GET IT and know how to express it
Keep doing what you are doing
Oh no, you just MENTIONED CATS. My cat is the love of my life so I get what you say
Again, born there...went back to university etc. etc.
Have just arrived HOME (yeah, whatever) from 3 months in Ljubljana.
Anyway, Barbara...I get it and understand what you say
Keep doing what you are doing .
Se strinjam z vsem. Bravo!
i drove 600km from Germany to my home town, quite often being the slowpoke who doesn't know the road or won't overtake a truck because i have time and gas is expensive. no one tailgated me, no one flashed their lights at me, no one honked at me. until i made it through Karavanke tunnel, the visibility was crap and i couldn't quite do 5 over the 80kmh speed limit while slaloming between cones and barriers on a construction site. of course someone felt the need to drive so far up my rear they were almost inside the trunkas if that is gonna help me drive faster(pro tip: i now need to account for your lack of ability to respond to me breaking and will actually drive slower). also, public transport is totally impractical. the last couple of times i tried to use it it would be literally faster to walk and definetly faster to bike. speaking of bikes, each town seems to have a bike rental subscription service that you need a yearly subscription to. nope, you don't get to drive or bike to a town you haven't been to since highschool and rent a bike there, you need to find a tourist information spot(or even an upravna enota) and register for the bike rental service. i also spent 3 months being one of 3 people who took a bus to a town because the first bus to arrive there arrived 30min after the only factory in town started their work hours and they couldn't change the schedule due to the birocracy being too complicated.
I have love for Slovene. Good sense of hummus. My friends Terra-Folk made good parody song for me 😂 ❤❤❤❤❤❤ WJ
Back story. I'm Engrish. Met Terra-Folk at Glastonbury Festival. It was so funny!!!!
Became a superfan/groupie.
When they toured UK again, I followed. Some of the best laughs 😅😂😂😂
I was working as a waitres 5 years and I love it. But I m a natural boren workaholic. I Love everything I do. Even clean, seal clothes, dance, sing, perfor.m... Whatever my Job is. Even cooking... ❤🎉😊❤🎉🎉😊
Showbiznis is my DREAM JOB ❤🎉😊
As a Slovene I have following comments:
Regarding the restaurants: when I visited US and went several times outside to have a dinner, the waitress/waiter came to me like 3-4 times asking me if all is good, after I got served with the food. So this was like a very fast dinner :), 15-20 min. And in this time, while eating for like 10 min, I got asked 3-4 times if all is good.
On the other hand in Slovenia you get served and most likely no one will ask you inbetween how is the food like. Some they do, but rarely according to my experiences.
My verdict: US waitresses/waiters I find much more nicer and very customer oriented. However, they may be a bit irritating with asking too often, while you eat with your mouth full.
With Slovenian waitresses/waiter I often think they just want to die in front of me :). No life, no communication, often got a feeling that they think like: "just order a fu... food, pay and get a hell out of here". Especially with younger ones. Of course there are also nice ones.
Driving: yeah, if you plan to come to Slovenia and drive here then prepare for a battle :). The drivers here are crazy. No safety distance, blinking with head lights, honking, overtaking in "scissors", ... Outside of a car almost everyone is super friendly, but as soon as they go into a car they become like suicidal maniacs :). And if they are stopped by a police, a lot go like crazy as if to say "why the hell you pulled me over"? "Sir, you were speeding way to much" :). It is hilarious.
But other than that I would say it is good to live in Slovenia as well as in the US or any other country. It is more of a personal preference.
Your hair looks nice Miss
The drivers license for exchange from UK to SLO one was a murder for me and my wife. it took like almost a year for it to be sorted. lol.
Bureaucracies everywhere are a pain, although I guess some are worse than others.
I'm planning my trip to Slovenia now.
Stay in your country, immigrant
looking really pretty today barbs 🥰
Life in Slovenia seems tough!
As Candace Owens would say:
Get a helmet!
I fucking love this and completely agree with all of this XD
Slovenian
Hello from Kobarid
RUclips puts Barb videos in my feed only after they been out for 2 weeks.
Hey Barbara do you actually teach Slovenian as well ? I want to learn the language
No front to Slovenians, but its better to learn Serbian/Croatian! Its a little bit easier & you can find more friends than antifamiliar nationalists...
Bravo!!! Upravna Nota...LOL😂😂😂
Everything is very, very true! I live in Ljubljana and I was also born in Ljubljana. Everything is like the American said. Especially about the service. It is not good at all!
OH - I was worried that I might be upset that your driving skills will kill me if I visit.
Now I am not worried at all - I live in Poland, which is supposedly even worse. xD
3:33 ...Priznam, da sem grešil, v mislih, besedah in dejanju. Mnogo dobrega opustil in slabega storil. Žal mi je. Zelo mi je žal. Zato prosim sveto Marijo, vse angele in svetnike, in tudi vas, prosite zame, boga nebeškega očeta.
...🥶👻POZDRAV IZ SLOVENIJA I BALKANIJA!🦅🐬
There is different cow saying in Hungary, that says "Dögöljön meg a szomszéd tehene is." - It translates to: "The neighbor's cow too should die." - It means if my life is bad, my neighbor's life should be bad too, or if I have misfortune, my neighbor should be unlucky too.
3:16 whoever is talking about road saftey have NEVER been to the USA
Your so funny. 😊
The bad neighbur problem thing is all about the fact that people in Slovenia are used to living on their own land. Even today it shows that 60+% of Slovenes live in a hause not an apartment so that is one thing and in the past 100 years because of all the moving around of Slovenians by outside forces it forced many of them to live in cities not villages where they were used to having their own land and then they were put in a small apartment in a city, so i think bad neighburs that wish bad on eachother is more of a city thing, i have yet to see a village where neighburs hate eachother and wish bad things for eachother, it doesn't happen. I think that is the reason why in Ljubljana for an example you find so many grumpy neighburs, and the cat story she told is true in cities they do poison your pets if they find them anoyying, my friends dog was poisoned because he barked sometimes and the neighbur killed him. But outside of the city it's way better in terms of animal care, every hause has a cat and/or a dog.
The UE (Upravna Enota) tho is shit.
Been many times but going to make the move out there in 2024.
Tradesmen (and any other person you deal with) show up when they personally like you. When they don't like you, or your nationality, or any person who may be or has been associated with you, they just let you down. But, is this unique to Slovenia? (I am a foreigner living in Slovenia.)
Here's a thought. You see a lot of videos from the USA of angry, rude, demanding etc customers behaving badly. I'm sure these happen all over Europe as well but not to the same extent. You'd just get kicked out. Americans do seem to have a greater sense of entitlement in general. I think this is at least in part due to this idea that 'the customer is always right'. The servers behaving like old time servants and grovelling to the customers as though they were superior beings just makes it much worse.
Apparently, 'the customer is always right' is quoted out of context. The person who originally said it actually said 'In matters of taste, the customer is always right'. So they just meant you can't tell a customer what to like and what not to like. The ludicrous idea that you're always right about everything just because you're a customer was never intended.
3:18 Greetings from Bulgaria. Yeah....
HERE in Venezuela all the neighbors are into everybody else business, so living in one apartment it's the hell sometimes 😮
In Hungary we have the same saying as in the beginning.
You are still around??? Must have been difficult 5 years.. Starting from scratch?? Will be tough.. Annnnnd back in the mess of the US??? WoW.. You are a brave young lady..
i am living in slovenia from the seckend i was born
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now i am 13 years old
hello Sabrina, I am planning on moving to Slovenia, I would like to interact with you and get more information about Slovenia and the best place to live for a foreigner
I would take living in Ljubljana over L.A. any day. I'd even take Maribor. Lepa. 🇸🇮❤️
Well, what can I say... if the Administrative Unit got on this guy's nerves (about 9 months ago), what would he say about the UE strike that lasted from March 15th until July 5th this year? When we were all literally on the potty without toilet paper and there was nothing you could do. The issuance of documents dragged on like a chicken's intestines, and the cows at the UE happily lounged and chewed their cud. 🤦♀
I could probably live anywhere in the world but LA that’s not lower Alabama
To pa Jr dobr.
I'm from.Slovenia. I don't agree with a non punctuality of the Bussiness. I think here is better to come 15 minutes before the meeting, than late or actually never. Real Slovenian is punctual and strickt as you would say for Germans. But it's a fact that many of Slovenian citisans have Balkan roots who are more relaxed and leasure so maybe the author came across someone like that. And yes, we are very jealous of our neighbours. I would like to live somewhere where you don't feel the eyes on your back becouse of the new something you own.
we in slovenia and slovenian language have skloni but english does have like 36 tenses but honestly skloni are worse
I’m an American living in America, and I tend to keep completely to myself. But when I have a problem, YOU WILL KNOW IT. 🤣🤣🤣
Holy hell!!!! I thought Bulgarian was hard!
I didn't find it difficult to learn. My parents taught me. 😆
Ja, sej ni b'lo težko se naučit', saj so mi starši in učiteljice u glavni šoli use to naučil, mat kurja. Torej, pravo Slovenščino in tudi ga po domač usekat, vejž d'.
(Google won't be able to translate the common slang I used 😊, but she'll understand and presumably be amused)
The opening statement might as well be fuck them for having a cow.
You need an appointment to apply for an appointment.
En Polica we say..."if a horse he hungryi, iz lik a man he hungryi."
mogoče sem samo jaz, sam sem našo lukno kako da ti rešijo postopek v upravni enoti na brzino. torej kupiš 100 gramov barkafe pa čokolado milka recimo. pa daš tistemu za pultu max 5 eurov te to stane. pa ti rešijo vse v 10 minutah. čudno se sliši in tudi čudno je videt ko to narediš ampak deluje! 🙃
American here: Yeah, I think we overdo some of the customer service. Unless I'm on a drinking binge, leave me alone for the most part. Just buzz the table once or twice wordlessly. I hate being asked "how is everything?", & the ass-kissing the corporate chains want their servers to do
I would tip a waiter more if they left me alone and it was just easy enough to find someone if I need something. I hate having them constantly popping up on me.
10:00 while he calls it a proactive service we in Slovenia call it nagging. Or at least I do. When I need something I'll call you. If I don't, leave me alone in peace.
Naredi še video o javnem transportu. Recimo kako uporabljati vlak in prispeti "točno" beri z manj kot 1 uro zamude. Še ob 5 zjutraj, ko ni skoraj nikogar na vlaku ima vlak zamudo🥴
Interesting pro-tips
UK driver saying Slovenian drivers are bad? Lol. Drove around Slovenia for a week in 2014. Never had an issue.
I just found out you're about to turn 32. Here I thought you were about 20.
Thamalaaahn
Upravna Enota gives me hard times when I was in slovenia they really loves rubber stamp papers and I should be lucky that they accept my qr-coded documents
About serving, serve me and if I want something I will make you know. Meanwhile stay the f away unless I’m a regular. UE ftw.
And not have a fence.
U Kidding? I looooove slovenian grammar.
I just got one question for you. When are you going to put on that squirrel costume again and go hunt for nuts ? It's all your fault that now I have a squirrel fetish. 😂
Slovene language is the finnest weapon of mass destruction.
😆😂
You are cute, funny and intelligent. Love the channel. I didn't know a damn thing about Slovenia until now. I thought it was another name for Slovakia. I was like, HEY, the Czech republic and Slovenia, yeah, that's it. . lol (Used to be Czechoslovakia back in the 80's) Czech Republic/ Slovakia, not Slovenia, Slovenia is a whole other country. I did know that Trump's wife is Slovenian and that she used to be a hot model when she was younger, which means I erroneously thought she was a Czechoslovakian....derp! lmao. You are a hell of a lot prettier and smarter than she is so based on that logic, Slovenia must be cool. You are like a young L.A. hipster comedian ambassador for Slovakia. HEY! they need to pay you something. Your English is PERFECTION. Trump's wife? Not so good. I don't really think she cares at this point.
Americans are so used to servers bothering them every 5 minutes they can't deal with eating in peace 😂 In the US you're thrown out the moment you finish eating while here you can stay for as long as you like. Definitely better here. In the US you need tips and in the EU they get paid.
In 2022 Slovenia had 85 death on the road... So that would be 40.3 per million.
American way of table service is perverse, mock, annoying. I prefer old school continental european professional, career waiter with polite stiff upper lip, knowledgeable, but discrete. You came ro dinner to have a nice evening with your friend/spouse/etc, not to watch awkward affection performance of an underpaid server fishing for a higher tip
This is because American restaurant service is tip-driven. The more they bother you and smile, the bigger the tip they will receive.
You're starting to look like Alanis Morissette. I think it's the hair
... Croatians are the most educated drivers in EUROPE...
...Get your info correct Barbara...
...Croatians all have Doctorate degrees in memorizing where the Speed🧐Cameras are...
A si ti resno rekla Z hčerjo? 😳
I live in slovenia
Whatsup Little Squirrelie.
1st 1.
Apparently Dutch is the hardest 2 learn European language, because of the exeptions upon exeptions upon exeptions upon exeptions for every rule. Either how G (or ch) is pronounced in Dutch isn't very common anymore in more in world.
Compared 2 like Germanic, Latin, etc languages, the Slovene languages split of pretty late.
2nd.
Those type of drivers we have here as well, especially in certain cities.
The 3rd.
The neigbor thing we have here in some places as well, but when it is a big holiday (be it a country holiday or a city/village holiday or even a street holiday) in city/village than they r all so nice, same when their is a tournament like soccer against a other place than ccomradery happens as well.
The 4th 1.
Here with service it does depend per place, sometimes you must go 2 the paying thing 1st for ordering, other times you must wait for a seat 1st and mby can order immediately, while others you have 2 wait for seat and wait for ordering, other times you can just sit and automatically get someone, other places you can just sit and have 2 wait for it. Depends a lot on what for type of eating place it is as well and how busy it is at that time.
In bars i have always seen so far that it is ordering at the paying thing, but can choose whenever you sit. In some places if get a bottle or a can than can take with you and go outside, any glass stays inside.
Apparently in USA you don't have 2 tip, as the waitress/waitresses still have 2 be paid in full if get no tips. It is more common that it happens and can save the owner some money and can invest more in restaurant.
Fifth 1.
We have a lot of flea markets here, it is pretty common 2 see tradesmen there.
The bureaucracy is here a mess as well, but i think it is a mess in most places. It is either 1 big reason why the (government controlled) healthcare is such a terrible thing.
As far as i have seen you can't buy a buss ticket online here. You or must buy a buss ticket in buss (what must be with a pincard) or use a chipcard (what can be put on phone, what isn't a trustworthy system) and log in when step in buss and when step out you log out and pay that way. Used 2 able stamp ticket at magazine stores or at the buss, but that is no more.
With trains there is a ticket machine where can buy ticket with pincard and credit card (what is mostly in there for ppl from countries that use it) or use the chipcard (what is basically same as with buss, but the check in/out is just before stepping on the railway platform or at beginging of train station). You used 2 be able get a ticket from conductor and wave ppl goodbye when they leave on train
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Stay awesome and positive yourself Little Squirrelie🐿🚋.The cute sound at the end was funny.
Seems youtube bugged out when 1st send the comment and 1st didn't send and when i send the comment again it made it 2 X.
"Apparently Dutch is the hardest 2 learn European language" - no linguist would agree with that. Don't know where you heard it but it's absolutely not true.
@@barrysteven5964 I mean for other Germanic language speakers it is a bit easier, it is a bit from where you r from and individual level. It was stated by a few linguists a few years ago and was on average speaking. A TRUE hardest language is a bit hard check, because of were ppl live and individual person.
But as i read it a few years ago, it of course could've changed, should've been a bit clearer on it and said i read it a few years ago and probably would've been better if i said it could be 1 of the hardest currently.
I did either forget 2 add that Dutch have a lot of dialects, even dialects within dialects group. There is 1 province where the dialect is sometimes seen as its own language.
But thanks for correction.
Slovenia sounds a lot like Portugal. :)
So greed and envy are ingrained in Slovenian culture, and the citizens are busybodies. Got it.