I have absolutely nothing against the Slovenian language, and I absolutely love the country, and pretty much every single Slovenian person that I've met has been very nice and friendly. But I cannot stand having to listen to it anymore. After a while it really does get on your nerves when two or three men are standing in your room, speaking loudly in Slovene and you have little to no chance of ever finding out what they are talking about. It makes it hard to focus on what you're doing, and if I have nothing to do it makes it hard to just go on facebook, because I don't want them to see that.
And I'm sick of everything on my computer being in Slovene, and of all the documents that come my way being in Slovene, which leads me to never know what it's regarding, thus I never know who to give it to. And today I was trying to access my hotmail, but all of a sudden it had turned into Slovene and some message came up that I couldn't understand and couldn't get rid of either. After som random clicking around I finally managed to change it back into Swedish, but it really shouldn't have to be so damn hard.
And every time they call from the ministry in Slovenia, I pick up the phone and say Slovenian Embassy. And yet they release this flood of words in Slovene that can't be stopped, and despite my efforts to interupt them and ask if they speak English, they just keep going. When they've finally finished talking, I ask them if they speak English, they sound slightly annoyed and repeat what they just said, but in English. And they never enunciate very well, I always have the hardest time picking up their names, which causes me a great deal of distress at the office when people get mad at me for not being able to say exactly who's calling them.
Another person who definitely didn't enunciate was the woman who called a little while ago. She sounded Finnish, but I'm pretty sure that she was using Swedish words. She talked for about 3 minutes and I didn't understand a thing. I did hear something about opening hours, and the word embassy, so I think she might be coming over. I do wonder how I'll manage to fend her off. Hopefully she understands Swedish better than she speaks it.
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