Cycling in slavdom (yes, magyardom too)

ponglish will be enough

>>53101756
I've been to Hungary once, though only in Budapest, Szentendre and Balaton, so people there did know some English, though also some knew Polish, which kinda surprised me.

Also, I guess that basic communication won't be a problem, but if we wanted to have a true conversation, how easy would it be to find a partner?

>>53101714
You can even speak Polish with most people here
I don't think you'll have any problems because you're Polish

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>>53101984
Won't there be problem with the "Slovak/Czech language is Polish just with funnier words... oh wait it isn't" trap? I've never actually met a Slovak or a Czech, only watched your cartoons which were either dubbed or didn't have any dialogues at all (Sąsiedzi, krtek)

>>53101714

I went to Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Croatia (not Lithuania though) with a group of five other mates.

None of us spoke anything but English.

We were fine.

>>53102193
I had the feeling that Hungarians aren't too ken on English. You stayed in major cities? Or you just encountered people who spoke English with no difficulty?

>>53101714
How come you picked up so many languages, Przemek? Is your French really serviceable?

>>53102345

We stayed one night in Budapest and everyone we came across there spoke English - the staff of the hostel, people in bars, and the Turkish guys in the kebab shop.

But we also spent two nights in Keszthely, a tiny little town on Lake Balaton. We met some girls there our age who spoke some English (not a huge amount). The staff at our campsite had some very rudimentary English if I remember. But I do remember we went to a restaurant and they spoke basically no English at all. But we still managed to order our meal (I think the menu had English translations) and lots of beers.

>>53102484
Actually those are the languages our whole group speaks :)

But i do know them, I learned English because it's the current lingua franca,
French because i have family there and been spending some time there,
Russian because i live in Eastern Poland (where noone invests) and to get prepared for rus-Anschluss. German - because ger-Anschluss and my mother is a teacher of both.

>>53102736
reeeee, so jelly

>>53102736
If I invested in east Poland, would I actually make some money?

>>53102345

I mean basically here's my advice to you - stop worrying about your languages. Just go and have a great time. Travelling across Europe was the most enjoyable thing I ever did.

>>53102722
Fair enough, our concern about Hungary is gone then. Thanks for sharing.

>>53102778
well, languages are one of the very few things i grasped (and my family is generally multi-lingual, which helps a lot), i suppose there is sometihng i could be jelly about you (eg. comparing Baltic sea and your Beaches... there is no comparison)

>>53102813
unemployment in my area is 17%. people crave for jobs. if you'd start almost ANY business here and employ ppl, you'd be a regional hero, get some tax relief. labor here is rather cheap, land and real estate too. there is good road and rail connection, there is even a semi-operational airport (semi- because very close to Belarussian border, planes taking off almost cross it). You wouldn't make tons of gold, but you'd get some return and gratitude. Unless some ultra-nationalist "hurr-durr foreign capital" would oppose, which is unlikely

>>53102915
Probs you're right, maybe i've heard a bit too much about post-commie shitholesness and generally worrying stories from trucker friends and uni colleagues.