simmeringhatred ([info]simmeringhatred) wrote,
@ 2005-07-18 10:55:00
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Job (not the book)
I have a job interview today. The job looks like it might well be rubbish, but its short term. I am wearing a tie which I bought this morning for £1.25 in a charity shop- all my other ties are a bit crazy for a sensible 'look'. I feel a bit daft.

This wednesday I am going to 'former yugoslavia' to visit a friend. I got a cheap flight to trieste, which as any geography buffs might know, is in Italy. I will have to find my way to a foreign country, speaking nothing but English. Bugger. Still, its not far. You can aparently walk into (former) Yugoslavia from Trieste. I think, tho, Ill get a train or something.

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[info]xauenmurph
2005-07-18 01:39 pm UTC (link)
Good luck with that. Italian phrase handbooks probably aren't hard to follow phonetically, but people always think you know more than you do (at least here, with the Puerto Rican-accented Spanish and my long-forgotten store of same.) Does Yugoslavia use the cyrillic alphabet?

I'm not even sure, after my visits to England, that I what I usually speak is English.

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I speak Amurrican
[info]simmeringhatred
2005-07-18 01:47 pm UTC (link)
I tell people I am bilingual, as I speak both British English, and American, fairly fluently. They assume Im joking.
The Serbs use Cyrillic, not sure about the Croats. It doesnt help much- I dont know a word of either language, cyrillic or not. Ill just rely on the years of goodwill fostered by british people abroad and talk loudly. Once I get to the fmr. Yugoslavia it should be OK, as my friend speaks some Serbo-Croat. Trieste is a civilised place, there should be some English speakers around. James Joyce used to live there, aparently.

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