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== Phrasebook ==
 
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Slovak is a Slavic language with many divergent dialects.
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Slovak is a Slavic language with many divergent dialects. Even slovak people from the west do not understand slovak people from the east.
  
 
* Hello (formal/casual) '''Dobrý deň'''/'''Ahoj'''
 
* Hello (formal/casual) '''Dobrý deň'''/'''Ahoj'''

Revision as of 17:07, 10 August 2012

Flag of Slovakia Slovakia
Information
Language: Slovak
Capital: Bratislava
Population: 5 455 000
Currency: Euro (EUR, €)
Hitchability: <rating country='sk' />
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<map lat='48.6667' lng='19.5' zoom='6' view='0' float='right' country='Slovakia'/>

Slovakia is a member state of the European Union as well as the Schengen Agreement with borders to Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine and Hungary. Off the international routes, few drivers may stop when you are standing on the road, so it is best to ask directly at gas stations. Some, but not many drivers speak English or German, especially younger ones. Russian is more widely understood among older people, but not necessarily liked. It is not common from the drivers to ask money for a ride. Hitchhiking in Slovak is called stopovanie, stopovať.

Hitchhiking (and indeed all pedestrian access) is not allowed on motorways, but one can hitchhike from entry ramps or ask drivers for a lift at petrol stations. On the country's national roads, you can simply stand wherever cars are going slowly and put out your thumb. Use a card displaying a two-letter code of your destination town (see below in section "Number plates"), if your intended destination cannot be obvious to the drivers. It is not advised to hitch on an older national road which runs parallel to a newer motorway, because all longer-distance traffic uses the motorway (unless of course you only want to get to the nearest village). Hitchhiking in pairs of a man and a woman is the best bet: most successful and also secure.

Phrasebook

Slovak is a Slavic language with many divergent dialects. Even slovak people from the west do not understand slovak people from the east.

  • Hello (formal/casual) Dobrý deň/Ahoj
  • Please Prosím
  • Thank you Ďakujem
  • Direction Smer
  • Highway Diaľnica
  • Are you going to ...? Idete do ...?
  • Are you please going in direction of ...? Idete, prosím, smerom na ...?
  • Goodbye Dovidenia
  • Yes Áno
  • No Nie
  • To the next gas station Na ďalšiu benzínku
  • I will get down here Tu vystúpim

You can find a lot of offers for hitchhikers at stopar.sk (available in English). However, most drivers expect you to pay something for the ride (less then 1 EUR for km)

Titush hitchhiking towards Slovakia

Cities

Hugo hitchhiking from Poprad to Zilina

Border crossings

Number Plates

The plate consists of two letters followed by the coat of arms of Slovakia, then three numbers followed by two letters. The first two letters represent the town, and because these codes are well known by drivers, you can write them on signs.

Number plate of town Ilava, Slovakia




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