As most everyone in Slovak-World already knows, our Christmas site at www.iarelative.com/xmas has become a Slovak Christmas tradition. Our Czech Site,...
In your charity, please remember the soul REGINA ONDREKOVA, the mother of RUDI ONDRECO and mother-in-law of ZUZKA ONDRECO. She passed away this past week. I'm...
New Year's Day has brought an unplanned, dramatic drop in natural gas supplies to Slovakia. It is a result of a conflict over the price of natural gas between...
... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0816_050816_gas_theft.ht ... Sorry. The whole URL above was too long. Try: http://tinyurl.com/73a6g RU...
1) What's the Slovak word for 'ornament,' as in ornament on a Christmas tree? Nobody at the Slovak Conversation group (in Pittsburgh) could answer that...
Pezolt's Anglicko - Slovensky / Slovensko Anglicky Dictionary [my trusty interpreter] lists "ornament" as follows: ozdoba, ozdobif and "ornamentation" as...
... Yes, Anabeth. The equivalents of _for_ are quite messy, but there's a good underlying rule in this instance. Whenever you figure out that the underlying...
A friend just learned the names of villages where her maternal grandmother had lived in the Zemplin area. The village names are Plashchcz and Koczand. I...
The Ukaine passing gas? Oy vey. I mean a whole country passing gas at the same time? I guess that is a crisis. I'm glad we're half a world away. Colin ... ...
Hi, Actually, Greek Catholics in Slovakia follow the Gregorian Calendar and celebrated Christmas on December 25. This is for the Feast of the Theophany, The...
There's the village of Pl'as~t'ovce, formerly Plast, Palasth, Plassovce, and Palast (in Hungarian), among other variants, but it's in western Slovakia, near...
Helen, Thanks for your reply. There's a good chance it wasn't transcribed correctly. I thought the names strange as well but thought just maybe they might...
Dear Vladi, I am only making fun of the wording of the message; however, I don't find anything to laugh about regarding the energy situation of the world....
Actually, some Orthodox do celebrate Christmas on Dec 25th, but almost all retain the Easter celebration according to the Julian Calender which sometimes does...
Has anyone else every experienced this? I just got off the phone with the Slovak Embassy in New York - and I don't know if it's because of the language but...
Yes Maa'm, it is getting worse and worse. Bureaucracy never understood that they should serve us. This reminds me of a letter of a small clovak village...
Thanks for the feedback, it was kind of stressful. And I thought New Yorker's are rude!! Funny thing - my aunt has been staying w/me & my husband since...
You must have been unlucky? I dealt with the Slovak embassy in Australia and apart from having difficulty explaining what I wanted I was dealt with very...
... It's the embassies in the US. My husband had a dreadful time last year dealing with the German embassy in Chicago. He even had to drive there a couple of...
Michelle A Mader
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heh, nice. It's the classic Central/Eastern European "service with a scowl". When I want that here, I go to the local Russian restaurant. :) -S...
the Slovak Embassy is open precious few hours during the day. maybe something like from 10am to noon. i went to the Slovak Embassy in New York some years ago...
Two comments from Slovak newspapers on the country's natural gas supplies (about 95% comes from Russia via Ukraine): Pravda (centre-left): "[Russian President]...
When I came to Slovakia 11 years ago I was surprised byt the campaign "Gas to every village, every household!" All roads in villages are ruined because of gas...
What are you talking about? You aren't even a Slovak at all!! You have no CLUE. Look at the villages now. Yes they put in pipes and covered it and now there...
Does anyone know how I can be removed from this group. I have made numerous requests, to no avail. Please help. ... From: Slovak-World@yahoogroups.com...
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