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| Who’s the foreigner in this country now? |
| Bratislava, 28.01.2021 |
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| An avalanche of adjectives starts pouring out of David Rubin when asked how his past year was: difficult, bizarre, disruptive, frightening, maddening, uncertain, tedious.“If I did not have people to help translate things that I did not understand, then it would have been much more difficult,” says Rubin, a New Yorker who settled in Slovakia more than a decade ago and went on to co-found an English language school in Bratislava.His description sums up the experience of most foreigners living here, be it the girl at the cashier in your supermarket, your Spanish language teacher or the medical student who took your COVID swab the other day.
During the pandemic, Rubin’s school would send regular updates to their teachers - foreigners, to add to the efforts of the NGOs and English-language media. The state authorities were slower to catch up back in the spring, leaving those who do not speak Slovak hanging. Some found themselves trapped in very specific life situations. But for most, the pandemic-related questions were universal. Will I be able to visit my family? Can I keep going to my office or serving food at my bistro? When will my kids go back to school?If you’re a foreigner, you probably needed to work twice as hard to get hold of the answers.
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