I haven't really been home for the last 5 weeks except a weekend to do laundry. It seems much longer though. Two and a half wacky weeks in Japan followed by another two weeks in Basel, or Bale depending on which side of the country you are from. We complain about having to deal with Spanish as a second or primary language. Here in little old Switzerland they have four official languages.
There's French, Italian and this wacky little language known as Romanish (no, not Romanian). It's only spoken by a few thousand people out in the sticks of Graubünden; it's kind of a Latin based German. The main language of course is German, but don't let that fool you. There are so many dialects floating around that cause break room discussions over word meanings.

I was once ridiculed because we "English" speakers never use the correct name of cities or countries. I was sitting at a table enjoying a beer and discussing movies with a mix three Swiss and Germans. They didn't like that I referred to the movie "Troy" as Troy and not the German Troye. I Googled a bit and I'm not even sure how the Greeks pronounce it but it looks like Troy.
Anyway I looked at them, smiled and said do you mean like "Genf-Genev-Geneva" or "Bale-Basel" or perhaps "Biel-Bienne". I said, "You can’t even decide how to name your own cities! You live next door to France yet insist on calling it Frankriech." I conceded that English speakers are not perfect, but every language has its own names for cities and countries around the world.