Showing posts with label hungarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hungarian. Show all posts
Friday, November 01, 2013

A 100 year old mirror

›
Recently, I started reading what seems to be widely regarded as "The Great Transylvanian Novel", which is Miklos Banffy 's ...
2 comments:
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Singing in tongues

›
Look! I exist! I blog. Therefore I am? It has come to my attention that more and more Romanian pop bands/singers/"projects"/entiti...
12 comments:
Thursday, September 02, 2010

Greet Expectations

›
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that there are very few places in the world where the act of greeting someone on the stre...
15 comments:
Thursday, July 08, 2010

Words don't come easy

›
When Bill Bryson moved back to the US (to live not far up the road from me, in fact) he wrote a book of his experiences as a long time expat...
11 comments:
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Irredentist

›
Today’s word of the day is Irredentist. It has absolutely nothing to do with the person who fixes your teeth. ir•re•den•tist n. One who ad...
4 comments:
Monday, October 02, 2006

Sütő András

›
Sütő András has died. He was, until last night, one of the most famous living Transylvanian Hungarians. To Hungarians he is a great playwr...
Monday, May 08, 2006

Magyarisms

›
English has, I’m told, 6 words which come to us from Hungarian. One or two of these words are only used to illustrate Hungarian concepts or...
6 comments:
Thursday, February 16, 2006

Googling for Hungarians

›
When I was in Kiev a few months back, I realized that all web addresses are in Roman script. Now this may not be much of a revelation, I’ll...
9 comments:
Monday, January 30, 2006

Hunganian

›
My Hungarian is progressing. Painfully slowly but it is progressing. I attend a Hungarian class twice a week with two Romanians and a Germa...
5 comments:
Monday, November 14, 2005

Coming out in a nasty 'tache

›
Why is it that Hungarian men sport large moustaches unseen practically anywhere else in the world? Is it to disguise spectacularly ugly upp...
Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Felsziget

›
Every summer, Budapest hosts a music festival on an island in the Danube. It’s called the Sziget (island) Festival, and is clearly a fairly...
2 comments:
Wednesday, June 15, 2005

The view of Hungary from here

›
I was talking to my students this evening (I have one class of 10, 9 Hungarian 1 Romanian, thus reflecting fairly accurately the demography ...
7 comments: