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On April 02 2015 00:42 Darkdwarf wrote:I've been to Budapest two times. Wonderful city, imo. If you have the time for it, visit Gellert or Szechenyi. Really nice place to relax, although quite expensive. You can get cheap and nice food from a few kebab places close to the northern train station. My favorite place is a chinese fast food place east of the Erszebest hid. The synagogue is cool if you're into that kind of touristing. The varhegy is not worth spending too much time at. Imo you can enjoy it as well from a distance as up there. (If you're not a total history nerd  )
inb4 enraged hungarian
hahaha
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Austria24417 Posts
Jagshemash!
Glad you got out of the bathroom faster this time
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On April 01 2015 20:02 Elyvilon wrote:This is actually Polish and not Czech, but close enough: + Show Spoiler +
lol XD
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On April 02 2015 01:22 DarkLordOlli wrote:
Jagshemash!
Glad you got out of the bathroom faster this time
"Jak się masz" too :D Lol that was fun.
Hungarian is a very enjoyable language to hear, although it has this trait that it doesn't remind you of absolutely anything when reading it xD (think Dutch - German - English, etc, Spanish - Italian - French, etc).
Would Hodmesowaszarej in Polish letters approximate this sound fairly?
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United States13143 Posts
On April 02 2015 07:23 McRatyn wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2015 01:22 DarkLordOlli wrote:
Jagshemash!
Glad you got out of the bathroom faster this time "Jak się masz" too :D Lol that was fun. Hungarian is a very enjoyable language to hear, although it has this trait that it doesn't remind you of absolutely anything when reading it xD (think Dutch - German - English, etc, Spanish - Italian - French, etc). Would Hodmesowaszarej in Polish letters approximate this sound fairly?
In what is a strange language group, Hungarian is in the same language group as Estonian, Finnish, and not a whole lot else.
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It's funny to me that you would get by in hungarian with czech pronunciation, with two completely different language families I would have expected Czechs to be as lost as anyone else (except maybe finnish people)
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On April 02 2015 23:57 Nebuchad wrote:
It's funny to me that you would get by in hungarian with czech pronunciation, with two completely different language families I would have expected Czechs to be as lost as anyone else (except maybe finnish people)
To clarify: I don't understand shit. Honestly, Hungarian is the most confusing thing in Europe, even police cars have something crazy on them (Ronderseg?) but the writing system is for some reason pretty tame. I presume that it is because of a similar evolution - that is that a weird language that didn't have a written form has accepted moreorless straight Latin spelling with just a few weird stuff added to either represent uncommon sounds or just because of some historic reasons. So you just need to learn a few exceptions and are good to go.
English for example is a completely different beast, the pronunciation is very far from being in 1:1 correspondence with written letters and you often need to view the word as a whole to know the sound; not to mention things like French that are completely nuts. But for example sensible romanic languages (Spanish, Italian, Romanian) are very easy to start reading, at least to the level of general understanding with the locals, very fast. Actually my favourite method of "inventing" Spanish words is to pronounce the English word like it was Czech (and then maybe add some ending for a hispanic flavour) and it works wonders 
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actually french pronunciation rules are more consistent than english ones. the problem stems from french people talking so fast. english on the other hand is just a weird mix of (historic) languages with an easy grammar.
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Whoa, I'm just browsing TL, looking out of my head, and suddenly a wild Hódmezővásárhely appears, and I'm like what the...?
You should definitely try "dobostorta", though, which is a really delicious sort of cake (one of my favorites) .
As for pronunciation, even though there are strange characters like "Ő" and "Ű" and some double consonants, it is actually very straightforward. Once you know how to pronounce all the letters, you can basically pronounce 100% of words. Unlike English, where a letter may be pronounced differently in different words.
The pronunciation of Hódmezővásárhely has already been explained quite well, and yeah, it literally means "Beaver-field-market-place".
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On April 03 2015 04:20 Hryul wrote:
actually french pronunciation rules are more consistent than english ones. the problem stems from french people talking so fast. english on the other hand is just a weird mix of (historic) languages with an easy grammar.
The problem with french is that we are using 5 vowels to write 16 vowel sounds, which doesn't sound like it would be practical, and isn't. But you probably don't want to hear me rant about how much the roman alphabet sucks =)
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I'm sad that nobody else thinks about maltese when talking about weird languages. This is quite a beauty. https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta
It looks like a mix between turkish, welsh and italian. That doesn't make sense.
Anyway, enjoy your training Zealously !
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I didn't know you were a swimmer, how good are you?
I heard Hungarian is a close relative of Finnish language and since Finnish is a bitch to learn I bet the same rings true for Hungarian.
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This would be the perfect dinner I'd love to eat right now: Start with Halászlé. As a main Paprikás Csirke. After Dobostorta I'
d get some Kürtőskalács.
I don't know about good restaurants in Budapest. 
Tarhonya would be a nice culinary souvenir: an easily transportable, very good and easy to make side dish.
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On April 05 2015 03:03 xpldngmn wrote:This would be the perfect dinner I'd love to eat right now: Start with Halászlé. As a main Paprikás Csirke. After Dobostorta I' d get some Kürtőskalács. I don't know about good restaurants in Budapest. Tarhonya would be a nice culinary souvenir: an easily transportable, very good and easy to make side dish.
Those are nice suggestions, but tarhonya as a coulinary souvenir, really? Aside from the fact that I personally don't like it, it's actually nothing more than just pasta. With that said, it definitely is easily transportable and easy to make, but I wouldn't say it's special in any way.
Kürtőskalács is really tasty, though .
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You are right about the tarhonya, I'm too cheap. A fine bottle of tokaji aszú would of course make a better souvenir (at least for lovers of sweet wine).
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Try Lángos, nuff said!
One of the best places to grab a bite in BP is Cserpes' Tejivó (they are a dairy company but this is a café they operate in the city center) it's by the McDonalds in Deák Ferenc tér (where the three subway's meet), can't miss it. Really good sandwiches and good drinks. Also coffee culture is excellent, with Tamp&Pull, Espresso Embassy and Madal's (heh, no pun intended :D) offering really, really awesome tasting coffee at decent prices. Also a French dude has a couple of bakeries called á Táble! littered accross town, although it is not cheap, the pastries are very well worth the price.
edit: wow I'm super late with my recommendations . I grew up and spent a good chunk of my adult life in BP but now I live in the UK, I visited after 18 months recently and the city is very fun when you're just hanging out for a short spell. Unfortunately it is quite burdening to be a proper hungarian taxpaying citizen day after day.
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