Saturday, August 11, 2018

Say it in Hungarian



A review of "How the Fox Got His Color. Bilingual English-Hungarian Edition" 

My maternal grandfather was half-Hungarian, and actually taught me how to pronounce Hungarian words, but never came around actually teaching me the vocabulary. But then, he was half-something else, too, what I won't disclose here. So, believe it or not, although my Hunnish pronunciation may be a bit rusty, I can (more or less correctly) read aloud wonderful sentences such as this: “Egy gyönyörü szivárvány tükörképe látszódott a folyóban”, which apparently means “There in the river was a reflection of a beautiful rainbow”. If Magyar aint your first language, don't worry, it’s a bilingual children's book, so even you will get to know how the fox got its sour grapes, eh, I mean red color. Vége!

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