Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Where better than Budapest?

Museum
Central Pest
Hero's Square
Palace

Museum of Applied Arts

The Danube
Babs on bike
Szechenyi Baths
Szechenyi Baths
Stand-up comedy
Our Street
Castle hill
Pest from Castle Hill


St. Istvans cathedral


Known to be one of the world's most difficult languages, it is not surprising that this language's challenges make for an interesting start to 6 months living everything this beautiful city has to offer. The fact that this language is in fact closer to Hindi than to English quickly explains why some very interesting (and sometimes unfortunate) anomalies sometimes arise. I have listed a few of the favourites below:

szia (pronounced seeya) = hello, though can mean good bye as well
héllo = hood bye but can also mean hello.
akt (pronounced act) = nude
blokk (pronounced block) = receipt
kánon (pronounced canon) = round
kantin (pronounced canteen) = mess
test = body
comb = thigh
part = shore
sajt (pronounced shite) = cheese

These are just a few examples. Makes for a good laugh sometimes at least!

3 Comments:

At 9:50 am, Blogger kementasun said...

What nice pictures Ben. When I went to Budapest, I was only there for 1 week, but I could notice how difficult the language is.
Take care. oscar

 
At 3:47 pm, Blogger Meerkata said...

How is the intense course going?
Beszélsz már magyarul?

 
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