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Mini Hungarian language lesson: imagine.So, there is this little word: "kép". Pronounced as "cape", it simply means "image". Originally meaning "form" or "shape", it probably came from Old
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Mini Hungarian language lesson: water spider, wonder spider.Unusually, I need to start with a content warning: if you can't tolerate spiders, not even in cute cartoon form, please look away
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There is a mixed abomination called "finomfőzelék" but we don't talk about it.Most of us have been scarred for life by school dinners featuring the pallid little harbingers of death
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Mini Hungarian language lesson: house of cardsA historic house being demolished to make way for yet another hotel is an everyday occurrence in downtown Budapest.But today's news about the demise
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Mini Hungarian language lesson: music.As my series is drawing to its close, I thought I might as well post something 100% self-indulgent: a list of bands I like.Most of them
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Mini Hungarian language lesson: entrepreneurs.Contrary to what one might think, private enterprise wasn't entirely unheard of in Communist Hungary. In fact as the 1980s was drawing to a close, more
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Mini Hungarian language lesson: Pest-BudaHere's the thing: "Which towns united to form the city of Budapest?" is a great quiz question for particularly evil quizmasters. It's one of those that
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Mini Hungarian language lesson: two towers.I often wonder what it would've been like to be born into a culture and language that had already gone global: English, French, Spanish...incidentally there
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