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  • August 20, 2025 at 9:24 pm #2932
    Liz Vos
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      Who was speaking Hungarian? Did you end up learning some, too?

      August 21, 2025 at 11:17 am #2948
      Lajos Kriso
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        Magyarul was spoken at home until I was 5. Then I “forgot” it all in 6 months because I learned angolul in front of the TV because I started school. But the ear and the tongue do not forget. The sound of magyarul is melodic and like poetry when I hear it spoken!

        We have magyarora every week but progress is sometimes slow. When Pope Francis visited Hungary, he said that Hungarian is the language of heaven because it takes an eternity to learn!

        Without the language there will be no more Hungary!

        God Bless Hungary!

        August 21, 2025 at 12:33 pm #2956
        Ildikó Oravecz
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          Yes, I grew up hearing Hungarian at home! My father spoke only Hungarian, so my brothers and I were raised bilingual. Once we started school, English began to take over, and when I moved to Hungary in ’98 I quickly realized my vocabulary was that of a child! It took time—and a lot of learning—to build it up again.

          August 21, 2025 at 2:52 pm #2968
          Lajos Kriso
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            But the vocabulary of a child is better than no vocabulary! I wish that I still had mine.

            August 24, 2025 at 10:56 am #3067
            Veroniva Horvath
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              Yes, we lived with our maternal grandparents. They were trying to learn English, but we picked up a few words here and there. We usually learned the most when they did not want us to know what they were talking about. But, we did not find out until years later that Hungarian has 7 dialects! There was a Hungarian Bishop that visited St. Margaret of Hungary Church. We sat with a great lady of the parish, Clara Sonokey. She asked us to help make Fank. She only understood the first few sentences. She spoke Hungarian her entire life.

              August 24, 2025 at 11:14 am #3069
              Vickie Tschantz
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                Yes! My Grandmother spoke Hungarian to her 5 children which included my Mom. Grandmother spoke broken English but as a kid I picked up only a few words.

                August 24, 2025 at 6:06 pm #3079
                Marianna
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                  Hi!

                  Yes, my mother spoke it with her mother, father, and brother; however, did not teach my sister and I.

                  August 24, 2025 at 6:33 pm #3081
                  Sonya Weaver
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                    I did grow up learning Hungarian in our home. My parents taught me and I spoke it my whole life until about 20 years ago when I had no one to speak it with. So I recently am re-learning the language with the courses that are offered in Hungarian Living! It’s great because it’s a beginners course to refresh my memory and learn the actual grammar of the language.

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