Have you ever taken the 4-6 tram in Budapest? It’s actually two different tram lines that both start at Széll Kálmán tér in the Buda part of the city, and circle around Pest before returning to Buda, where the no. 6 line ends at Móricz Zsigmond körtér, and the no. 4 line ends at Újbuda-központ.
But they share the track for most of the long trip around (roughly) central Budapest.
If you’ve taken the 4-6 tram, did you understand the announcements on the loudspeaker? If not, we’ll help you decode it!
We’ve recorded three announcements and will teach them to you in this lesson, as well as a new nationality and a Hungarian idiom.
Audio for Lesson 12 (formal speech):
Recordings heard on the tram:
“A Király utca következik.”
“A Rákóczi tér következik. Átszállhatnak az M4-es Metróra.”
“Az Oktogon következik. Az ajtók a bal oldalon nyílnak. Átszállhatnak az M1-es Metróra.”
You might hear in the podcast that I’ve got a bit of a cold as my voice sounds a little different. Sorry about that, and I think we’ll probably take next week off so I can recover properly!
Music: Nomada, “Aven le Roma.” Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Hungary License. Available at remix.creativecommons.hu.
The PDF file below contains the written audio and vocabulary, and the MP3 file has the audio for Lesson 12. Download both of them below, or subscribe on iTunes. Thanks for listening and leave a comment below!
Hey guys! I’m trying to impress a girl who is from hungary (Transylvania). I just started listening & I’m really glad you are doing these podcasts. They are very helpful and I cant wait to hear more!
Thank you 🙂
Hey Kyle, glad to hear you’re enjoying the podcasts! Romantic interest is indeed a good motivator to learn languages, especially Hungarian 🙂
Thanks for listening and let us know if there’s anything in particular you’d like to learn.
Steven
Great episode! Interesting to hear you haven’t used the new metro line yet, this was still being built last time my wife and I visited family there. We’ll see it next year.
Köszönjük szépen Andy! Actually we have used the new metro, we just don’t use it that often, even though it goes right through our neighborhood. It is quite beautiful though and I enjoy riding it. I guess you’ll get to see it next year 🙂
Cheers, Steven