Let's Learn Hungarian!

Learn the Hungarian language and have fun!

You are here: Home / podcasts / Lesson 15 – What lovely weather!

Lesson 15 – What lovely weather!

By

At long last we have a new lesson, and one celebrating lovely summer weather. Lesson 15 has Bernard and Noémi enjoying a picnic outside at Normafa, but something goes wrong…

We had a lot of fun putting this lesson together, as you can hear!

Picture of Normafa picnic
Picnic at Normafa
 

Download the MP3 file for this lesson below, as well as the transcript in the PDF file, which also has the new vocabulary and useful phrases.

Don’t forget to leave us a comment below letting us know what you think of the podcast. Thanks for listening! Köszönjük szépen!

Music: Nomada, “Aven le Roma.” Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Hungary License. Available at remix.creativecommons.hu.

Image: By Zoli Juhasz (Picnic Before Winter Comes) [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], via Flickr

Lesson 15 notes (PDF)

Lesson 15

Comments

  1. Sziasztok Steve és Györgyi,

    I was very excited when I saw a new lesson is up and was not disappointed when I listened – it’s great! I’m heading to Hungary soon and this episode will help me. Your timing was perfect. 🙂 Thanks for providing the PDF as well I find it useful.

    Köszönöm szépen!

  2. Szia David,
    Thanks for the comment and the kind words! It’s great to get this feedback. Is there anything in particular you’d like to hear in a future lesson?
    Steven
    LLH

  3. Hi Steven,

    This is Liya. I am a graduate student from UIUC. I am doing research for paper which is about a Hungarian composer. Some materials that are in Hungarian. Do you know anyone would do the translation work ( expecting to pay for it）？ Those materials are stories or records, because i am going to use as the background information of the composer in the paper. So, those materials will not be hard for people not in music major to read. Any suggestion would be apprecitated. Best,liya

  4. Hello, Thanks for another lesson!
    I went to Budapest for the month of May to visit my father-in-law and get some help with the language. He lives close to Normafa and I had some lovely walks and runs in the area. Now it is back to me studying on my own.
    Hope to get another lesson soon.
    Regards,
    Maryna

  5. Dear Steve and Györgyi,
    firstly thank you very much for all the information and hungarian resource that you guys are sharing on the internet. I’m brazilian and hungarian descendant, I’ve just entered in an application for hungarian citizenship. For this reason I began to study one month ago (baby level yet) :D, and your podcasts are helping me a lot, as I can listen it anywhere and also because there are too few hungarian resource in my native language (portuguese). Do you think it´s possible to reach a basic conversation level in two years, with an everyday studying routine? As I can’t go to Hungary to improve my hungarian, because of my job, I’m looking for these exchanging languages chats, but I have not the minimum leve do use a chat yet… Thank you again, and sorry about some english mistake… Viszlát…

  8. Szia Fernando,

    Thanks for writing us! Yes, I think it’s definitely possible to get to a conversational level in Hungarian within two years, but you really need to work with a private tutor, either online or in person. Don’t give up, and keep studying! Good luck with the citizenship application – I became a naturalized Hungarian citizen myself not too long ago 🙂
    Cheers,
    Steven
    LLH

  9. Szia Steven,

    köszönöm szépen for your reply. I’m studing hard! Congratulations for you citizenship, soon we’ll be fellow countryman…

    Only bests.
    Fernando

  10. Szia Steven!

    My apologies for the late reply, I’ve just returned from holiday including some time spent in Hungary. I hope you had a great summer! There were a few things that came up during my visit that may be helpful for future lessons:

    1. Eating – With the food being so good in Hungary I spent a lot of time around the dinner table. 🙂 I did have a bit of trouble identifying all of the cutlery (fork, knife, spoon) and also around whether I wanted some more of something or if I was full. People would often tell me to “eat” or “drink” as they wanted to make sure I had enough. I did end up using “tele vagyok” and “elég” quite a bit. Also I was often asked if the food was hot spicy, or cold so I did learn some words around that.

    2. Time – I appreciate your earlier segments on how to tell the time as that got me started. During my visit the clock was not always at the top of the hour so I was in a bit of trouble at first. 🙂 I think if you could go through the quarter and half hours that would prove very useful.

    3. Numbers – Numbers in the tens, twenties, thirties came up a lot when discussing weather and when purchasing items it was thousands and hundreds. Things like “it’s 33 degrees outside” would definitely help me as well as something like “that will be 240 forint”.

    Thanks again for all of your work. All the best to you and the family.

    • Hi David,
      Now I’m sorry for the late reply! But your comment has some really useful information to help us plan future lessons! Thanks for writing back and we’ll definitely use some of your ideas 🙂
      Köszönöm,
      Steven – LLH

  11. Steven!
    Gratulálok a polgárság! Én dolgozom az enyém. A podcastok segíteni. Köszönöm szépen!

    Üdvözlet,

    Todd

  13. Koszonom a podcast. Remelem hogy tobb csinalnak. I have been trying to learn Hungarian and just found your podcasts. Eek csodalatos!

  14. It’s so funny… I’m the third Hungarian girl here after nana and hortenzita:) I wtaend to help you with the translation, but Zita passed me:)So what else could I say?:) Hugs from Hungary:) (ps.: Boci is my favourite local chocolate:)))

Recent Comments

Affiliate Disclosure

Let’s Learn Hungarian! is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a way for us to earn advertising revenue by advertising and linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.