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Hungarian idiom of the week: a gatyám is rámegy

November 30, 2014 By Let's Learn Hungarian!

Here’s a funny and common idiom for this week:

 

gatyám is rámegy

gatyám (is) rámegy (very expensive)

This literally means something like “my pants go on it,” but is used to mean that something is quite expensive, especially something that you have already paid a lot for, or something that keeps costing you a lot of money.

Usage:

A gatyám is rámegy az új kocsira! – My new car is so expensive!

Real usage:

“Szeretem, csak néha a gatyám is rámegy.“

“I love it, but sometimes it is quite expensive.”

(from http://totalcar.hu/autok/opel/vectra_1995/szeretem_csak_neha_a_gatyam_is_ramegy/)

(PHOTO: “Stand Up Pants” by The Costume Guild CC By NC 2.0)

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: hungarian idiom, learning, magyar, magyarul

Watch: the movie “Moszkva tér”

November 20, 2014 By Let's Learn Hungarian!

In the last podcast, Györgyi gave an enthusiastic recommendation for the 2001 Hungarian film “Moszkva tér” (Moscow Square), which is set in Budapest in 1989 and gives a retro look back at the city at that time.

The city, of course, has changed so much since then. As we mentioned in the podcast, even Moszkva tér itself is now called Széll Kálmán tér.

The entire film is online, alas without English subtitles, but still it’s a good way of getting a feel of the Hungarian language. See how much you can understand!
 

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Hungarian, Hungarian film, language learning, moszkva ter

Listen: the music of JAZZ + AZ

November 11, 2014 By Let's Learn Hungarian!

In our last podcast, Györgyi recommended one of her favorite Hungarian pop groups, Jazz + Az (pronounced “Jazz meg az”).

The group was formed in the late 1990s by Péter Geszti, who has recently turned into an impresario of sorts since becoming a mentor in the Hungarian X-Factor talent show a few years ago. Earlier in the 1990s, Geszti was a part of the Hungarian rap group Rapül?k.

Listen to Jazz + Az’s catchy, funky tune “Ma jól vagyok” (“I’m Fine Today”) below, with lyrics and another song of theirs:

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Filed Under: Other Tagged With: dal, Hungarian, jazz meg az, language, learning, song

It’s moving time!

July 31, 2008 By Let's Learn Hungarian!

Sziasztok!

Thanks for all of the recent feedback we’ve gotten from so many of you. Györgyi and I love to read your comments and hear how you are using the language and enjoying the podcast. It’s also very motivating for us, so please keep it up! I apologize for not responding to your comments and emails lately, but we’ve been real busy with our upcoming move back to Hungary. Györgyi has already moved back, and I’ll go myself in September.

As for the podcast, I was hoping to get one more with Györgyi done before she left, but it didn’t work out. I would like to continue the podcast though, so perhaps I’ll do a few survival lessons solo until I see her again.

Well thanks for listening everyone, and again if you have anything to say, we’d love to hear it.

Minden jót,
Steven

Filed Under: Other

Music recommendation: Kimnowak

July 10, 2008 By Let's Learn Hungarian!

Hello all,

The next lesson is being prepared and will be out in a few days. Until then, enjoy this lovely song by the Hungarian rock band Kimnowak, “Gyémánt” (“Diamond”). It’s been played to death on Hungarian radio, but still I find it haunting and tender. Lead singer Péter Novák is the key to the song’s beauty.

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: gyemant, Hungarian, Hungary, kimnowak, music, novak, peter

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