Archives for April2008

Music recommendation: Jazz+Az

As recommended by Györgyi in the last lesson, here’s a few videos of the Hungarian pop band Jazz+Az, featuring the work of entrepreneur/musician Péter Geszti.

I kind of prefer their more upbeat songs, but these two aren’t bad. This is “Csepp a tengerben” (“Drop in the Ocean”), which has a hypnotic quality about it:

“Megint hétfő” (“Monday Again”) showcases Geszti’s low-key rhyming skills, and the video features some Budapest landmarks: Liberty Bridge, the old skool Tram 49, and the even older-skool Metro 1:

enjoy,
steven

Lesson 7 – I don’t drink coffee anymore

Lesson 7 brings us a dialogue between two old friends, Csaba and Katalin, who unexpectedly run into each other in a restaurant after not having met for a long time. Katalin wants to have a drink with Csaba, but he has a surprise for her!

See below for the script for this lesson’s material and the new vocabulary words. See how much of it you can memorize for the next lesson, as I’m sure we’ll have another review waiting for you.

Feel free to ask us if you have any questions about this lesson or Hungarian in general, or just to let us know what you think of our podcast. Just leave a comment on this post or on any other one. Thanks for listening!

Intro music: Curtis Maranda, “7th Heaven”. Check out more of Curtis’ work at http://www.curtismaranda.com/

Outro music: Mookie Brando and the Second Cousins, “Mister Cliché”. You can find out more about Budapest-based Mookie Brando at http://www.mookiebrando.com/ Thanks to Curtis and Mookie for allowing us to use their original music on the podcast.

Download Lesson 7 here (MP3 audio, 24:18)

 

Dialogue for Lesson 7 (informal speech):

Katalin: Csaba, te vagy?? Én vagyok, Katalin.

Csaba: Hű, szia Katalin!

Katalin: Hát, ezer éve nem találkoztunk.

Csaba: Igen. Hogy vagy? Minden rendben?

Katalin: Kösz, jól. Most…

Pincér: Tessék parancsolni.

Katalin: Ööööö, mit iszol, Csaba? Kávét? Teát?

Csaba: Nem, köszönöm. Most már nem iszom kávét.

Katalin: Komolyan? Miért nem?

Csaba: Mert Hare Krishna lettem.

Katalin: Micsoda??!?!?

Dialogue for Lesson 7 (English translation):

Katalin: Csaba, is that you? It’s me, Katalin.

Csaba: Whoa, hi Katalin.

Katalin: Wow, we haven’t met in ages.

Csaba: Yeah. How are you? Is everything ok?

Katalin: Fine, thanks. At the moment…

Waiter: May I take your order?

Katalin: Uhhh, what will you have to drink, Csaba? Coffee? Tea?

Csaba: No thanks. I don’t drink coffee anymore.

Katalin: Really? Why not?

Csaba: Because I’ve become a Hare Krishna.

Katalin: What??!?!?

Vocabulary for Lesson 7:

Hogy vagytok? – How are you? (when speaking to more than one person)

mindenki – everybody

Mi újság? – What’s up?

semmi – nothing

tizenegy – eleven

tizenkettő – twelve

kínai – Chinese

lassabban – more slowly

te – you (informal singular)

következő – next

hát – well, um…

Ezer éve nem találkoztunk. – We haven’t met in ages.

Tessék parancsolni. – May I take your order?

iszol – you drink (something)

Mit iszol? – What are you drinking? What are you having to drink?

kávé – coffee

tea – tea

iszom – I drink (something)

most már nem – not… anymore

komolyan – really, seriously

mert – because

lettem – I’ve become (something)

micsoda – what (often used to express surprise)