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Köszönjük szépen!
–steven
Inspired by an email by listener Kathy and mentioned in the last lesson, here is the short rhyme that Hungarians use to practice rolling their “r” sound:
Répa, retek, mogyoró,
korán reggel ritkán rikkant a rigó.
Carrot, radish, hazelnut,
The blackbird rarely chirps in the early morning.
Although the version Kathy mentioned was slightly different:
Répa, retek, mogyoró,
mind a három nagyon jó.
Carrot, radish, hazelnut,
All three are delicious.
Have a listen to Lesson 5 for the correct pronunciation of these two rhymes!
Listener Olivér has just provided us with two useful links.
1) Online Hungarian-English, English-Hungarian translation and multi-language dictionary:
http://www.webforditas.hu/index.php
I’m not too sold on machine translation yet, but it’s free, and certainly better than nothing.
2) An interesting looking pop-up dictionary application for Mac OSX (free for home use):
http://www.progikon.hu/swifttranslate_en.html#letolt
Közsi szépen, Olivér!
