Our first meeting was on the 15th of September. I met Tamás and Rebeka in my flat in the center of Tampere (TOAS Pinja). I was so excited to meet new people from another country.
I begin to learn the Hungarian alphabet (which is not the same as the French one), the numbers, the colors and some basics words of everyday life. You can read them at the end of my article. It was really interesting to meet them and to talk about different cultures.
During this meeting, we also played a Hungarian card game called ‘ZSÍR’. We had to play in team so I was with Rebeka and Tamás was with Béla (another Hungarian friend in my flat). Sometimes, card games are similar between different countries but not that time. So it was really interesting to discover the ZSÍR game.
My first impression of the Hungarian language is that it is really difficult to pronounce because it is not the same sounds than in French. There are forty-four letters in the Hungarian alphabet while there are twenty-six letter in the French alphabet.
The numbers in Hungarian:
- 0 = nulla ; 1 = egy ; 2 = kettő ; 3 = három ; 4 = négy ; 5 = öt ; 6 = hat ; 7 = hét ; 8 = nyolc ; 9 = kilenc ; 10 = tíz.
- 11= tizen + egy ; 12 = tizen + kettő, etc.
Some basics words:
- Good morning (before 10 am): jó reggelt
- Good afternoon: jó napot
- Good evening (after 7 pm): jó estét
- Hello / Bye: Szia
- boy: fiú
- girl: lány
- father: apa
- mother: anya
- dog: kutya
- cat: macska
- horse: ló
- chicken: csirke
- cow: tehén
Colors:
- white: fehér
- black: fekete
- red: piros
- green: zöld
- blue: kék
- yellow: sárga
- orange: narancssárga
- grey: szürke
- brown: barna
- pink: rózsaszín
- purple: lila
Food and drinks:
- bread: kenyér
- butter: vaj
- ham: sonka
- cheese: sajt
- milk: tej
- salt: só
- pepper: bors
- cucumber: uborka
- tomato: paradicsom
- apple: alma
- pear: körte
- pear: körte
- water: víz
- beer: sör
- wine: bor
Other basics words:
- chair: szék
- bed: ágy
- table: asztal
- window: ablak
- door: ajtó
- fridge: hűtőszekrény
- microwave: mikrohullámú sütő
Basic discussion:
- Hogy vagy? (How are you?
- Jól, köszönöm. és te? (Fine, thank you. And you?)
- Szívesen. (You’re welcome)
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