#learning hungarian

[cinematiclinguist]

i love hungarian so much. it’s such a fascinating and beautiful language with a rich history and when i speak it i feel connected to my ancestors and family…. but

why dose it need to have over 1 million words??

[seatail-mc]

amazing. no notes. thank you wikipedia

[m3taphorical-cats]

Quaxo from the hungarian production….

(Sorta redesign in a way)

[mwagneto]

HENRY YOU WILL DO NO SUCH THING

[creatureprofessor]

the funniest Hickey Moment for me is when he starts to imitate crozier at the trial. it's just hilarious for me to imagine hickey going to bed and reciting it by heart each night under his breath like a petty little memoriter, never actually knowing when he's ever going to use it, but he Must get the accent and intonation right!

[moldwood]

[p4nishers]

burt and fields calling each other attila after fucking attila the hun is so fucked up you dont get it. calling ur spouse a pet name after a mass murderer colonizer is INSANE and doing it BECAUSE he just started a new job at the abuse your workers company is . concerning

[northwest-by-a-train]

Oh this is scathing

[theirwolfbicanthrope]

okay so I started pondering over a certain detail lately with Nosferatu 2024 - whether Orlok is Hungarian or Romanian. I found this Den of Geeks piece for the movie where Bill himself said Orlok could be other one. (quote in the scan below)

"There's no historically accurate accent of what that would sound like anymore. He could possibly be Hungarian or he could be Romanian."

so now my question is, could he be both? have heritage on both sides? I know in the 16th century Transylvania was part of/controlled by Hungary, and from what I've read there's a lot of lingering tension between Hungarians and Romanians, but I am still learning more detailed history for that particular period/area. Eggers and co. have referred to Orlok or his look/style as Romanian, Hungarian and also just Transylvanian (iirc).

the Dacian language indicates (imo) that he seems to have Romanian heritage through at least one parent but that doesn't necessarily have to be the case. there's always the chance he was simply a Hungarian nobleman who went down the rabbit hole of the Daco-Romanian based traditions and folklore and magic/religion. even being ethnically Romanian doesn't mean he'd known Dacian if it was a dead language by then.

(my personal headcanon for the Dacian is, during his dive into the occult, he learned the language, and now he strictly uses it because it's a dead language - I'm sorry but Orlok is absolutely that guy who'd speak the dead language nobody else knows because it proves how learned he is.)

[daintydoilypon]

Why don't you speak French as much?

My entire class got bullied by, specifically, older French people when we went bc...they thought we were Canadian French. Did we have an accent? Idk, but they were ruthless.

It's the same with Spanish, apparently. According to Silo who is Cuban/ Ecuadorian/El Salvadorian, each Spanish-speaking country thinks their Spanish is the "best/most correct/pure/etc" version, thinking other countries are butchering the language. Kinda like British vs the American accent. Same with France and Canada. It's that. It's mostly the older people that have this opinion/mindset. None of my French or Spanish friends on here have this holier-than-thou mentality, but Silo's older family? YEEEEEEEESH.

If I speak French anywhere else, but France, the old people appreciate it, but if I speak it in the motherland, I am a WORM. A LOWLY, allegedly Canadian, WORM. HOW DARE I UTTER ONE SENTENCE IN THE MOTHER TONGUE IN SUCH A CRUDE MANNER /j.

((Also, I have no one around that speaks it. I use Duolingo to refresh tho. If/When I go back, I'll be way more confident. Back then, I was bullied through school, so I was a pushover. However, I'm 30 now with no will to live except through spite, I will throw hands.))

[seatail-mc]

Years ago, when I first decided to learn hungarian, I bought a "learn to read with fairytales" book and when I first opened it I was like "wow! this is not for beginners!!" and didn't pick it up again for years...

...until yesterday!

Honestly I was still assuming it would be too difficult for me, but i actually could read a lot more of it than I thought!!

Behold! Progress! :

Now you might look at this and say "wow that's a lot of highlighted words!" but don't look at that part! Look at how many words are not highlighted! Thats what's important and impressive to me lmao

I actually can't believe how many words/grammar concepts i know and/or can figure out in context! Sokat tudok olvasni! (Although... psst @semifontos ... I have no idea why "félrevesse" ends like that. I can't find that verb form anywhere 😭)

Anyway I can almost call myself a real langblr now that I've posted aesthetic pictures of my notes lol

[thesnakeandthemoon]

Lesson learned (2024)

dir. by Bálint Szimler (Szimler Bálint)

It's not as good as I hoped,unfortunately!

[fitzrove]

some elisabeth prod should stage mayerling in a really freaky way where tod like, sets rudolf up as his bondage marionette before kissing

[tonhalszendvics]

I guess ra'zacs like the hunting and such, but if I remember well, Quimby was already dead when they ate him. Which means that they are fine with eating whatever remains.

This Earth of ours have countless cultures, and some of them has/had the element where the dead was buried into the sky: corpse goes out, birds/other animals come, clean the bones and the bones then were dealt with in a way said culture was okay with it. There were various reasons why do this phenomenon exist; ie. living in a stone desert where wood is a luxury item and digging up the stone is ugh; or various religious reasons.

So picture this: someone gets to go to Alalea, and they find a flourishing human nation, without burial sites, living in symbiosis with lethrblakas and their human-eating babies.

[gu6chan]

the thing that gets me whenever i hear about finnish is hearing that spoken and written finnish is "different". Like when I first heard about this i was like "Yeah duh as it is with literally every language to ever exist" but it turns out it's like ..... DIFFERENT different????? how does that work. what happens if I go to finland and transcript something spoken as is. will they take me out back and shoot me

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Other people in my cohort who study other places: Why do you take so many language classes? You've already fulfilled the language requirements.

Me, the Habsburgist: I have run across 10 languages so far in my research. I read more than half of them, though not half as well as I'd like.