More False Friends

False friend of the week: csok (pronounced
like choke). It means kiss... oh, well. Also fog
(unfortunately, not pronounced like English) means
tooth.

Our Hungarian is fairly good for two weeks of class,
but we still only speak in the present tense and it
takes us so long to form sentences that people
sometimes get impatient with us... my new favorite
sentence that I constructed: Én kilépek a lakásból és
az Országházhoz setálok. It means, "I step out of the
flat and walk to the Parliament." Not much, but it is
progress.

False Friends

PassionFruit: I'm starting a list of "false friends" -- words that you think you
know, but that turn out to be something entirely different. For example, the Hungarian word szelet, pronounced the way Hungarians pronounce the English
word salad, means steak. The word hello means goodbye. (As well as hello.)

This is our favorite tea-house, Ezer Tea. We're spending hours here, studying, reading, gossiping and just generally hanging out. They have a fine loose-leaf tea selection and a very comfortable, pleasant place to sit.