From Hungary

[balage]

I'm here. From Hungary. Is it evident, not?

[balage]

My Ranger

I this dirty truck.

[balage]

Khm..
My name is Balázs, just the á isn't in english, that's why I thought the balage will be ok. Maybe I failed
I was enthusiastic about the american fullsize pickups, and that's why (plus I was curious the reactions) I registered in 2007 to the Titanspot.com. And after the Frontyspot, which was his partner forum with one owner.
And after on MMC. Very intersting to me how big the different between them.
I know my english is bad, but maybe -I hope -it's not tragic in communication.
I like the american forums because it shows the american everyday life better, than the TV, or the news.
that's all.

[Reserector]

Do you find American life to be much different than Hungarian life? If so, what are the biggest differences?

[balage]

(01-18-2010 10:46 AM)Reserector Wrote:  Do you find American life to be much different than Hungarian life?

Absolute

(01-18-2010 10:46 AM)Reserector Wrote:  If so, what are the biggest differences?

Difficult to explain with my english, but the difference is hugh in most thing, and wondrously similar in some affair.
I will try to tell.

[balage]

I will able to tell about the differenets, just after I live in US for a short time. Waiting.
But I found a funny writing about ourselves.
It's too long for me to translate, I used a program, and i tried to repair.

From where you know that you are Hungarian?

-When you use more sour cream, than ketchupot.
-When it is said that the Hungarian language is like that, than the Russian and the the others Slav language, and you into details you depict it coolly the Hungarians ancestry.
-When the paprika is so important at least than the salt and pepper.
-When Attila is one of your relative. Or József. Or János. Or László. Or István.
-When you love Túró Rudi***, but you cannot really explain for foreigners what the heck is that, while it was not tried.
-When your foreign country friends ask it whether you believe in it yet, that the Santa Claus Dec brings a gift from 24 onto 25, your answer in a way distracted, since the Santa Claus dec gives presents on 6 at us and otherwise at the time of Christmas the little one Jezus gives presents and the gifts already they are there already at the time of 6 in the evening on 24.
-When you can swear through 5 minutes with an air so, that not you use the same word two times.
-When you bear your engagement ring on the opposite side.
-When the train did not leave it yet the station, but you eat it already the home-made one your sandwich (generally a half there are paprika or a tomato in him) and there is meat fried in breadcrumbs mostly in him.
-When you can call a 79 km (49 miles) of long lake (Balaton) for Hungarian Sea, and you can swim it crosswise.
-When you know it what is the scone/drummer cake/chimney-stack
brioche/vegetable dish/curd cheese dumpling and you love them.
-When much more inventive, or what concerns the fraud at any of the nations.
-When Winnie the Pooh and Flinstone are families are a lot funnier dubbed.
-When you have a name-day, and nobody understands it by the time it is good.
-When you use fruit for a soup.
-When you tell it to everybody that Rubik cube is a Hungarian invention
-If you poured a glass of milk excellent for yourself already, from a bag
-When you swear that the garlic and the honeyed tea expel it from you the malady less, than under a day.
-When you had to eat a carrot constantly as a child, and that question of yours, that why, your parents it responded, that because of that, that can better to whistle.
-When heavy to explain that there is a surname on the first place, i mean this is not your first name.
-When you know that the red wine and coke are combinations delicate, and strange, that the foreigners lasts for strange one.
-When happy birthday is wished pulling your ear
-You are close to him when there are thermal water or a bath in your city
-When you know which nation sent most Nobel laureates to the world
-When you know it we that scone made with pork crackling
-When you grow up if you stand in rain
-When you can talk with strangers on the bus onto a doctor
waited for from intimate things, but you are indignant if it is material your situation they are enquiring
-When you talk to foreigners in Hungarian, but more slowly and aloud, how he should take it.
-When you speak a language that is meant by the world nowhere, only the Hungarians
-When you get floating islands for dessert.
-When the tales do not end in such a way that they live gladly eternally, but that they live gladly while they do not die
-When your granny is threatening with it in order for you not to make faces because you are left so

Sorry if it's unintelligible.:tomaatit:

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The túró rudi=curd cheese inside, choclate outside chocolate

and naturally a "proud-video" from Hungary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0wkokaybWA

[Reserector]

Some of those are very funny. Some are hard to understand, of course. Some are probably only funny if you are Hungarian.

Swearing for 5 minutes without repeating a word is like my first 32 years in New Jersey, USA.

The chocolate covered cheese is something I have not seen.

[balage]

(01-25-2010 08:08 AM)Reserector Wrote:  Some of those are very funny. Some are hard to understand, of course. Some are probably only funny if you are Hungarian.

Swearing for 5 minutes without repeating a word is like my first 32 years in New Jersey, USA.

The chocolate covered cheese is something I have not seen.

But for exapmle:about the christmas. It was clear?

[Reserector]

No. That one is confusing.

[balage]

Maybe interesting.
At us on December 6 the Santa Claus brings a gift. You put out the shoe / boots into the window, and onto a morning there will be choc, sugar in him. If you are bad then birch. But this is only the children's party.
December 24 evenings the Christmas Eve. Little Jézus brings the gift. (my wife and the kids go into a room really, I place the gifts under the tree. I shake the bell on the tree then, and everybody comes in, everybody is glad.)
After it December 25-26 the Christmas. Visiting relatives, gifts...

Before 1999 the sytem was communist regime. They did not like the religion. Because of this on the Christmas Eve not the little one Jesus brought the gift, but the Father Christmas.
December 6 was the Santa Claus, Decembers 24 the Father Christmas.
What was the different? i don't know, but it's over.

Something else: I read on the FS about the money gift. Nothing problem I know it's a custom. But it's unimaginable in my house. I know the money is a rational thing. but the christmas isn't a rational feast.

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