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| maxval Pentaglot Senior Member Bulgaria maxval.co.nr Joined 5073 days ago 852 posts - 1577 votes  Speaks: Hungarian*, Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew | Message 177 of 1549 02 March 2011 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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There are sites in Hungary about bad translations from English to Hungarian. There are many funny things.
One of my favorites is when in an American science fiction movie there is a problem with the spaceship, and the spaceships commander asks help by shouting "mayday, mayday!". The Hungarian translator obviously has never heard about "mayday" and tried to figure out what its meaning. The final version: "majális, majális!", "majális" was a Hungarian folk custom, celebration of the 1st day of May. People couldnt figure our why the ships captain doesnt ask for HELP in the movie, is he crazy to talking about a folk feast when there is real problem? :-) Other movie was a British movie, but there was a German girl too. The movie was in English, but in one moment when the British guy wants to kiss the German girl, she shouts in German "nein, nein". The Hungarian translator translated this part as "kilenc, kilenc". :-) Edited by maxval on 02 March 2011 at 2:15pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5349 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 178 of 1549 02 March 2011 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
That's very interesting and nice information for me. Interesting because of the history and nice because you say that I don't need to study those forms! Another false friend correction for you - When you wrote 'actual', the word you really needed was 'current' or 'modern-day'. Actual and actually are like eventually as very common mistakes made by Slavs. I guess it's your Bulgarian again. The real translation of 'actually' is 'vlastně' in Czech, maybe there's something similar in Bulgarian? A similar synonym would be 'in reality' or 'in fact'. 'Actual' means something like 'the real' as in the way I started this paragraph. Edited by hribecek on 02 March 2011 at 5:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Kisfroccs Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5409 days ago 388 posts - 549 votes Speaks: French*, German*, EnglishC1, Swiss-German, Hungarian Studies: Italian, Serbo-Croatian | Message 179 of 1549 02 March 2011 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Hribecek, sorry for reposting this question, but I want to be part of the TAC team. Can I take my current logbook and change the title ? Or it is better to start a new log ?
köszi :) As I am leaving for Hungary this weekend, I will start my log afterwards. Kisfröccs 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| The Stephen Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5052 days ago 65 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Czech, Hungarian | Message 180 of 1549 03 March 2011 at 5:11am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Jó napot, itt TheStephen.
Nekem magyarul egy nagyon nehéz nyelv, de igyekszem. Stephen névem, és Amerikai vagyok. Magyarul tanulok, és német is. Magyarul tanulok, mert nekem Magyarul tetszik, és kérek egy napon Magyarországre megy. Hello, it's TheStephen. Hungarian is a very difficult language to me, but I'm trying. I'm called Stephen, and I'm American. I study Hungarian as well as German. I study Hungarian because it is very interesting to me and I want to go to Hungary some day. Well, there's the first thing I've ever written in Hungarian. I don't have any experience with longer sentences like that last one, so I'd imagine my word order is horrible (among many other things of course). But I tried to go a little beyond my skill level in order to learn more. Hopefully Maxval won't mind correcting it too much. :) Edited by The Stephen on 03 March 2011 at 5:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| maxval Pentaglot Senior Member Bulgaria maxval.co.nr Joined 5073 days ago 852 posts - 1577 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew | Message 181 of 1549 03 March 2011 at 7:26am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Nekem a magyar egy nagyon nehéz nyelv, de igyekszem.
Stephen a nevem, és amerikai vagyok.
Magyarul tanulok, és németül is.
Magyarul tanulok, mert nekem a magyar tetszik, és szeretnék egy napon Magyarországra menni. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| maxval Pentaglot Senior Member Bulgaria maxval.co.nr Joined 5073 days ago 852 posts - 1577 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew | Message 182 of 1549 03 March 2011 at 8:25am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Something important that many people seems not to know! The name of the Hungarian language in Hungarian is "magyar", and NOT "magyarul". The -ul/-ül is an ending used for Essivus-Modalis (state or condition). The ending -ul/-ül is used always with languages, but not only with languages. For example: Kutyául érzem magam. (I feel like a dog.) When saying "I like Hungarian", you need to use the Accusative ending, as this is a direct object, so it is "Szeretem a magyart", you cannot use Essivus-Modalis ending! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5349 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 183 of 1549 03 March 2011 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Hi Kisfröccs As far as I know you can change the title of your logbook, The Stephen did it so it must be possible. Other than that you only have to go to TAC challenge 2011 thread and tell Ellasevia (or maybe pm him) that you want to be part of Hungarian Team Ő. You'll be a valuable team member, along with Lapislazuli, The Stephen and myself. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5349 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 184 of 1549 03 March 2011 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Isten hozta The Stephen! (is that the informal welcome greeting too? I wanted the informal one) Örülök, hogy már itt írsz. Nekem ez a thread nagyon fontos, mert tudunk gyakorolni a magyart. (I would have written 'a magyar nyelvet' until I read your message Maxval, so is this correct?) Remélem, hogy majd itt sokat írsz, mert a több ember a jobb! Örülök is, mert Team Ő-ben vagy és kell használnunk sok ezt a nyelvet. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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