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Category Archives: Features
A Legfinomabb Magyar Étel
On a Friday in late autumn, I walked into my ninth grade bilingual classroom to find an interesting query scrawled across the blackboard. “What is disznóvágás in English?” My command of basic Hungarian pronunciation was still rough around the edges, … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Keeping up with the Magyars
Tagged culutre, disznovagas, Hungary, Kaposvar, know your food, omnivores, pig killings, pigs, pork, slaughterhouse magyarorszag, traditions
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Ruminations on the Hungarian Language: Take Two
Due to a potent combination of distraction and procrastination, here is part two of a short series on the Hungarian language, belatedly posted and slightly aged. Interested in reading part one? You’re in luck. Not speaking Korean in Korea was … Continue reading
Nem Beszélek Magyarul: Ruminations on the Hungarian Language
Making my way past the supermarket’s overflowing crates of pale green paprikas and stacked tubs of sauerkraut, I found one phrase sliding through my mind. Continue reading
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Tagged Central Europe, Central European Teaching Program, CETP, Europe, Hungarian, Hungary, Kaposvar, language, learning, Magyarul
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Linden Honey Baguette
A post inspired by our friends at Just a Rough Draft, we turn this week to a recipe made from scratch. Continue reading
Posted in Features, Keeping up with the Magyars
Tagged bread, communication, food, honey, linden trees, rhetoric, slovenia, travel
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A Quick (Belated) Podcast
A podcast documenting our first two months in Hungary. From school, to a celebration, and a memorial. Continue reading
Posted in Features, Keeping up with the Magyars
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Trabbis and Transitions: First impressions of Hungary
Remnants of Soviet communism and European Union sponsored construction projects dot the workaday landscape of Hungary. Continue reading
Posted in Features, Keeping up with the Magyars
Tagged Budapest, First Impressions, Hungary, Kaposvar, Trabant, Trabbi
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Dispatch from the Classroom: First Grade
Don’t Pick the Flowers “Don’t pick flowers,” was the immediate response when my first grade students were asked recently to imagine that our class had been whisked away from our room in Ilsan, South Korea and plopped down on an … Continue reading
Posted in Dispatches from the Classroom, Features, Photo Blog
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Snow Day in Ilsan
After a week spent in the crunchy snow and shiver-inducing temperatures of the Midwest, my winter boots got plenty of use. When it came to packing them for my trip back to Goyang, South Korea, I nearly left them behind, … Continue reading