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Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby
My dad is off the boat from Czech Republic, came here 30 years ago, so obviously speaking Czech his whole life, and with any Slavic based language, he can understand most Polish, Slovak, etc. Even can get by with Russian since he spent a year in service in Moscow.
However, and this is no offense to Csulik at all, since I am very impressed at his English speaking (better than a lot of immigrants here in the US!), but I asked my old man one time if he understood any Hungarian, and he told me word for word as follows:
"Hungarian? Now I understand a few different ones, but that's a wild language, unlike any other in Europe. I don't even know if gypsies understand it!"
Obviously no offense to be stirred, just what I remember from my dad when I was younger.
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With all due respect to your Dad and You, but his words, if U wrote them correctly, have a certain degree of offensive language. First, Hungarian language belongs to unique Hungarian-Finnish group, indeed unique group of languages in Europe. Second, it's not "wild" as your Dad allegedly state, but unique-google smth about Hungary, look at its capital city-Budapest, learn about Austrian-Hungarian Kingdom (famous K & K Monarchy), and will see what a level of power, culture and everything else Hungary has had and still has. If your father really fled behind an "iron curtain", the same where socialist Hungary was till the late 80/ies, then he must know what I am talking about.
Third,, "gipsy"??? Sorry, but- Roma people, or-Gipsy, are OK, never "gipsy". Do U know what simbol is on Roma national flag? Wheel!!!! A sign of movement, of an ultimate freedom of movement, unchained... Fourth-why Roma people, should or must, or-are expected-by default, to understand Hungarian, as your Dad, allegedly implied? Why almost nobody understands Roma language? Sar e Roma, babo!
Best regards (Czech-s pozdravem, Hungarian-üdvözlettel) from Bosnia & Herzegovina (part of former Yugoslavia),from a member of this forum who still remembers very well the situation before the fall of iron curtain, and Berlin wall, and/ more important/ felt on my own skin..the arrival of the democracy, guided by the USA....