Hungarian Living

Episode 62 Hey there! This is Part 5 of the Icipici Series about Getting Started with Hungarian. Wowee guys, this is Episode 62. I can hardly believe it! Have you checked out our earlier episodes? We cover a lot of ground! So, if you are new to the podcast, you have some catching up to do. Since this is Part 5 of Getting Started with Hungarian, be sure to listen to Episodes 58, 59, 60, and 61. The...

Episode 61 Hey there! This is Part 4 of the icipici edition of the Hungarian Living podcast on Getting Started with Hungarian. So, let me tell you, I have ALL KINDS of resources for learning Hungarian in my office. I have some oldies, like Irka Firka . I have curriculums from Debrecen and Pecs, I have a book and audio recordings from the Foreign Service Institute , and Pimsleur . Did I mention Com...

Episode 60 Hey there! This is Part 3 of the icipici edition of the Hungarian Living podcast on Getting Started with Hungarian. Last episode we discussed several things to think about as you are considering studying Hungarian. But, don’t get frozen into a state of inaction by all of these options. It’s important to know your why – what motivates you. And it is important to know some things about ho...

Episode 59 Szia! This is Part 2 of the icipici edition of the Hungarian Living podcast on Getting Started with Hungarian. Last episode, I asked all sorts of questions about why you might want to learn Hungarian. It is important for you to think about your motivation because that is what will keep you going when things get difficult because things WILL get difficult. I promise you. Learning Hungari...

Episode 58 Hello hello! It’s another icipici edition of the Hungarian Living podcast. This time we are focusing on learning Hungarian! Even if you are currently studying Hungarian, we will cover some interesting material, so stick around! Hungarian is such an interesting language. I grew up hearing it around all around me in church, when my mom was on the phone, at Hungarian events, when people st...

Episode 57 Hey there! This is Part 8 of the icipici edition of the Hungarian Living podcast on Getting Started with Genealogy I hope you have taken some time or plan to set aside some time to work through the other episodes and grab a notebook and maybe even a box to gather your genealogy information in one spot. And you might be thinking to yourself, what’s next? Well, you will find that research...

Episode 56 Hello hello! It’s another icipici edition of the Hungarian Living podcast. If you are just tuning in for the first time, let me to encourage you to go back a few episodes to the first one in this series. Hey there! This is Part 7 of the icipici series of the Hungarian Living podcast on Getting Started with Genealogy. If you have been working through this process with me, you have writte...

Episode 55 Hey there! This is Part 6 of the icipici series of the Hungarian Living Podcast all about Getting Started with Genealogy. Today’s assignment is a little different. I want to encourage you to seek out the oldest member of your blood relatives and ask them the same questions that you had to answer in the Part 1 of the icipici edition of Hungarian Living podcast on Getting Started with Gen...

Episode 54 Welcome back! This is Part 5 – of the icipici podcast on Getting Started with Genealogy. As you keep doing these assignments, you may be noticing that you are gathering some answers, but these may also be bringing some questions to mind. When you have a question, write it down! Maybe your questions have to do with why your family came to the place they settled. Why did they leave their...

Episode 53 Today’s assignment on the Icipici Edition of the Hungarian Living Podcast is for you to track down the birth and death locations of the people you listed in Part I. If you missed that assignment, here is a link to that first podcast in this series. Recently, I have spent time looking around for the burial plots of deceased family members and it is incredibly easy to lose track of where...

Episode 52 Hey there! This is part 3 of the icipici series of the Hungarian Living podcast on Getting Started with Genealogy. I bet you are wondering why we are doing all these icipici assignments. Well, let me tell you. If you have are interested in getting a handle on your genealogy and you don’t know where to start, tackling these icipici assignments will help get you on your way! If you haven’...

Episode 51 Hi! This is part 2 of the icipici series of the Hungarian Living podcast on Getting Started with Genealogy. Today’s assignment is for you to track down the birthdates and death dates for the various people you listed in Part 1. If you missed that assignment, here is a link to that episode Getting Started with Genealogy Part 1. I am terrible with birthdays. If you are the person who abso...

Whether or not you are into genealogy, there are some things you should write down for other generations. If you don’t have kids or siblings, it is still important. Why? Because you probably have first, second, or third cousins or other family members who may need or want the information, they just don’t know it yet. And, let me tell you, no one knows your own family details like you do! But, even...

In this episode of the Hungarian Living podcast I visit with Cindy Dobo of Dobo’s Delights, a bakery based in Piqua, Ohio but that ships around the U.S. Check out their website here: www.dobosdelights.com   Follow them on Facebook: facebook.com/dobosdelights For more episodes of the podcast, check out our website: https://hungarianliving.com/podcast/ To shop The Hungarian Store, visit our website:...

Episode 48 Pictures and Old Letters Recently, I mentioned in one of our newsletters that we went to Pella, Iowa for the funeral of one my husband’s aunts. The Vos side of the family is Dutch. Don is my husband and his grandmother was born in Holland and settled in this sweet Dutch community when she was a child. She grew up speaking Dutch. She married a Dutch guy and had seven children, one of whi...

Broaden your horizons and awareness by attending the 2022 American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA) Conference which will be held April 7-9! The conference is entirely online and it is free! Check out the accepted abstracts in Cultural Studies, Education, History, Political Science, Language, Literature, Music, Folklore, Science, and Economics HERE . AHEA’s website Interested in becoming a m...

This episode is all about Hungarian cooking and recipes and the different ways recipes get passed down. I am including this recipe my mom had written down. I love that this is a recipe that you need to weigh the ingredients! That is the most accurate way to bake. Note: Time and temperature were not written down nor were the number of servings. When I make this, I will have to wing it a bit. But, I...

I have been down the rabbit hole of genealogy for the last two weeks. My biggest weak point with genealogy is that I poke around here and there, as I have time. I don’t have a regular focused time to work on the genealogy piece. So, I dive in and then I back up and then, several months or a year later, I dive back in again. So, here I am in the thick of it again. If you know something about geneal...

Zina Bozzay is the founder of the Hungarian Folk Singing Circle and teaches Hungarian folk songs in a variety of ways. If you want to dig a bit deeper into Hungarian folk music and learn some regional songs, there is are classes coming up! A few years ago, when I was in Hungary with one of our tour groups, I had the opportunity to participate in one of Zina’s classes “live” and it was great fun. Z...

It’s time for the 2022 Let’s Cook Hungarian Challenge! Since 2018, we have hosted this challenge and each year we have added new elements so participants can make a deeper connection with heritage foods each month. We would love to have you join us this year! Each month I give an assigned dish to make — it might be sweet and it might be savory. Here is how it works — I will supply a recipe, but yo...

Enjoy this tale from the collection of my mother’s translations of Hungarian folk tales ready by our daughter, Hannah Vos. King Matthias, he was the ruler of Hungary from 1440-1490. He was the great Hungarian king of the Renaissance and one of the greatest public figures in Hungarian history. One of his prime concerns was the alleviation of the suffering of the serfs, and very often he would disgu...

We have completely overhauled our Magyar Marketing website and changed the name to The Hungarian Store. That is a big change, you can find us at The Hungarian Store This name change has been coming for several years, out of necessity. But our commitment is the same — we want you to discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage in the ways that matter most to you and share it with the ones...

Episode 40 In this episode of the Hungarian Living podcast, I visit with Eva Lazear from the Magyar Club of Dayton, Ohio. This group has been around since the 70’s and is still very active and intentional about welcoming new members! Here are the ways to connect with them: Website: Magyarclubofdayton.org Facebook:  Magyar Club of Dayton Check out our web shop: Magyar Marketing ~ The Hungarian Stor...

Hungarian History & Culture Course Episode 39 In this episode of the Hungarian Living podcast, I visit with Gergely Nemeth about our upcoming Hungarian History and Culture Course.  Gergely is one of our Hungarian language teaching partners and he lives in Miskolc, Hungary. The Hungarian History and Culture course is just a brief overview of Hungary’s history. It is 10 weeks long and the lectur...

Our goal is to help you develop and maintain a meaningful connection with your Hungarian heritage.  We know what a challenge it is to preserve those ancestral ties throughout the generations, so we provide a variety of avenues to help you stay connected in the ways that work for you and the ones you love! We offer Hungarian language, cooking, history, and genealogy classes – but in this podcast we...