Hungarian star outraged because she could not order in Hungarian in a Budapest café

Daily News Hungary ^ | 7/18/2022 | Hetzmann Mercédesz

[Right Wing Vegan]

The former reality TV star was furious that the staff was not speaking Hungarian in a Budapest café. Merci did not excel in English in the 10th series of Való Világ, but she has reportedly made improvements since then. The young girl thinks that these days she would have no problem ordering in English but finds it unacceptable that she cannot use her mother tongue in one of Budapest’s busiest cafés

[maro]

Would Dr. Jill Biden?

[Right Wing Vegan]

Gottdangz so open borders rhetoric now adds in “post-COVID era” to its “native worker disappearance” and other spurious justifications!

[dfwgator]

[NonValueAdded]

well played!

[dfwgator]

Sounds like they are a "Mad Hungarian"....

[dfwgator]

Actually I found it fairly easy to get around in Poland, I tried to speak Polish whenever I could, it’s actually not difficult to achieve “Tourist Level Polish”. But yes, Hungarian is a whole other story.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

It is the exception to the rule to go to a country where you CANNOT speak English.

Especially in tourist locations.

Sure. But it can't be the expectation that everyone in every nation speaks only in a foreign language to cater to tourists. We certainly do not do so in the US, despite the fact that languages like Spanish, French, Mandarin/Cantonese, Hindi, etc. are spoken by huge numbers of tourists.

I expect the people who deal with customers in restaurants and other businesses in the US to be able to speak to me in clear English. I don't think it's unreasonable for folks in Hungary to expect people who deal with customers there to speak Hungarian.

[dfwgator]

One place I really struggled recently was Italy, they don’t have Uber there and in some cases the only way to reserve a taxi is to call, and it was very difficult to talk to anyone in English to try to reserve a taxi.

[ccmay]

Well, Magyar is fiendishly difficult. I knew French and German before learning polski and it still was very difficult, yet I couldn’t find any linkages in Magyar. Completely alien.

Hungarian (Magyar) is a Finno-Ugric language distantly related to Finnish, Estonian, Sami (Lapp), and some isolated indigenous languages of the Russian Far North. All of the other languages you mentioned, as well as English, are from the Indo-European language family and will have mutual cognates, most commonly showing similarities between basic words like numbers, colors, animals, foods, and familial relationships. Between the Finno-Ugric and Indo-European language families, however, there is not even the most trivial connection, other than loan-words from the modern era.

[T.B. Yoits]

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[lee martell]

Yes,if they could handle my Grade School Spanish.
I have done it a couple of times in this area of Ca.

[JimRed]

Were the hired help all non-natives?

[Rebelbase]

"Golly "

[xp38]

I always thought it was pronounced gouyash with a long a but I’m only half Hungarian and while I can speak the language I haven’t had much practice lately.

[Boogieman]

Probably because it’s almost a language isolate. It’s related to Finnish and Estonian, but who speaks those? So it might as well be a completely alien language compared to most European languages, that fall in the Romance, Germanic, or Slavic supergroups.

[Boogieman]

“Basque which is a stone age language that somehow survived”

Might even be a remnant of the Neanderthals’ language!

[Cronos]

True. But it went further than that, I couldn’t get the grammar even

[FLT-bird]

Gool-yash with a soft “a”.

Actually they call it “Gulyas Leves” (pronounced Lev-esh = soup)