Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Episode 115: Our Hungarian Language Classes I want to tell you something honest — learning Hungarian as an adult has humbled me more than almost anything else I’ve taken on. This is a language that doesn’t share roots with English, or French, or Spanish — it just does its own beautiful, complicated thing. And yet, every single word I learn feels like I’m unlocking a little more of my own story, a little more of what my great-grandparents carried with them when they left their villages behind. One thing I have learned is that it matters what I tell myself about […]

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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Episode 114: Heritage Connections Monthly Hello again, my friends! If you caught our cooking episode, you already know I’ve been away on quite the season of travel — Virginia, DC, and two wonderful weeks in Hungary. I won’t repeat the whole story here, but I will say — I am excited to be back to the podcast! As I mentioned on the last episode, having these online get togethers are an important way to bridge those gaps between live, in person events.— Heritage Connections are our monthly gathering, completely free, completely virtual, where this whole Hungarian family comes together, wherever you’re […]

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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

This is episode 113 Hello, my friends! It has been a while since you’ve heard my voice on here, and I want you to know, it wasn’t for lack of missing you. First, it’s been a season of travel for us. We were at the Hungarian Festival in McLean, Virginia back in April. We were also honored to attend the America250 Gala at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. And we closed off that trip with a visit to the Consulate. Then we were with our amazing tour group in Hungary for about two weeks. We’ve been out there, in […]

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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Hi, it’s Liz. This episode is special to me. It’s a Christmas story my mom, Elizabeth Szabo, wrote – and I wanted to bring it back during the holidays because this is the time of year when we think about family and traditions. My mom wasn’t perfect. But she understood something important: you don’t have to be perfect to create meaningful traditions. You don’t have to do it all, and you don’t have to do it flawlessly. You just need to make the effort to connect. She started Magyar Marketing back in 1988 because she saw that it was getting […]

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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Hello there, it’s Liz. And welcome back to The Hungarian Living Podcast. It’s officially Advent and that means we are headed into the Christmas season, and I wanted to bring back one of my favorite episodes about a tradition that’s really special to me – Mikulás, or St. Nicholas Day, which is December 6th. For kids growing up in Hungary as well as other European countries, the evening of December 5th is always exciting. I remember when we were living in Budapest in 1973. I was 8 years old and It’s my first memory of Mikulas nap. I shined my […]

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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Episode 110 Hello friends, and welcome back to The Hungarian Living Podcast! I’m Liz, and today we’re talking about something that’s very close to my heart – the tradition of name days. And if you are listening to this episode on November 19th then you are hearing it on the name day for Elizabeth or Erzsébet, as celebrated in Hungary! Before we dive in, I want to share a memory with you. For years after I moved away from home, my phone would ring on November 19th. I’d pick up, and there would be my mom’s voice: “Boldog névnapot, Liz!” […]

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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Episode 109 This is another one of the folktales that my mom translated in the 1970s. My mom translated many Hungarian folktales into English. This project is designed to preserve her words for her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. This recording is by Landon, her grandson. Near the edge of the Bakony Forest lived an old woodcutter. It was a hard living for an old man, and he was very poor. The old woodcutter had little he could call his own, except a daughter. Kati was as clever as she was beautiful. In the village of Bakony, she was called […]

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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

WHEN IS A STUDENT A KING? Episode 108 This is a Hungarian folk tale translated by my mom, Elizabeth A. Szabo, and read by her grandson, Landon. King Matthias had many students working for him in the palace. One of these students, named Marton Nagy, was out travelling in one of the villages of Hungary. When he felt tired he stopped at an inn and knocked at the door. “My name is Marton Nagy,” said the student, “and I work in the King’s court. Could you give me a room for a night?” Now many people had heard that the […]

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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Hi there! It’s Liz. We have so many great opportunities for learning coming your way this fall through The Hungarian Store! In this episode I’ll do a recap of our recent Hungarian Heritage Expo and also talk about our upcoming classes. This is episode 107 Newsletter sign up! Intro As you know, we are all about encouraging you to discover, celebrate, and share Hungarian heritage. We try to provide as many opportunities as possible. Some are free and some have a charge. Believe me, we would love to just do everything for free, but we are not funded by any […]

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Hungarian Living Podcast — Discover, celebrate, and share your Hungarian heritage!

Episode 106 In this special episode Landon reads a folk tale his grandmother, Elizabeth A. Szabo, translated into English way before he was even a twinkle in MY eye! THE KING’S GOLDEN LAMB Long ago, in the kingdom of Hungary, lived a King named Matthias. The people of Hungary loved their king because he was such a good king and very, very just. The king of Prussia had heard that King Matthias owned a golden-fleeced lamb, and so together with his daughter, a beautiful princess, he decided to pay a visit to King Matthias. “We hear you own a beautiful, […]

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