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Dirty Hungarian: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang) Kindle Edition

by Mark Adamsbaum (Author), Réka Lengyel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.5 101 ratings

Part of: Dirty Everyday Slang (20 books)

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Improve your vulgar vocabulary with this guide to Hungarian slang, swear words, and more!

Next time you’re in Hungary, or just chatting in Hungarian with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

• cool slang

• funny insults

• explicit sex terms

• raw swear words

Dirty Hungarian teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Hungary: Mi a helyzet? (What’s up?) Állat jó pasi a barátod. (Your boyfriend is hot shit.) Öcsém, ugy betintáztam. (Dude, I’m so wasted.) Mennem kell szarni. (I gotta take a dump.) Menj a halál faszára! (Go fuck yourself!) Lecidázol? (Can I get a blowey?) Szeretném megdöngölni. (I’d love to hit that.) And much more!

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About the Author

Mark Adamsbaum is an actor, photographer and licensed New York City Sightseeing Guide. He lives most of the year in Budapest where he teaches English but returns to his native New York City every summer to play golf, softball in Central Park, and guide wide-eyed tourists through the streets and canyons of Manhattan.

Réka Lengyel is a native of Budapest. She studied psychology, dance, theater, social sciences and literature at university before finally receiving a degree in art history. After spending several years in Australia and Boston, she settled down in her hometown. She currently works as a freelance writer - contributing articles about art, wine and cultural events - and as a part-time bartender in an Irish pub.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0081RLGK2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ulysses Press (June 5, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 5, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2800 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 174 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,516,586 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #19 in Hungarian Language Instruction
- #289 in Cultural, Ethnic & Regional Humor (Kindle Store)
- #423 in Slang & Idiom Reference Books

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Mark Adamsbaum is an actor and English teacher. He lives most of the year in Budapest but returns to his native New York City every summer to play golf and softball in Central Park.

Réka Lengyel is a native of Budapest. She studied psychology, dance and literature at university before finally receiving a degree in art history. After spending several years in Australia and Boston, she settled down in her hometown. She currently works as a freelance writer - contributing articles about art, wine and cultural events - and part-time bartender in an Irish pub.

True story: Several days after moving to a new flat in Budapest, Reka's and my upstairs neighbor, a lovely 80-year-old woman, leaned out of her window, smiled, and called to me: "Pussy! Pussy! Pussy!" Momentarily taken aback at the thought of what she might be offering, I suddenly realized she was saying "Puszi!" the Hungarian word for "kiss," pronounced the same way. Breathing a sign of relief, I shakily waved back, relieved that I wasn't going to be chased around the house Benny Hill style by an aging paramour. And I immediately knew I needed a better knowledge of Hungarian, and so do you, because you never know when you'll be in Budapest, and when an attractive suitor purrs: "Mindig ilyen szexis vagy?" you'll really want to know what he or she is saying.

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EALowe

The real deal

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2015

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This book is great, and the phrases are authentic. Wow, are they authentic. I ran some of them by my Hungarian friends, and they said, yep, that's how we say that. Waiting at a tram stop in Budapest, I heard one teen-aged girl say to another, "Baszd meg," (look it up!) in casual conversation, so, yes, these are genuine expressions. Some of them are more interesting than things we Americans say, such as "Don't let me hear anything good about you!" instead of "See you later, alligator!" It's worth buying for phrases like that alone.

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Katikat62

Nagyon jo!

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2013

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As an Hungarian American who travels to Hungary regularly, I thought this would be a laugh so I bought it for my Kindle.
It is, in fact, a blast of a book, even if you don't know any Hungarian at all. If you do- it is hysterical, I had never heard of some
of the phrases or terms. I ended up buying a hard copy for my family to enjoy at get-togethers. Worth the laugh!

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Julianna

Overall useful, but...

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2024

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Sometimes the English phrases in this book are more vulgar or way more descriptive than the given Hungarian translations. If you can speak Hungarian at an intermediate or advanced level then it's great

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2016

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This book is an absolute hoot; extremely dirty, yes, but also has a lot of useful and fun phrases that will work in plenty of situations outside the bedroom. I have already mastered several that come in handy when dealing with tiresome co-workers, particularly "az osszes munkatarsam komplett idiota." For most other situations when I am extremely annoyed, "kurva szar!" is my new favorite phrase.

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Naggins

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Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2023

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I surprised how good this book is it.

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David McAllister

Just great, useful, entertaining, necessary for learning or traveling

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2012

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The title emphasizes obscenities, which are here, but it's mostly the slang and you need to know how to speak Hungarian as it's spoken. The intro on e.g. Pronunciation is the best I've found without sound recordings. I'm learning in preparation for retiring to BP with my Hungarian wife, and this is my favorite resource. To me the slangy envelope wrapping the lessons is very entertaining and helps the learning. I recommend!

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2017

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Bought this for a bday present for my bf and he's having a blast dropping some slang on my mom.
Learning a language is hard, but at least this makes it fun!

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Kata

Useful book to learn the pronunciation

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2013

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A little bit too dirty, but really creative and useful if you would like to learn the pronunciation of each Hungarian letters.

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Darth_Vodka

I'm Hungarian myself and learned a lot!

Reviewed in Canada on March 26, 2023

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I laughed out loud quite a few times while reading this as well.

Good job explaining Hungarian grammar at a bare bones level. You made it easy enough to remember and apply with a little practise.

A modern look at the more popular slang being slung around is why you buy this book however!

This book along with any Lonely Planet Hungarian phrasebook should be all one needs to get by on business or vacation anywhere in Hungary.

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